Positive Psychology is Getting a Tryout at McLean Hospital

Info Document Actions Print this The major psychiatric institution McLean Hospital in Massachusetts, a Harvard teaching facility, announced it is introducing “positive psychology” as an alternative approach to assist in mental and emotional well being recovery. Positive Psychology is Getting a Tryout at McLean Hospital Date Published: Jan 15, 2007 03:00 AM Author: Carey Goldberg,…

Disability

Info Disability These documents explore the intersection between the disability movement and the movement to change the mental health system. MFI Ashley Alert: Nine-year-old given injections to stunt growth MindFreedom joins other disability rights group in speaking out to oppose how nine-year-old Ashley, who has intellectual and physical disabilities, is being given drugs to minimize…

Outpatient Forced Psychiatry

Info Outpatient Forced Psychiatry More and more citizens are required to take super-powerful psychiatric drugs against their will while living in their own homes out in the community. Today 42 US states allow courts to order “involuntary outpatient commitment.” An increasing number of countries are using “community treatment orders” and other techniques that make our…