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Info MFI News News related directly or indirectly to MindFreedom International. Latest show BRUCE LEVINE & LAUREN TENNEY Guests on MindFreedom Live Free Web Radio. This was a successful show, you can hear archive! On 13 August 2011 the theme is “Liberation Psychology.” MFI Live Web Radio interviews BRUCE LEVINE whose new book challenges not…

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Info MFI News News related directly or indirectly to MindFreedom International. Historic PsychOUT Event Promotes Activist Unity, Protests Electroshock [Updated 5 June 2010] Survivors of psychiatric human rights violations and their allies from more than five countries gathered for three days — from 7 to 9 May 2010 — in Toronto Canada for a conference…

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Info MFI News News related directly or indirectly to MindFreedom International. IAACM launched! Martin Luther King, Jr. called for an “International Association for Advancement of Creative Maladjustment” more than 10 times in his speeches and writing. What Time Magazine dismissed as a “half joke,” Mad Pride has made into a reality! Read More… Mary Maddock…

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Info MFI News News related directly or indirectly to MindFreedom International. May 2008 Protests of Electroshock Electroshock — also known as electroconvulsive therapy — was protested by MindFreedom members in Cork, Ireland; Ottawa, Canada; Montreal, Canada. Here are brief reports from each. Read More… MindFreedom Journal #48 available Issue includes news about Global, USA, Media,…

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Info MFI News News related directly or indirectly to MindFreedom International. How to Screen Yourself for Normality for Free! You can take this free and easy self-test for normality wherever you are. It’s one more step to screening the whole world for normality. Read More… How to Screen Yourself for Normality for Free! You can…

Global News

Info Global News World Mental Health Day 2015 – “Dignity in Mental Health” Mindfreedom Ghana and other advocates participated in the Street March in Cape Coast Central Region, Ghana as part of their activities to mark World Mental Health Day 2015. Read More… Notes from the 2014 Creative Revolution Conference Special thanks to Celia Brown…

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Info Global News From Psychiatric Inmate to Honorary Doctor: Peter Lehmann receives Honorary Doctorate Long-time MindFreedom member and activist Peter Lehmann has been given an honorary doctor for his decades of work to win human rights and alternatives in the mental health field. [Update 29 Oct. 2010] Read More… New Featured Products in the Mad…

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Info Global News A People’s Centre for Treatment, Health and Therapy: Founding Meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment MindFreedom South Africa launched a new project in the summer of 2007, at the founding meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment: Alternatives in Mental Health and Psychrights Advocacy. The Ubuntu Centre was conceived…

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Info USA News “Challenging the movement to think outside the box” An MFI internet radio interview with James Jordan, CNC Celia Brown hosts “Challenging the movement to think outside the box,” a LIVE interview with Oregon nutrition and natural health advocate, James Jordan, CNC, JD. Saturday, Jan. 24th 11:30 am PST/2:30 pm EST Read More……

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Info USA News Paula J. Caplan and the “DSM 9” call upon the APA to stop the harm of psychiatric diagnosis 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…