Info Global News From Psychiatric Inmate to Honorary Doctor: Peter Lehmann receives Honorary Doctorate Long-time MindFreedom member and activist Peter Lehmann has been given an honorary doctor for his decades of work to win human rights and alternatives in the mental health field. [Update 29 Oct. 2010] Read More… New Featured Products in the Mad…
Info Global News A People’s Centre for Treatment, Health and Therapy: Founding Meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment MindFreedom South Africa launched a new project in the summer of 2007, at the founding meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment: Alternatives in Mental Health and Psychrights Advocacy. The Ubuntu Centre was conceived…
Info USA News “Challenging the movement to think outside the box” An MFI internet radio interview with James Jordan, CNC Celia Brown hosts “Challenging the movement to think outside the box,” a LIVE interview with Oregon nutrition and natural health advocate, James Jordan, CNC, JD. Saturday, Jan. 24th 11:30 am PST/2:30 pm EST Read More……
Info USA News Paula J. Caplan and the “DSM 9” call upon the APA to stop the harm of psychiatric diagnosis Paula J. Caplan, dissident psychologist and human rights activist, is working with a group of psychiatric survivors and allies to officially call upon the American Psychiatric Association [APA] to stop the harm that often…
Info USA News The Huffington Post Carries Attack on Alternatives 2010 Mental Health Conference Live from Alternatives 2010 in Anaheim, California: MindFreedom director David Oaks says more than 1,000 mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors have registered, and there’s lots of great news. But rather than cover this news, The Huffington Post is once more…
Info USA News Bill would challenge psychiatric abuse of youth in residential treatment Bazelon Center has issued an alert about a bill in the USA congress to do something about human rights abuses rampant in residential programs for teens diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities. Bazelon Center is a Sponsor Group in MindFreedom International. Read More… Congressional…
Info USA News Forced Outpatient Psychiatric Drugging *STOPPED* in New Mexico… So Far! Finally, Something to Celebrate! New Mexico’s Senate adjourned without passing an involuntary outpatient commitment law. Read More… More media articles about fraud in psychiatric drug ads Wall St. Journal, United Press International, WebMD and Time Magazine Pacific all cover the story that…
Info MindFreedom Ireland representative John McCarthy inside the United Nations meeting on disability and human rights. (Photo by Tom Olin.) Click to view full-size image… — Size: 31.2 kB Document Actions Print this
MINDFREEDOM NEWS RELEASE: 25 September 2003 A coalition of 100 advocacy groups working in the mental health field is condemning experiments with psychiatric drug implants. The Executive Director for MindFreedom Support Coalition International said, “These psychiatric drug implant devices currently in development are inherently coercive. They violate core principles of self-determination, empowerment and human rights.…
Info Psychiatric Drug Implants University of Pennsylvania researchers are experimenting on an implantable disk under the skin that would time-release powerful neuroleptic psychiatric drugs for up to one year. Controversial Implant Sparks ‘Town Hall’ This brief Newsday article sums up a few of the ethical issues emerging from the experimental new technology of psychiatric drug…