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Join us for OCCUPY THE APA on May 19th, 2013 in San Francisco, CA!

(Published: May 14, 2013 01:00 AM)
MindFreedom International, the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) and the California Client Action Workgroup are sponsoring a protest of the American Psychiatric Association’s 2013 annual conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco — an Occupy Psychiatry Event
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Alternative Mental Health Radio by MindFreedom International: Lise Zumwalt

(Published: May 10, 2013 04:48 PM)
Alternative Mental Health Radio by MindFreedom International: Lise Zumwalt
May 11, 2013...Join MindFreedom host, SOPHIE FAUGHT and activist filmmaker, LISE ZUMWALT to talk about forced drugging and her first feature film, "That's Crazy," which documents one man's decision to take his treatment into his own hands, defying a commitment order and an order to treat while searching for recovery. LIVE on Saturday, May 11th, at 2 pm ET, 11 am PT. We'll be taking your calls at (646) 595-2125 .
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**ACTION** Stop the spread of forced drugging! SAY NO TO TEXAS HOUSE BILL 2212

(Published: Apr 19, 2013 11:45 AM)
**ACTION** Stop the spread of forced drugging! SAY NO TO TEXAS HOUSE BILL 2212
The proponents of expanded forced psychiatry have already lobbied for outpatient forced drugging laws in almost every state in the union. They’ve succeeded in bringing forced drugging into the homes of those targeted by such laws in most states. It is with great alarm that we have learned that the next domino to fall may be Texas.
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How YOU can celebrate Creative Maladjustment Week

(Published: Apr 04, 2013 11:22 AM)
How YOU can celebrate Creative Maladjustment Week
MindFreedom releases a new guide to celebrating the inaugural Creative Maladjustment Week. Download it now!
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Global News

Norwegian Alleges Forced Psychiatric Drugs, Lock-Up

(Published: Sep 12, 2012 02:55 PM)
Norwegian Alleges Forced Psychiatric Drugs, Lock-Up
Andre Dahl Jensen of Norway says his demands are simple: "Help me end this nightmare I am living. I demand human rights, mutual respect, freedom and an end to the persistent persecution of people by psychiatry."
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Mad Pride Toronto 2012: A Celebration of Madness

(Published: Jun 25, 2012 01:20 PM)
Mad Pride Toronto 2012: A Celebration of Madness
Toronto was just one of the places that held Mad Pride 2012 events, but what an amazing collection of events over five days! This is inspiring for you to hold your own Mad Pride event. Any time is good, but think "July 2013," because that's mad Pride Month!
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USA News

Paula J. Caplan and the “DSM 9” call upon the APA to stop the harm of psychiatric diagnosis

(Published: Dec 28, 2012 12:10 PM)
Paula J. Caplan and the “DSM 9” call upon the APA to stop the harm of psychiatric diagnosis
Paula J. Caplan, dissident psychologist and human rights activist, is working with a group of psychiatric survivors and allies to officially call upon the American Psychiatric Association [APA] to stop the harm that often results from psychiatric diagnosis.
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ACTION - USA Senate Fails to Pass Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

(Published: Dec 05, 2012 08:20 PM)
ACTION - USA Senate Fails to Pass Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The USA Senate has failed to ratify this important global disability treaty, created in the United Nations with advice from hundreds of advocates, including a MindFreedom International team. Let your senator know how you feel about their votes!
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Recently published articles of interest

Researcher, former proponent of compulsory outpatient treatments says they “don’t work” and calls for moratorium.

(Published: Apr 19, 2013 11:53 AM)
Results from the largest randomized, double-blind trial of compulsory outpatient treatment yet conducted show that the intervention — while dramatically increasing the amount of time an individual is subjected to compulsory medical interventions (and deprived of essential liberties) — does not reduce hospital readmissions or improve social/clinical outcomes when compared to inpatient hospitalization.

