Stephen Jan Ticktin (born 1946) is a retired

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psychiatrist, therapist and lecturer, and a notable figure in the

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movement. After earning his medical degree from the

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in 1973, Ticktin became personal assistant to anti-psychiatry movement leader David Cooper, travelling with him through Europe, North America, South America and Mexico on his lecture tours (1972–1976). He also studied with the

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and apprenticed in existential therapy with

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. In 1983, Ticktin obtained an MRCPsych in Psychiatry through the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London, and in the course of the decades during which Ticktin made the UK his home, he helped to found the British Network of Alternatives to Psychiatry and the Supportive Psychotherapy Association. He joined the editorial collective of ''

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'' in 1987 and has published articles in a number of British psychiatry journals. Ticktin has also been a visiting lecturer and supervisor at the

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School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, and at The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Schiller International University, where he worked with

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. In 2004, he returned to Canada where he saw patients in private practice and was also adjunct faculty at the Living Institute in Toronto.

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

Sources

Biography
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Society For Laingian Studies website

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