Peter Stastny

Peter Stastny is a psychiatrist, documentary film-maker, cultural critic and innovator, who has made contributions to the fields of mental health care, the treatment of psychosis, the representation of madness in film and visual art, among sundry other topics. 

Since the early 1980s he has been involved as a critic and collector in the intersection between art, madness and psychiatric intervention. His documentary and experimental films have straddled the boundary between topical representation and historical redemption.

Currently he is consultant to several federally funded system-transforming mental health projects in New York and Latin America; developing a documentary film on the waning of the Holocaust generation; and building a living archive for his many known and less known interventions.  He is a founding member of the International Network of Alternatives toward Recovery (INTAR), which is about to hold its 7th interdisciplinary conference in Liverpool, UK (www.intar.org).