Info Freedom Center Freedom Center based in Northamptom, Massachusetts provides free alternatives and promotes human rights in the mental health system. Forbes magazine features Will Hall and Freedom Center in online spotlight Freedom Center news release: Freedom Center and co-founder Will Hall were featured in a special online Forbes magazine article. Freedom Center is a…
Info Document Actions Print this Abilify and other newer drugs may cause increased violence. A Tacoma Washington investigative reporter asks intelligent questions about akathisia and increased violence at Western State Hospital in Washington. “This has not been adequately studied” at any psychiatric hospital, said Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, an expert on psychoactive med side effects. “Most…
Info MindFreedom Mad Pride A short clip of what’s to come regardling MindFreedom’s “jump” into the age of video logging. Let us know if you enjoyed our first clip and would like to see more! The footage is taken from an event in Eugene OR. The event took place early May 2007. This was a…
Info Here is the text of a united statement by a number of psychiatric survivor and mental health consumer/user groups that says, “We stand united in calling for an end to all forced and coerced psychiatric procedures and for the development of alternatives to psychiatry.” It is to be released publicly in Dresden, Germany on…
Info This is the version in deutsch: Several psychiatric survivor organizations, including MindFreedom International, helped develop and issue this call to end force and coercion in the mental health system. The timing of the statement is to coincide with a special conference by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) on the subject of coercion in psychiatry…
Info Several psychiatric survivor organizations, including MindFreedom International, helped develop and issue this call to end force and coercion in the mental health system. The timing of the statement is to coincide with a special conference by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) on the subject of coercion in psychiatry which is being held in Dresden…
Info wpa-dresden A number of psychiatric survivor and mental health consumer organizations have united to speak out directly inside a special conference by the World Psychiatric Association on the topic of ending coercion and force in the mental health system. Psychiatric Survivor Organization Dialogue at World Psychiatric Association Coercion Conference At a special meeting of…
Info This is a summary of an article published in the May 2007 issue of the Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. 195(5):406-414. Factors Involved in Outcome and Recovery in Schizophrenia Patients Not on Antipsychotic Medications: A 15-Year Multifollow-Up Study. Harrow, Martin PhD; Jobe, Thomas H. MD Abstract: This prospective longitudinal 15-year multifollow-up research studied…
Info An article about how taking neuroleptic psychiatric drugs is related to increased death rate. The 2006 research report by Matti Joukamaa, MD, PhD, et al. was published in British Medical Journal. Joukamaa-2006.pdf — PDF document, 260Kb Document Actions Print this
Info This “free thought” anthem called “Die Gedanken Sind Frei” has a history that is many centuries long. There are lots of resources here so that your local group of friends and colleagues can start singing this stirring song, and keep the spirit building! [updated June 2011.] Historians know the idea of this song about…