Jasna Russo

Jasna Russo comes from the former Yugoslavia and is based in Berlin, Germany, where she works as an independent researcher. She is a long-term activist in the international user/survivor movement. Jasna has an MA in clinical psychology and has worked on both survivor-controlled and collaborative research projects, including several large-scale international studies. Her articles have been published in anthologies and journals in Germany and the UK. In 2011 Jasna was the main organiser of the international conference “Searching for a Rose Garden. Fostering Real Alternatives to Psychiatry” which inspired this book. Her main interest is in exploring the accumulated knowledge of people treated as mad or ‘mentally ill’ and whether we can connect across the globe to jointly develop our own, first-person defined model of madness.