Info Essay The Manifesto of a Noncompliant Mental Patient This excellent essay by psychiatric survivor member of MindFreedom International was first published in the Canadian publication Open Minds Quarterly. The author Aubrey Ellen Shomo is shown at left in below photo helping to staff the MindFreedom ‘free space’ at Alternatives 2007. Aubrey encourages you to…
Info Representatives from several psychiatric survivor and mental health consumer/user organizations met with leaders of the World Psychiatric Association here in Dresden, Germany. Here is a news briefing by David Oaks, Director of MindFreedom International President of WPA thanks Dorothea Buck for keynote. June 2007 Top Global Psychiatry Leaders Meet with United Psychiatric Survivor/Mental Health…
Info One of the participants in BonkersFest was this Bonker Bird. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 3.8 kB Document Actions Print this
Info A brief alert about how the American Psychiatric Association has closed the door on psychiatric survivor group involvement in the future and globalization of psychiatric labeling. [August 2011 update: a couple of the links that originally worked for more information in this article, no longer work. But for the record, they are still included.] …
Info Here are several Mad radio shows and one Non-Mad radio show you may listen to about changing the mental health system, all hosted by MindFreedom members who are psychiatric survivors! All may be heard on the web. Oryx and Will at the madness radio controls. MINDFREEDOM NEWS HOUR: Of course! MindFreedom’s own show each…
Info Freedom Center Freedom Center based in Northamptom, Massachusetts provides free alternatives and promotes human rights in the mental health system. Forbes magazine features Will Hall and Freedom Center in online spotlight Freedom Center news release: Freedom Center and co-founder Will Hall were featured in a special online Forbes magazine article. Freedom Center is a…
Info Document Actions Print this Abilify and other newer drugs may cause increased violence. A Tacoma Washington investigative reporter asks intelligent questions about akathisia and increased violence at Western State Hospital in Washington. “This has not been adequately studied” at any psychiatric hospital, said Dr. Stefan Kruszewski, an expert on psychoactive med side effects. “Most…
Info MindFreedom Mad Pride A short clip of what’s to come regardling MindFreedom’s “jump” into the age of video logging. Let us know if you enjoyed our first clip and would like to see more! The footage is taken from an event in Eugene OR. The event took place early May 2007. This was a…
Info Here is the text of a united statement by a number of psychiatric survivor and mental health consumer/user groups that says, “We stand united in calling for an end to all forced and coerced psychiatric procedures and for the development of alternatives to psychiatry.” It is to be released publicly in Dresden, Germany on…
Info This is the version in deutsch: Several psychiatric survivor organizations, including MindFreedom International, helped develop and issue this call to end force and coercion in the mental health system. The timing of the statement is to coincide with a special conference by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) on the subject of coercion in psychiatry…