Kate Millett, 'Pillar of the Movement,' Inducted into Women's Hall of Fame

(Published: Mar 14, 2013 04:44 PM)
Feminst icon Kate Millett, a long time Bowery resident and author of “Sexual Politics,” a seminal book on oppressive gender roles in literature, received word yesterday afternoon that she and eight other American women, including House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and the late Republican First Lady Betty Ford, have been named as inductees into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca, N.Y., site of the first women’s rights convention in 1848.

U.N. Rapporteur on Torture Calls for Ban on Forced Treatment

(Published: Mar 14, 2013 02:35 PM)
In a statement to a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 4, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment called for a ban on forced psychiatric interventions including forced drugging, shock, psychosurgery, restraint and seclusion, and for repeal of laws that allow compulsory mental health treatment and deprivation of liberty based on disability, including when it is motivated by “protection of the person or others.”

Dr. Peter Breggin: Jury Awards $1.5 Million in Suicide Malpractice Suit

(Published: Jan 10, 2013 01:23 PM)
Dr. Peter Breggin, author of "Medication Madness" and "Toxic Psychiatry" (among other books) was the medical expert in a successful suicide malpractice suit involving the antidepressants Paxil and Effexor.

Anger over patient's electro-shock therapy at Tolworth Hospital

(Published: Oct 24, 2012 08:15 PM)
A British newspaper reports about an Islamic family's "disgusted" allegations that a family member was given involuntary electroshock over her and her family's wishes.

Dr. Thomas Szasz, Psychiatrist Who Led Movement Against His Field, Dies at 92

(Published: Sep 12, 2012 01:30 PM)
The New York Times obituary on death of psychiatrist, author, academic and critic of his own mental health profession, Thomas Szasz, MD.

The end of the psychopharmacological revolution

(Published: Aug 21, 2012 05:45 PM)
The editor of a prestigious mental health industry publication - the British Journal of Psychiatry - claims it is time to "call for an end" to the psychiatric drug "revolution" that he said began in 1952. He mentions problems with the neuroleptic drugs (also called 'antipsychotics') but note he leaves out the lobotomy effect of structural brain changes such as frontal lobe shrinkage, well known to be linked to long-term high-dosage neuroleptics.

Debate About Mental Health in Irish Times: Mary Maddock May Get a Last Word

(Published: Aug 03, 2012 03:20 PM)
Psychiatric survivor activist and author Mary Maddock, co-founder of MindFreedom Ireland, may get one of the last words in a debate in one of Ireland's main newspapers about the psychiatric industry. Mary had a letter published about her personal decision to successfully quit psychiatric drugs. Said Mary, "It is very difficult to get a letter published in the Irish Times. I couldn't believe they even included MindFreedom Ireland!"

From Ativan to Acupuncture: Mental Health Alternatives

(Published: Jul 25, 2012 12:07 PM)
Long-time national mental health peer leader, Laura Van Tosh, spoke in Eugene, Oregon about her quest for well-being, including quitting her psychiatric drugs. This reporter covered the event, which took place at the Lane County, Oregon's mental health consumer/survivor advisory council.

David Oaks Gives Lecture and Interview at Oberlin College

(Published: Jun 06, 2012 07:30 PM)
MindFreedom International director David Oaks gave a lecture at Oberlin College on May 2, 2012, calling for a revolution in mental health. He was also interviewed that morning by The Oberlin Review.
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Levi Chambers: Young adult leader

Levi Chambers is a sociology student, organizer, and psychiatric survivor working toward mental health justice in Olympia, Washington. He said: "I am a member of MFI because the organization fights for my rights more effectively than groups with funding from big pharma. My family and I stopped supporting those groups, and have been MFI fans ever since." Levi believes in community mental support, non-pathological and non-chemical treatment alternatives, and declines to use psychiatric labels. Currently a 22-year-old college student involved in the Icarus Project and a member of MindFreedom International, Levi hopes to become a researcher who works to gain scientific acknowledgment for alternative recovery models. If you would like to work with Levi to fight discrimination, build alternatives to conventional psychiatry, and demand a non-violent revolution in mental health in Washington State, please contact him.
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