Info Personal accounts of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors These are first person descriptions by MindFreedom members of human rights violations in the psychiatric system. Tapley-Milton and “Mind Full of Scorpions” MindFreedom member Katherine Tapley-Milton of New Brunswick, Canada has a personal web site with information about her book about surviving psychiatric abuse called…
Info PRAWI is a sponsor group of MFI in New Zealand. Here is a letter by long-time human rights activist Anna de Jonge on behalf of PRAWI to the New Zealand government commenting on a draft of the Convention Against Torture-Draft Periodic Report. Anna encourages the inclusion of electroshock and other psychiatric procedures. Anna…
Info “Biological Psychiatry: A Practice in Search of a Science” is an academic article which includes coverage of the MindFreedom 2003 hunger strike. The piece, by W. Joseph Wyatt & Donna M. Midkiff of Marshall University, was published in the peer-reviewed online journal Behavior and Social Issues, 15, 132-151 (Fall/Winter 2006), and may be downloaded…
Info MindFreedom Radio features psychiatric survivor activist Leah Harris as the guest. If you miss the live online broadcast you can get the archive, either way is free. Host is MF Director David Oaks. Leah Harris, psychiatric survivor activist Wednesday, 29 November 2006 – MindFreedom Radio Guest is Leah Harris, psychiatric-survivor & champion of youth…
Up one level Unite so that the voice of psychiatric survivors, including from developing nations, may be heard globally! all 17 items in this folder are selected. clear selection title size modified state Global Campaign News Global Campaign News 8.3 kB Dec 09, 2013 08:33 PM Published News about the MFI Global Campaign Committee News about…
Events which have already happened. UK Television Production Company Seeks Mad Pride Stories A Channel 4 TV company is developing a show about Mad Pride and is looking for stories. PRAWI Education Day on Human Rights & Alternatives in Mental Health PRAWI of New Zealand is a sponsor group in MindFreedom International. Director Anna de…
Finally, Something to Celebrate! New Mexico’s Senate adjourned without passing an involuntary outpatient commitment law. 16 Feb. 2006 The law would have made New Mexico the 43rd USA state to allow courts to order peaceful citizens living out in the community in their own homes to take powerful psychiatric drugs against their will, even though…
News related directly or indirectly to MindFreedom International. Victory for John Kelly! Forced Electroshock Stopped… So Far Apparently because of many complaints, the forced electroshock of John Kelly in Rockland Psychiatric Center has been prevented. Attorney Aaron Frishberg had issued an alert on 30 July 2007 alert about his client John Kelly facing more forced…
Info MindFreedom Oregon News Zone This web folder of news about a nonviolent revolution in Oregon’s mental health system is sponsored by MindFreedom Oregon, a state-wide affiliate uniting Oregonians for human rights and alternatives in the mental health system. Oregon Consumer Survivor Coalition Representatives from several groups of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors…
Info On 23 November 2006 The New York Times ran a major article questioning the way young people in the USA are frequently prescribed a “chemical cocktail” of prescribed psychiatric drugs. MFI NEWS ANALYSIS 23 November 2006 – MindFreedom International The NY Times has published a significant investigation of the use of “polypharmacy” on children…