These are items gathered by MindFreedom about mental health care, the psychiatric profession, advocacy, humane alternatives and more. This information is gathered for public education, and does not necessarily reflect the position of MindFreedom and its board. Nothing on MindFreedom.org or in our material should be construed as an attempt to offer or render a medical or legal opinion.

Mental Health System

Why is the mental health system so often harmful to those it seeks to help, and what can be done to change the situation?

Military and Mental Health

The intersection between the military and the mental health system has gained special attention because of veterans returning from war with a diagnosis of “post traumatic stress disorder” or PTSD.

MindFreedom’s library of information about mental health, psychiatry, human rights & alternatives

These are items gathered by MindFreedom about mental health care, the psychiatric profession, advocacy, humane alternatives and more. This information is gathered for public education, and does not necessarily reflect the position of MindFreedom and its board. Nothing on MindFreedom.org or in our material should be construed as an attempt to offer or render a medical or legal opinion.

Personal accounts of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors

These are first person descriptions by MindFreedom members of human rights violations in the psychiatric system.

Police and Mental Health

This material has information involving police and those impacted by the mental health system. This includes commentary about special training for the police on mental health issues.

Prison and Mental Health

All people in the criminal justice system deserve a range of voluntary supports. Unfortunately, the motto ‘help not prisons’ is being used to promote more and more psychiatric drugging and restraints of prisoners, without that full variety of humane alternatives.

Psychiatric Drug Industry

Investigations of the undue influence by huge and profitable corporations that manufacture psychiaric medications.

Psychiatric Drugs

A variety of information about psychiatric prescribed medications, including neuroleptic brain damage, deaths and psychiatric drugs, and resources about quitting psychiatric drugs.

Psychiatric Survivors

 

Resources, books, publications, reviews

Here are reviews and listings of books, publications on human rights and alternatives in the mental health system.

Schizophrenia & Natural Remedies – Withdrawing Safely from Psychiatric Drugs

Maureen B. Roberts, PhD, a Jungian therapist who is the founder and co-ordinator of the Schizophrenia Crisis Centre & Drug-free Helpline, outlines safe, natural, healing remedies for safe withdrawal from psychiatric drugs for patients labeled as ‘schizophrenics’. Dr. Roberts recommends gradual withdrawal techniques, using orthomolecular remedies that replace neurotoxic drugs with natural alternatives, while restoring a more normal pH balance.

Therapy Without Force: A Treatment Model for Severe Psychiatric Problems

This paper offers real-world examples of how therapists can avoid resorting to coercive interventions while attempting to respectfully help those in severe distress. (Author is responsible for content.)

USA Campaign

 

Youth & Mental Health System