Info The psychiatric profession is debating the psychiatric survivors movement. June 2006 Psychiatric Services Cover October 2006 Over a six month period in three issues, an officialmagazine of the American Psychiatric Association called Psychiatric Serivces held a heated debateand analysis about the politics and history of the psychiatric survivors movement. June 2006: The original essay…
Info The psychiatric profession is debating the psychiatric survivors movement. June 2006 Psychiatric Services Cover October 2006 Over a six month period in three issues, an officialmagazine of the American Psychiatric Association called Psychiatric Serivces held a heated debateand analysis about the politics and history of the psychiatric survivors movement. June 2006: The original essay…
Info MFI Shield issued a public alert that young musician and artist Gabe Hadd was under court-ordered involuntary outpatient psychiatric drugging in Michigan. Members in Colorado offered personal support. Gabe successfully escaped over state lines and evaded the forced psychiatric drugging in his own home. You can hear Gabe’s music at www.myspace.com/gabrielhadd. Click to view…
Info BBC News: Professors say psychiatric use of the term “schizophrenia” ought to be abolished because it’s unscientific. American Psychiatric Association members literally vote in and out labels from the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual. BBC – 10 October 2006 The term schizophrenia should be abolished, experts have said. They claim the category falsely groups a…
FAST FOR FREEDOM IN MENTAL HEALTH NEWS RELEASE – 21 August 2003 Hunger Strikers Demand Human Rights in Mental Health: American Psychiatric Association Replies PASADENA, CALIF: On Sat., 16 August 2003 six “psychiatric survivors” from throughout theUnited States arrived in Pasadena, Calif. and began a hunger strike to press for human rights and choice in…