Info A message from the Staff and Board of MindFreedom International On 1 December 2012, MFI Executive Director David Oaks sustained a serious injury from a fall which resulted in him breaking his neck. While trying to get news out to members and support David and his family, we invited people to support not only MFI but…
Info Free, downloadable poster with Amy Smith’s fantastic artwork, announcing the inaugural CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT WEEK (July 7 – July 14, 2013)! creative maladjustment poster.pdf — PDF document, 6434Kb Document Actions Print this
Info CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT WEEK (July 7-July 14, 2013) is only 6 months away! On this national day in celebration of the founder of the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment [IAACM], MindFreedom echoes the famous words of Martin Luther King, Jr. in saying that “the salvation of the world lies in the hands…
Info CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT WEEK (July 7-July 14, 2013) is only 6 months away! On this national day in celebration of the founder of the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment [IAACM], MindFreedom echoes the famous words of Martin Luther King, Jr. in saying that “the salvation of the world lies in the hands…
Info This was a fantastic FIRST SHOW OF 2013! MARY ELLEN COPELAND, MAGDALINE VOLAITIS, and guest host SOPHIE FAUGHT discussed how we we can replace harsh and invasive psychiatric interventions with personal empowerment, self-help, and recovery for people in mental/emotional distress! Listen to the archive at: www.blogtalkradio.com/davidwoaks Mary Ellen Copeland, guest on MindFreedom’s ALTERNATIVE MENTAL…
Info Well over 1,000 individuals – many of them MindFreedom members and supporters – participated in this important survey gathering information on messages of hopelessness in mental health care. Download the results now. You can download the Hope in Mental Health Care final survey summary here. Click here to download the final survey summary. The…
Info Click here to download the final summary of data collected during the Hope In Mental Health Care Survey. From June to October, 2012, MindFreedom conducted a two-part Hope in Mental Health Care Survey, which was designed to answer these questions about hope and hopelessness in mental health care: 1.How prevalent are messages of…
Info A letter from David, who says: “The silver lining in this event has been witnessing the love between us all.” David accepts an award from the Eugene Human Rights Commission in 2003. Photo by John Jordan-Cascade Dear Friends, family, colleagues, and supporters, After 4 decades as a psychiatric survivor human rights activist and 3…
Info Paula J. Caplan, dissident psychologist and human rights activist, is working with a group of psychiatric survivors and allies to officially call upon the American Psychiatric Association [APA] to stop the harm that often results from psychiatric diagnosis. Jenny McClendon, one of the DSM 9, has told her story of harm by psychiatric diagnosis…
Donate to the special MindFreedom fund honoring David W. Oaks to boost the MFI projects nearest and dearest to his heart! As many of you know, our founder and executive director for the past 25+ years, David Oaks, recently suffered a serious accident and broke the C7 bone in his neck. David has a long…