Lynne Salvi arrived at the MindFreedom office in the Summer of 2011, and attended quite a few meetings. She was passionate about speaking out regarding her abuse in the mental health system. She admitted to having severe mental and emotional problems, but said she could not find the help she wanted in the traditional system. Lynne died when her car went off a bridge in Portland on 23 Sept. 2011.
Long-time MindFreedom member and supporter Al Siebert has died at the age of 75. Al was well known as a psychologist, author and lecturer on the topic of resiliency, and surviving even the most traumatic of events. His books on resiliency and mental health alternatives were very popular. What is less known is that Al as a graduate student experienced the psychiatric system and a diagnosis of “schizophrenia,” but after a few days escaped the institution, and went on to his successful career. Once he was established, Al later self-published a little-known book about how he personally survived the psychiatric system.
Kate Waterbury was a long-time supporter of MindFreedom International, and a friend of MFI director, David Oaks. Kate supported wholistic and empowering care not only in the mental health system, and in health care in general.
Ruby Rogers, made famous in the landmark case Rogers v. Okin that helped to establish informed consent laws for psychiatric patients, has died. She was 71.
A friend reflects on the anniversary of the death of David Hilton of New Hampshire, a national leader in the mental health consumer/psychiatric survivor movement. David was also a long-time supporter of MindFreedom, and was a solidarity hunger-striker in the 2003 MindFreedom Fast for Freedom in Mental Health. .
Thomas Szasz, MD, dissident psychiatrist, died at age 92 
