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…
International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) is a key network of dissident mental health professionals and allies who are willing to challenge abuse in the mental health system and promote alternatives. ICSPP is a sponsor group of MindFreedom. what Convention when Oct 13, 2007 03:00 AM to Oct 15, 2007 08:15 PM…
Info bias Mainstream media bias toward the perspective of the mental health industry, while excluding the voice of critics and mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, is one of the biggest obstacles to winning human rights in the mental health system. Major media tend to ignore the public service work of mental health consumers and…