Info Alison Hymes describes a battle for human rights in the mental health system in Virginia that she says could impact other states. Alison Hymes describes herself as a “Token” Member of the Commitment Taskforce of the Chief Justice’s Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia Citizens With…
Info MindFreedom Virginia Fight for Human Rights in Virginian Mental Health System Alison Hymes describes a battle for human rights in the mental health system in Virginia that she says could impact other states. Statewide Organization of Consumers in Virginia Introducing VOCAL. Explaining MindFreedom Virginia’s relationship to this organization. An announcement of the completion of…
Info Apparently in response to the state-wide outrage following MindFreedom human rights alerts about two individuals slated for forced electroshock, NY State has issued new “guidelines” about use of involuntary electroshock over the wishes of the subject. MindFreedom’s response: No Means No. MindFreedom Update New York State Issues New “Guidelines” on Electroshock Guidelines…
Info When the World Psychiatric Association held a special international meeting on the subject of coercion in psychiatry, MindFreedom united with several other organizations of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors to negotiate inclusion in the conference, and create a dialogue. The results were video taped and are now online. [update May 2008] Dorothea Buck…
Info On the CBS television show “60 Minutes” on 30 September 2007, Katie Couric looks into the death of four-year-old Rebecca Riley who was given multiple psychiatric drugs after being diagnosed “bipolar.” The parents were charged with murder. Four-year-old Rebecca Riley whose death investigated by 60 Minutes. An online debate began on the CBS web…
Info In this news analysis for MFI, Lloyd Ross, a psychologist and human rights activist, ties together the scandals of the way the psychiatric drug Zyprexa was marketed, with the targeting of America’s youth through unscientific mental health screening programs such as TeenScreen. Lloyd encourages you to take action today to support the youth of…
Info 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 as a means for helping to heal the racially-charged divisions of South Africa’s apartheid past, marked by suffering of…
Info Maths Jesperson is a long-time psychiatric survivor activist, leader and actor in Sweden, who is calling upon psychiatric survivors and allies all over the world to submit comments to an online medical magazine. This magazine covers all kinds of medical topics, but the editor, who is a psychiatrist, has reached out to psychiatric survivors…
Info Document Actions Print this “Dirty Medicine” author Martin Walker talks about the codex alimentarius, the profit-driven bias of ‘pharmascience’, the commissioning and planting of deceptive news stories, the character assassination of alternative practitioners and researchers, and the dark political practices of the pharmaceutical cartel. An Interview with Martin J. Walker Date Published: Jan 01,…
Info While institutionalized for three years as an adolescent in the 1960’s, MindFreedom member Dorothy Washburn Dundas was labeled a “schizophrenic” and forced to undergo 40 combined insulin coma-electroshock “treatments.” Dorothy says, “I experienced and witnessed many atrocities. I believe that luck, determination, and my own anger and one compassionate advocate were my best friends…