Info This is a welcome message to pre-registered participants of the Creative Revoliution conference/retreat from Celia Brown, MindFreedom board president and chair of the conference organizing committee. Pre-registration is required to attend this conference. From Celia Brown, MindFreedom board president Welcome to the Creative Revolution: Turning Our Minds Around Mindfreedom Conference. The beautiful retreat site…
Info Already, Mad Pride events are being planned in seven nations. Mad Pride celebrates the right of all human beings not to be “normal”! That means you! After a decade of activity, Mad Pride events are gaining altitude as never before. Join in or start Mad Pride 2008 events today — large or small! Mad…
Info Mad Pride 2006 events around the world are especially extensive in locations in four nations: the west African nation of Ghana; Vancouver and Toronto, Canada; England; and Albany, New York, USA. Mad Pride Rows With Many Oars! Here are just a sample of last year’s Mad Pride 2006 events: ACCRA, GHANA, AFRICA: MindFreedomGhana held…
Mad Pride 2007 are already happening! Here is the background along with a link to known 2007 Mad Pride events and activities and updates! by Krista Erickson, Chair, MFI Mad Pride Committee MindFreedom is receiving announcements about some of the planned Mad Pride 2007 events, and some have already happened! For a current list of…
Info A unique parade, a premiere in Brussels, organized by UilenSpiegel, inspired by Mad Pride’s of MindFreedom is planned for 6 October 2007. You may download an MS Word poster here. Listing of MAD PRIDE and related events is for information purposes only. A group listed is not necessarily a member, sponsor or affiliate of…
Info Document Actions Print this Neuroleptic psychiatric drugs (sometimes called “antipsychotics”) are increasingly being given to Canadian youth. Young Canadian children are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs Date Published: Jun 18, 2007 01:00 AM Author: Sharon Kirkey Source: CanWest News Service Source to original article. Antipsychotics are being widely prescribed to children with behaviour and mood…
Info Document Actions Print this This article in the San Francisco Weekly mentions MindFreedom and quotes MFI board member Matt Morrissey from the MFI sponsor group Full Spectrum. The writer explores the life and perspective of those struggling to find non-drug alternatives for mental and emotional problems and differences. Just Say No Date Published: May…
Info Document Actions Print this This Washington Post article explores the enormous shift in children’s time from outdoors to indoors in just the past few years. Getting Lost in the Great Indoors Date Published: Jun 19, 2007 03:00 AM Author: Donna St. George, Washington Post Staff Writer Source: Washington Post, Page A01 Many Adults Worry…
Concerned about the way the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) is aggressively pursuing involuntary electroshock over the expressed wishes of the subject? You may want to bring up your concern at one of their events. The below is from the OMH web site and lists meetings you can attend in July. For…
Info Keynote speech from June 7, 2007, by Dorothea Buck, Honorary Chair of the German Bundesver-band Psychiatrie-Erfahrener, at the congress “Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review”, run by the World Psychiatric Organisation in Dresden, Germany, June 6 – 8, 2007. This is in PDF format. buck-wpa-2007-e.pdf — PDF document, 78Kb Document Actions Print this