MindFreedom International: Mental Health Rights and Alternative Mental Health

United independent activism for human rights and humane alternatives in mental health. Join MindFreedom Membership today, and get your new member packet with journal and brochures! Click HERE NOW to join, renew or donate to MindFreedom International! MFI Featured News MindFreedom International has hired Ronald Bassman, Psychiatric Survivor and Licensed Psychologist to be its Executive…

Massachusetts Comment on Rotenberg Torture? Silence.

MFI Sponsor Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) proved that a mental disability facility in Massachusetts, the Judge Rotenberg Center, is torturing young people diagnosed with psychiatric and other mental disabilities using extreme and repeated pain from electrical jolts. So what is the response from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, via their Dept. of Mental Health General…

Opal Network Meeting: 31 May 2011

Calendar item and downloadable flyer about Opal Network meeting in Eugene, Oregon public library on Tuesday, 31 May 2011, at 2:00 pm. The topic: Mental Health, Police and Criminal Justice in Lane County.  Downloadable PDF of Opal Network Flyer for 5 May 2011 You can download a one-page PDF flyer [432 K] about the upcoming…

Zyprexa, Secrets & Eli Lilly

Filed Under: Zyprexakills “Netroots” makes end run: Eli Lilly seeks to keep documents about how they used fraud in marketing and pushing their powerful psychiatric drug Zyprexa, but grassroots Internet campaign resists. Hopefully everyone has already seen that we have a news item on the MindFreedom web site about how the NY Times covered Eli…

Text from MindFreedom Truth in Mental Health Brochure

Here is a plain text version of the MindFreedom “Truth Injection” brochure to bust myths in the mental health system. Accessible MindFreedom International Truth Brochure: Does Your Mental Health System Need A TRUTH Injection? [Image: A hypodermic needle labeled “truth” injecting the round top of a building with a sign saying “Mental Health.”] Your local…