FAST FOR FREEDOM IN MENTAL HEALTH NEWS RELEASE – 21 August 2003 Hunger Strikers Demand Human Rights in Mental Health: American Psychiatric Association Replies PASADENA, CALIF: On Sat., 16 August 2003 six “psychiatric survivors” from throughout theUnited States arrived in Pasadena, Calif. and began a hunger strike to press for human rights and choice in…
Activism in mental health Action campaigns to challenge and transform the mental health system. Candlelight vigil remembers Jim Chasse, Jr. James P. Chasse, Jr. was a resident of Portland, Oregon, USA diagnosed schizophrenic who died in police custody. Psychiatric survivors and mental health consumers marched from the Alternatives 2006 conference to a memorial on 27…
Info Learn about how the MindFreedom Shield may help protect registered members from coerced psychiatric procedures. MindFreedom International issues alerts about individuals at risk of orcurrently experiencing involuntary psychiatric procedures, including onan outpatient basis while living peacefully in the community in theirown residences. For example, occasionally these public alerts have led to some members who…
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9th Annual Conference of ICSPP International Center for the Study of Psychology and Psychiatry’s annual conference. what when Oct 07, 2006 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM where Washington, D.C., USA add event to calendar vCal iCal The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, Inc. (ICSPP) is a sponsor group of MindFreedom. This is an…
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Info Filed Under: general Appreciation to everyone who helped on the new web site! Just a quick note thanking everyone who has helped on the new web site. Thanks much to MindFreedom members who have been volunteering to assist with the production on this new web site. For instance, all the personal stories and the…
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Info RAPS Relatives and Allies of Psychiatric Survivors Welcome to RAPS! Why the family and friends of loved ones who have survived abuse in the psychiatric system need to network and unite, now! RAPS background & activity This folder has information about the background and history of RAPS activity and advocacy. RAPS News For those…
Info Globalization of psychiatry Concern about expansion of the mental health industry to poor & developing countries. Q&A with Arthur Kleinman This interview by the Boston Globe of professor Arthur Kleinman — author, psychiatrist, anthropologist, and Director of Harvard’s Asia Center — touches on the medicalization of psychiatry, and cross-cultural mental health issues. Arthur Kleinman…