Info Psychiatrist Carl Hammerschlag Challenges DSM, calls for “Nobility of Weird” MindFreedom’s David Oaks interviews psychiatrist Carl Hammerschlag, who works closely with Patch Adams and Gesundhedit Institute. The interview is at the 2011 Oregon Country Fair near Veneta, Oregon. Dr. Hammerschlag supports MindFreedom’s call to “boycott normal,” and challenge the power of psychiatry’s label bible,…
Info The brand new MindFreedom Journal #51 is now out! Theme: How to work with people and groups who support the human rights of psychiatric survivors. Here’s how you can get your new issue. Cover photo of MindFreedom Journal #51 shows six moms of survivors of psychiatric abuse. Did you get your new MFJ?…
Info Here you may download a “rich text” version of the content of MindFreedom Journal #50, published winter 2009-2010, offered as an alternative print format. mfj-50-text.rtf — Rich Text Format (RTF), 170Kb Document Actions Print this
Info This is a full-color downloadable PDF of MindFreedom Journal #50, from winter 2009-2010. It is 16 pages, and a little over one meg (1.2 megs). mfj-50.pdf — PDF document, 1245Kb Document Actions Print this
Info MindFreedom Journal #50 Here you may download either a PDF or a text version of the MindFreedom Journal #50, published in Winter 2009-2010. PDF of MindFreedom Journal #50 This is a full-color downloadable PDF of MindFreedom Journal #50, from winter 2009-2010. It is 16 pages, and a little over one meg (1.2 megs). Text…
Info On Sunday, 17 July 2011, electroshock survivor and MindFreedom board member Mary Maddock was featured in a full-page piece in a major Irish publication, which you can access here. Jim and Mary Maddock co-founded MindFreedom Ireland. Mary Maddock: Irish Rebel One of the founders of MindFreedom Ireland, Mary Maddock, was featured in…
Info On Sunday, 17 July 2011, electroshock survivor and MindFreedom board member Mary Maddock was featured in a full-page piece in a major Irish publication, which you can access here. Jim and Mary Maddock co-founded MindFreedom Ireland. Mary Maddock: Irish Rebel One of the founders of MindFreedom Ireland, Mary Maddock, was featured in…
Info The Irish Sunday World, on 17 July 2011, profiled Mary Maddock. Mary used to be a nun, and ended up getting forced electroshock, along with coerced psychiatric drugging on which she became dependent. Mary, with help from her husband Jim, got free of the psychiatric system, and founded MindFreedom Ireland. This is a one-page…
Info Canadian authorities are allegedly giving powerful psychiatric drugs to a nine-year-old girl diagnosed autistic, over the united and expressed wishes of the family, according to her father. MindFreedom issued this alert about how you can help. Ayn Van Dyk and her father Derek Hoare: Derek says Ayn is being forcibly drugged over the family’s…
On 12 June 2008, David W. Oaks provided the single keynote address for the major conference “Madness, Citizenship and Social Justice” sponsored by Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Here’s the review provided by the main conference organizer, Professor Robert Menzies. David Oaks’ virtuoso keynote address, “Prospects for a Nonviolent Revolution in the Mental…