The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Massachusetts uses pain to try to change behavior of young people in Massachusetts diagnosed with mental disabilities. Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) investigated, and told the UN it’s “torture.” ABC-TV reports that a UN representative agreed it’s “torture.” MindFreedom International called it “psychiatric torture.” But psychiatrist and Harvard law…
Info Document Actions Print this The Torch is the newspaper for Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, USA. After student columnist Haydenn Harper was widely criticized for his language in an article he wrote for the Torch about allegedly “crazy” people he saw on the bus, he investigated the topic of psychiatric labeling with several…
Info A 28-year-old woman from Lithuania, who has trouble with English, was being heavily forcibly drugged while held in extended ongoing involuntary lock-ups at the notorious Western State Hospital. Her family and friends asked that she be released. MindFreedom issued the below alert. UPDATE 24 AUGUST 2010: THIS CAMPAIGN HAS WON! Emily was freed 24…
Info MindFreedom State of Washington MindFreedom State of Washington is an affiliate of MindFreedom International. Alert helps free Emily Darguzhyte who was locked inside Western State Hospital A 28-year-old woman from Lithuania, who has trouble with English, was being heavily forcibly drugged while held in extended ongoing involuntary lock-ups at the notorious Western State…
I challenge the editors of The San Francisco Chronicle to voluntarily try taking a strong dose of an antipsychotic psychiatric medication, also known as a neuroleptic. See what it’s like. The Chronicle editors has been spending Spring 2010 promoting and pushing laws to make it easier to forcibly give psychiatric drugs to people living outside…
SAFE, Inc. sued Lane County, Oregon. After three weeks of testimony, the jury reached its decision on Friday, 4 June 2010. While the jury ruled against SAFE, Inc., the jury awarded Lane County no money. Here is a forwarded news release provided by SAFE, Inc. following that decision, and the authors are responsible for the…
The Eugene Register-Guard published four stories in Spring 2010 about the challenges facing the community center run mainly by mental health consumers in Springfield, Oregon, known as SAFE, Inc. Also known as Wonderland, they ran a mental health clinic Valia. Lane County shut down the program, and SAFE, Inc. sued. Below are the Register-Guard stories…
Here is the text used for a keynote speech delivered by David W. Oaks on 7 May 2010 at the PsychOut Conference, in Toronto, Canada. The actual speech as delivered was a bit different and somewhat abridged. PsychOUT: A Conference for Organizing Resistance Against Psychiatry 7 May 2010 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada Planet…
On Saturday, 8 May 2010, at the end of the PsychOUT conference, participants worked on the wording of a resolution about electroshock. Electroshock: Position of the PsychOut Conference 1. WHEREAS research has established to a level of statistical significance that electroshock causes brain damage by causing seizure and through the electrical current, and indeed, that…
Info [Updated 5 June 2010] Survivors of psychiatric human rights violations and their allies from more than five countries gathered for three days — from 7 to 9 May 2010 — in Toronto Canada for a conference and protest dedicated to “Organized Resistance Against Psychiatry.” Here is brief coverage including a photo essay by David…