Stephen Jan Ticktin (born 1941) is a Canadian psychiatrist, therapist and lecturer and a prominent figure in theanti-psychiatry movement.
After earning his medical degree from theUniversity of Toronto in 1973, Ticktin became personal assistant to anti-psychiatry movement leaderDavid Cooper, travelling with him through Europe, North America, South America and Mexico on his lecture tours (1972–1976). He also studied with thePhiladelphia Association and apprenticed in existential therapy withR.D. Laing. In 1983, Ticktin obtained an MRCPsych in Psychiatry through theRoyal College of Psychiatrists in London, and in the course of the decades during which Ticktin made the UK his home, he helped to found theBritish Network of Alternatives to Psychiatry and theSupportive Psychotherapy Association.
He joined the editorial collective ofAsylum in 1987 and has published articles in a number of British psychiatry journals. Ticktin has also been a visiting lecturer and supervisor at theRegent's College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, and at TheNew School of Psychotherapy and Counselling atSchiller International University, where he worked withEmmy van Deurzen. In 2004, he returned to Canada where he saw patients in private practice and was also adjunct faculty at theLiving Institute in Toronto.
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