Info Al Galves, PhD is on the board of directors of MindFreedom International. BY AL GALVES, CHAIR, MFI DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE I’m raising funds for MindFreedom because the work we are doing is very important: Individuals labeled with psychiatric disabilities are often hurt and not helped. Vast sums of money are spent on treatment that doesn’t…
t Actions Print this This is an article critical of “anti-depressant” psychiatric drugs from a publication in Vancouver, Canada called Common Ground. Anti-depressants: prescription to suicide Date Published: Jul 01, 2006 03:00 AM Author: Angela Bischoff Source: Common Ground, Vancouver, Canada I’m a suicide survivor. My soulmate of 17 years, Tooker Gomberg, committed suicide March 3, 2004.…
Info Document Actions Print this A guest column by dissdent mental health worker and MindFreedom Lane County activist Ron Unger says that a range of real choices in mental health care is crucial for for recovery. Mental health system due for radical reform Date Published: Oct 12, 2006 03:00 AM Author: Ron Unger Source: Register-Guard,…
Info James P. Chasse, Jr. was a resident of Portland, Oregon, USA diagnosed schizophrenic who died in police custody. Psychiatric survivors and mental health consumers marched from the Alternatives 2006 conference to a memorial on 27 October 2006. Participants in Alternatives 2006 prepare to march to Jim Chasse memorial. (Photo: MindFreedom) James P. Chasse, Jr.…
MFI Conference/Retreat The 2007 conference/retreat is over. But you can read about it here. This is information for pre-registered participants in the Creative Revolution in Healing conference/retreat 12 to 15 July 2007. Pre-registration was required and capacity for the conference was reached more than two months before the event. Read More… New Network for Mental…
Info Thomas E. Wittick is an MFI member who named one of the first psychiatric rights movement activist groups in this era in the USA. Tom chose the name “Insane Liberation Front” for the influential group that began in Portland, Oregon, USA in 1970, and he organized along side the infamous Howie T. Harp. Tom…
Info Hugh Massengill, psychiatric survivor and MFI member, addresses opening session of City of Eugene, Oregon, USA conference on Choice in Mental Health Care as a Human Right at the University of Oregon. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 1.3 MB Document Actions Print this
Info Psychiatric Coercion Techniques ranging from pressure to out right force in the mental health system. Those labeled “mentally ill” should be helped, not forcibly drugged An opinion piece opposing forced psychiatric drugging. Outpatient Forced Psychiatry More and more citizens are required to take super-powerful psychiatric drugs against their will while living in their own…
Info The 2007 conference/retreat is over. But you can read about it here. This is information for pre-registered participants in the Creative Revolution in Healing conference/retreat 12 to 15 July 2007. Pre-registration was required and capacity for the conference was reached more than two months before the event. Wisdom House is nestled in 55 beautiful…
The founder of RAPS talks about her background and story, and how she became active and founded RAPS. Here’s how we got started at RAPS by Linda Valentine In 1997 with the encouragement of David Oaks due to the fact that parents, guardians, allies and friends of people trapped in the system had questions! Questions…
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