John McCarthy
Info 28 March 2007 – Guest John McCarthy is a psychiatric survivor, a poet, and an activist who helped found MindFreedom Ireland. 600109.oaks032807.mp3 — MP3 audio, 11988Kb Document Actions Print this
Fight for Human Rights in Virginian Mental Health System
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…
MindFreedom Virginia
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…
NY State New Guidelines on Forced Electroshock
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…
Psychiatric Survivor Dialogue With World Psychiatric Association Online
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…
Katie Couric investigates death of Rebecca Riley
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…
Linking Zyprexa and TeenScreen Controversies
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…
A People’s Centre for Treatment, Health and Therapy: Founding Meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment
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…
Alert: Psychiatric Survivors & Allies May Comment in Medical Magazine
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…
An Interview with Martin J. Walker
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,…