Stephen Ticktin

Stephen Jan Ticktin (born 1941) is a Canadian psychiatrist, therapist and lecturer, and a prominent figure in the anti-psychiatry movement.

After earning his medical degree in Toronto, Ticktin became personal assistant to anti-psychiatry movement leader David Cooper, travelling with him around the world on his lecture tours. He also studied at the Philadelphia Association and apprenticed with R.D. Laing. Ticktin lived in Britain for several decades and helped to found the British Network of Alternatives to Psychiatry and the Supportive Psychotherapy Association.

He joined the editorial collective of Asylum Magazine in 1987 and has published articles in a number of British psychiatry journals. Ticktin has also been a visiting lecturer at the Regent's College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and Schiller International University, where he worked with Emmy van Deurzen. In 2004, he returned to Canada where he is currently in private practice.

Publications

 * "The User's Voice in Mental Health Services" in Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, Vol. 5 (3) 1991
 * "Friendship, Therapy, Camaraderie: An Existential Approach to Therapy With Young People" in Case Studies in Existential Psychotherapy, Simon Du Plock, Ed. (Wiley, Chichester, 1997)
 * "R. D. Laing, A Tribute" in R.D. Laing, Creative Destroyer, Bob Mullan, Ed. (Cassell, London, 1997)
 * "R.D. Laing's Divided Tooth" in Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, Vol. 5
 * "'Ticktin's Syndrome', or, The Post-Psychiatric Post Confusional State" in Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, Vol.3 (2)
 * "Brother Beast: A Personal Mémoir of David Cooper" in Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, Vol. 1 (3).
 * Review of "R.D. Laing, A Biography, by Adrian Laing" (London: Peter Owen, 1994) in Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
 * "R.D. Laing, A Tribute", in Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, Vol. 4 (2) 1990