Asylum Magazine
@asylummagazine
The radical mental health magazine. Been around since 1986. Distributed by PCCS Books Sharing does not equal endorsement. Email: editors@asylummagazine.org Website:
An important figure in mental health politics in Greece passed away this morning. He was very ill for nearly a year. Theodoros Megalooikonomou, a radical psychiatrist, devoted his whole career to the struggle for a mental health system underpinned by social justice and Basaglia's philosophy. RIP ❤️😥
The Summer 2026 Issue of Asylum magazine is out💜 *Read 3 articles free of charge *Register for the online launch of the Issue on Monday 29th June asylummagazine.org/2026/06/asyl...
Brilliant cartoon on being blind to the whole object; not appreciating the context and complexity A good metaphor for simplistic/ unifactorial approaches to mental health issues
Brilliant Intersectional Protest Zine by @dollysen.bsky.social
The Summer 2026 Issue of the @asylummagazine.bsky.social is out Thank you for your contributions and your support 😊 Special thanks to Nicola Field and Max Pogrzeba for their help with the design & the overall look of the magazine 💜❤️
In the wake of yesterday's local elections results in the UK, this is extremely timely 🙁
youtu.be/emJKtAljAgs @asylummagazine.bsky.social poetry editor, Janine Booth, reading survivor poetry (poems by Peter Campbell, survivor activist and poet) At the launch of a book on Peter Campbell's life and work
Two members of @asylummagazine.bsky.social Collective speaking @ event celebrating 40 years of Asylum in Athens, Greece on 18th April The focus was Asylum as a space of resistance, reflection & dialogue The event was organised by a Greek mental health activist group Asylum is collaborating with ❤️
Two members of the @asylummagazine.bsky.social editorial group will be speaking at at event celebrating the 40 years of Asylum in Athens, Greece, on Saturday 18 April ❤️
asylummagazine.org/2026/03/edit... The 40th year anniversary issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social is out Read here the reflective Editorial by @hspandler.bsky.social, the Asylum Editor-in-Chief
Book Launch 💥💥 A really important book for the psychiatric survivor/Mad movement ❤️ Online launch on Friday 17th April 2026, 5pm GMT
@asylummagazine.bsky.social is celebrating its 40th year this year ❤️ The anniversary Spring 2026 Issue is out! We are having its online launch on 23 March at 6pm GMT Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Come and join us❤️
Happy Xmas from the @asylummagazine.bsky.social editorial group❤️ Thank you for supporting @asylummagazine.bsky.social ❤️
A reminder about the online launch of the Winter 2025 @asylummagazine.bsky.social Issue Join us for the online launch on Friday, 19 December at 6pm UK time You can register here: bit.ly/Asylumlaunch... All welcome ❤️
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ambivalent-a... @hspandler.bsky.social, @kpoursanidou.bsky.social & Sonia Soans are discussing @asylummagazine.bsky.social as a mental health activism space where contradictions can co-exist in our chapter included in the "Ambivalent Activism" edited book
Artwork from the website of Mad in Greece madingreece.org/category/%CF...
@asylummagazine.bsky.social is at Sheffield Transformed Festival today, Sunday 30th November If you are around, come to say hello 💜❤️
Front pages of UK newspapers following the budget announcement: featuring the decisive rhetoric of "strivers vs skivers" and encouraging the public to blame disabled and low-income people (in receipt of welfare benefits) for structural problems/collapses @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social
The Winter 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social will be out soon ❤️ With a Feature on AI and mental health among other timely material