Since September 2002, the Oregon mental health system has spent zero (0) to support the state-wide empowerment and voice of mental health clients. Oregon continues to be one of the very few states in the USA to provide zero funding to support the state-wide voice, empowerment, self-determination and advocacy of mental health consumers and psychiatric…
Info The US FDA announced that on January 27 and 28, 2011, a US Food & Drug Administration committee will “discuss and make recommendations regarding the possible reclassification of devices indicated for use in electroconvulsive therapy.” What Forum When Jan 27, 2011 08:00 AM to Jan 28, 2011 06:00 PM Where Gaithersburg, MD Contact Name…
Info MindFreedom Members, Marcela Musgrove, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, and colleague Madalyn Marcus, are working on a special issue of The Journal of Participatory Medicine on Mental Health. They are seeking diverse perspectives from participatory research, opinion pieces, book reviews, writings by survivors/consumers, etc. The Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM) is looking for submissions from mental…
Info 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] Peter Lehmann awarded Honorary Doctoral Degree by the School of Psychology of the Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece, Faculty of…
Info Information about MindFreedom Germany, and member activities in Germany Germany has a long history of activism to support human rights and alternatives in mental health. 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…
Info It’s over. We won. Today, Friday, 22 October 2010, 5 pm EST was the deadline. And after the dust settled… After a last-minute campaign that temporarily pushed forced outpatient psychiatric drugging to the top of a USA forum about federal mental health goals… Enough of you ‘voted’ on the web to support the voice…
The Washington Post published the following debate about whether the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Massachusetts tortures many of the children detained there. On 2 October 2010, The Washington Post published the below essay by president of Disability Rights International, Laurie Ahern, charging JRC with torture. A United Nations representative agrees. DRI is a sponsor…
Info From 2003 to 2010, MindFreedom International would do an occasional analysis of the NAMI web site using the Google search engine, to determine the number of times nami.org used the term “biologically based.” While not exact, this is an indication of how much the organization was emphasizing its theory that significant mental and emotional…
Info On Saturday, 9 October 2010, MFI held a live, free Internet show with special guest author Robert Whitaker, and you can hear the archive. The US government has funded an annual meeting of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors for the past 25 years. But when their conference organizers decided to address controversies involving…
Info Is it taboo to discuss psychiatric drugs in mental health system funded events? When the conference Alternatives 2010 addressed the controversy of psychiatric drugs, their federal funders cracked down. Will we be able to have a full discussion of issues involving psychiatric drugs with this kind of repression? Robert Whitaker on MFI Live Web…