Info If you are a conference registrant, please fill out this transportation form. While filling out this form is not required, we are encouraging all participants who can to help coordinate transport. Thank you. [Updated 4 July] Because the event is only a few days away please e-mail the completed form to: creativerevolution@mindfreedom.org If you…
Info Lots of reasons! MindFreedom cannot guarantee assisting your travel to Wisdom House, but we will take every effort to help. We needeveryone’s assistance to do this. Carpooling and ridesharing make ecological and financial sense. Also, ground transport to Wisdom House from the Bradley International Airport or Amtrak station in Hartford is about a one…
Info 31 May 2007: Receiving hundreds of forced electroshocks for years against the expressed wishes of the subject is becoming the “norm” for some mental health clients in New York State psychiatric institutions, says attorney Dennis Feld. In this news release Mr. Feld announces he will be arguing for the right of his client —…
Info Maria Duerr presented this thesis about the history of the psychiatric survivor movement for her Masters Degree in Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in June 1996. (This PDF is 141 pages.) maria-duerr-psychiatric-survivor-history.pdf — PDF document, 2343Kb Document Actions Print this
Info Madness Network News, out of the Bay Area of California, helped network thousands of psychiatric survivors and allies internatioanlly. Their logo was a woman breaking free from a strait jacket. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 113.4 kB Document Actions Print this
Info Each year for many years in the 1970’s and 1980’s, there was an annual gathering of psychiatric survivors, usually on a different college campus in the US or Canada. It became known as the “International Conference on Human Rights and Against Psychiatric Oppression.” At the 1982 gathering in Toronto, participants agreed to these principles.…
Info Psychiatric Survivor Movement History The current era of psychiatric survivor and ally activism is generally considered to have begun in about 1970. Principles adopted by 1982 gathering of psychiatric survivors. Each year for many years in the 1970’s and 1980’s, there was an annual gathering of psychiatric survivors, usually on a different college campus…
Info This is a forwarded news release announcing that a group of shareholders of Eli Lilly are seeking to sue officers and directors of the corporation for illegal fraud regarding their psychiatric drug Zyprexa. This Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler office is just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Forwarded news release; to read original source click…
Info The Planning Committee has announced some of the invited workshop presenters and plenary speakers for the 12 to 15 July 2007 MindFreedom conference/retreat. The Committee accepted exciting workshop presentations from Iceland, the Philippines, Ireland, England, and Canada as well all over the USA. Some of the invited workshop presenters: Mary and Jim Maddock, of…
Info MindFreedom member Ben Hansen has helped investigate how Eli Lilly has used fraud to gain access to federal Medicaid money for their psychiatric drug Zyprexa. Ben Hansen – also known as “Dr. Bonkers” Breaking News New York Times Exposes Huge Nation-Wide Medicaid Scandal by MindFreedom Michigan In a front page story dated March 23,…