MF Journal #47 – read text on a web page
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Thanks much to web helpers
Info Filed Under: general Appreciation to everyone who helped on the new web site! Just a quick note thanking everyone who has helped on the new web site. Thanks much to MindFreedom members who have been volunteering to assist with the production on this new web site. For instance, all the personal stories and the…
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RAPS
Info RAPS Relatives and Allies of Psychiatric Survivors Welcome to RAPS! Why the family and friends of loved ones who have survived abuse in the psychiatric system need to network and unite, now! RAPS background & activity This folder has information about the background and history of RAPS activity and advocacy. RAPS News For those…
Globalization of psychiatry
Info Globalization of psychiatry Concern about expansion of the mental health industry to poor & developing countries. Q&A with Arthur Kleinman This interview by the Boston Globe of professor Arthur Kleinman — author, psychiatrist, anthropologist, and Director of Harvard’s Asia Center — touches on the medicalization of psychiatry, and cross-cultural mental health issues. Arthur Kleinman…
Global Issues
Info Global Issues International activist concerns on human rights and alternatives in the mental health system. Globalization of psychiatry Concern about expansion of the mental health industry to poor & developing countries. Report documents human rights violations in Turkey psychiatric facilities. Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) released a 2005 report about human rights abuses in…
New Antipsychotic Drugs Criticized: Federal Study Finds No Benefit Over Older, Cheaper Drug
Info Document Actions Print this A front page Washington Post article about a federal study that “challenges widespread assumptions” about one of psychiatry’s most frequently-used drugs quotes David Oaks, MindFreedom International director. A MindFreedom analysis follows. New Antipsychotic Drugs Criticized: Federal Study Finds No Benefit Over Older, Cheaper Drug Date Published: Sep 20, 2005 01:00…
Donations tie drug firms and nonprofits
Info Document Actions Print this This Philadelphia Inquirer probe uncovers hidden money ties between psychiatric drug manufacturers and nonprofit mental health groups such as NAMI and CHADD that promote these drugs. The journalist quotes MindFreedom director David Oaks: “… the entire paradigm is owned by the drug companies, and … the hazards of the drugs,…
Joe S Baletta
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Joe S Baletta “The most important thing in a person’s recovery process is to know that someone cares for you, someone outside yourself, and that you can care for yourself and that you can love yourself and get over those demons that haunt us all, that drive us…
Beate Braun
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Beate Braun “If you are diagnosed with schizophrenia, they talk with you like you are not there. They talk about you but not with you, but you have to hear it. But if you really want to talk, the doctors and nurses in the hospital don’t have time…