Info It’s MAD LIVE RADIO this Wednesday, 26 September 2007, at 4 pm ET. You can click, listen and phone in to a free live web interview on MindFreedom Internet Radio with two Mad Pride activists in Toronto, Canada: Ruth Ruth and Jeremiah Bach. Phone in live with your questions & comments. Host is David…
Info Dorothy Dundas survived insulin coma shock and went on to become a human rights activist. This Wednesday, 3 October 2007, at 4 pm ET click, listen and phone in to a free live web interview on MindFreedom Internet Radio with Dorothy Dundas. Phone in live with your questions & comments. Host is David Oaks.…
MindFreedom Ghana based on Accra, Ghana, Africa held a second annual Mad Pride street march in July 2007. Here are a few photos. MindFreedom Ghana Mad Pride 2007 Street March in Accra MindFreedom Ghana Mad Pride 2007 Street March in Accra MindFreedom Ghana Mad Pride 2007 Street March in Accra MindFreedom Ghana’s Mad Pride 2007…
Info Peter Lehmann is a psychiatric survivor activist based in Berlin, Germany. Peter is an editor, author, publisher, and is a liaison from MindFreedom to the United Nations. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 250.2 kB Document Actions Print this
This newspaper article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on 30 July 2007 covers the Freedom Center’s Bed Push and “Escape from Psychiatry” to celebrate Mad Pride! Freedom Center 2007 Bed Push celebrates Mad Pride. [Photo by JERREY ROBERTS] Daily Hampshire Gazette 30 July 2007 BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS NORTHAMPTON, MASS, USA – Pushing a bed a…
Info Russian journalist Larisa Arap has been freed from a Russian psychiatric institution where she has been held for 46 days. Arap, who had investigated psychiatric institutions, was freed following the visit of a government commission, which may have been prompted by widespread public protests. MindFreedom was one of many groups to issue a human…
Info Janet Foner, board member of MindFreedom International and Chair of Choices in Mental Health Committee, presented this speech on Thursday evening, 12 July 2007, at the MindFreedom International Conference: Creative Revolution: Turning Our Minds Around near Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. We chose the title of our conference carefully. Tonight, we are turning our minds around…
Info audio activism Use of radio and other audible media to promote human rights and alternatives in the mental health system. Mary Van Pelt radio shows Mary Van Pelt began independent production of community radio with Midi Age Productions in the spring of 2004. She advocates for the rights of people diagnosed with mental illness.…
Info Document Actions Print this Psychiatric survivor, psychologist and author Ron Bassman wrote this breakthrough article that was published in the popular magazine, Psychology Today. He describes how despite a diagnosis of schizophrenia and years of lock-ups and abuse and electroshock and insulin coma therapy and psychiatric drugs…. he survived, recovered, became a psychologist. Ron…
Info Here’s the latest schedule for the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology conference in October 2007, with information provided by ICSPP as of 25 July 2007. ICSPP is a sponsor group of MindFreedom. Please note this conference is organized by ICSPP and not MFI. Any changes or feedback, please directly contact…