Info A panel on the movement to change the mental health system and its connection to wider struggles for civil rights was held in Eugene, Oregon on 15 January 2010. The speeches by David Oaks, Tracey “TC” Dumas, and Ron Unger are now available online as text, video or audio. Tracy “TC” Dumas, PhD…
Info Document Actions Print this In this New York Times article, Ethan Watters explores the impact of the spread of American culture on the understanding of mental health issues outside of the United States. “The Americanization of Mental Illness” Date Published: Jan 10, 2010 12:00 AM Author: Ethan Watters Source: The New York Times For…
Info Electroshock, Oregon, mental health, and MindFreedom are all topics of a three-part interview with MindFreedom director David Oaks that was run in the Portland Examiner, on 19 January 2010. Reporter Jenny Westberg, who covers mental health for Portland Examiner. Reporter Jenny Westberg interviewed MindFreedom director David Oaks about a wide range of subjects: Part…
Info Leah Harris, a second generation psychiatric survivor, discovered MindFreedom in 2000 when she was 25 years old. Her first act in the mad movement was to tell her story of oppression and resistance, and to help edit stories for MindFreedom’s Oral History Project. Since then, she has been working in various ways to help…
Info Document Actions Print this This paper offers real-world examples of how therapists can avoid resorting to coercive interventions while attempting to respectfully help those in severe distress. (Author is responsible for content.) Therapy Without Force: A Treatment Model for Severe Psychiatric Problems Date Published: Jan 21, 2010 12:00 AM Author: Daniel Mackler, LCSW Therapy…
Info MindFreedom International proudly lunched the MFI Academic Alliance in February 2010. The Alliance is designed as a resource to better link independent mental health activism with the world of academia by listing scholars and research groups who are working toward the empowerment and rights of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. It is also…
Info Document Actions Print this The Reuters news service covers a new scientific study that shows that the number of children in the USA two to five years old who are labeled “bipolar” who put on the powerful neuroleptic or “antipsychotic” psychiatric drugs has doubled in the past decade. Bipolar diagnosis jumps in young children:…
Info Document Actions Print this The conservative newspaper Washington Times published this guest column by two professors concerned that psychiatry’s unscientific labeling may harm attempts to implement universal health care in the USA. Mental health Trojan horse – It’s enough to make anyone sick Date Published: Dec 31, 2009 12:00 AM Author: Richard E. Vatz…
Recently, the American Psychiatric Association announced a one year delay in publishing the next version of their “label bible.” Good, let this delay be extended forever. In fact, concern about psychiatry’s bullying labeling of people is uniting both the right wing and the left wing! I was heartened to read that the American Psychiatric Association…
Info MindFreedom Ireland MF(lrl) is a proud affiliate in MindFreedom International. MF(lrl) can look back at its performance during the year and report significant progress on a number of fronts. Jim and Mary Maddock, co-founders of MindFreedom Ireland, in photo from 2009 Irish Times article about MindFreedom Ireland and camnpaign against forced electroshock. …