[3] In 2003, Burstow founded the Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault, an organization which campaigned to ban electroshock therapy.
[3] In 2010, she worked with Ontario New Democratic Party MPP Cheri DiNovo to introduce a private member’s bill to end public funding of electroshock therapy.
[5] She wrote several nonfiction books, including Psychiatry And The Business Of Madness (2015), as well as the novels The House On Lippincott (2006) and The Other Mrs. Smith (2017).
[4] In 2016, the University of Toronto launched the Bonnie Burstow Scholarship in Antipsychiatry, which is awarded annually to students at the OISE conducting research in anti-psychiatry.
[8][9] The initiative outraged some faculty with University of Toronto psychiatry professor telling the New York Times: "They’re trying to claim that there’s no such thing as psychiatric illness, and I think she did a lot of damage with the publicity she got surrounding that,” adding that the university, “made a big mistake in setting up a special scholarship fund in her name; it’s an anti-psychiatry fund that legitimizes the movement.”[3] Burstow died at the age of 74 on January 4, 2020.