MindFreedom International: Mental Health Rights and Alternative Mental Health

(Published: Jan 09, 2017 12:00 AM)

MindFreedom has been busy in 2016 and looks forward to a potent New Year in 2017

(Published: Nov 30, 2015 06:49 PM)

Interview with Mary Maddock, MindFreedom Ireland on Irish News Radio Show

(Published: Oct 28, 2015 02:50 PM)

Mindfreedom Ghana and other advocates participated in the Street March in Cape Coast Central Region, Ghana as part of their activities to mark World Mental Health Day 2015.

(Published: Dec 30, 2014 02:05 AM)

Special thanks to Celia Brown for collecting these notes from last summer’s successful Creative Revolution conference at the Wisdom House in Connecticut.

(Published: Jan 03, 2015 06:15 PM)

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

(Published: Dec 30, 2014 02:05 AM)

Special thanks to Celia Brown for collecting these notes from last summer’s successful Creative Revolution conference at the Wisdom House in Connecticut.

(Published: Apr 29, 2014 07:10 AM)

是精神病药物的唯一的解决办法？ 关于从美国精神病A片。有希望。

(Published: Apr 19, 2013 11:53 AM)

Results from the largest randomized, double-blind trial of compulsory outpatient treatment yet conducted show that the intervention — while dramatically increasing the amount of time an individual is subjected to compulsory medical interventions (and deprived of essential liberties) — does not reduce hospital readmissions or improve social/clinical outcomes when compared to inpatient hospitalization.

(Published: Mar 14, 2013 03:44 PM)

Feminst icon Kate Millett, a long time Bowery resident and author of “Sexual Politics,” a seminal book on oppressive gender roles in literature, received word yesterday afternoon that she and eight other American women, including House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and the late Republican First Lady Betty Ford, have been named as inductees into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca, N.Y., site of the first women’s rights convention in 1848.

(Published: Mar 14, 2013 01:35 PM)

In a statement to a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 4, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment called for a ban on forced psychiatric interventions including forced drugging, shock, psychosurgery, restraint and seclusion, and for repeal of laws that allow compulsory mental health treatment and deprivation of liberty based on disability, including when it is motivated by “protection of the person or others.”

(Published: Jan 10, 2013 12:23 PM)

Dr. Peter Breggin, author of “Medication Madness” and “Toxic Psychiatry” (among other books) was the medical expert in a successful suicide malpractice suit involving the antidepressants Paxil and Effexor.

(Published: Oct 24, 2012 08:15 PM)

A British newspaper reports about an Islamic family’s “disgusted” allegations that a family member was given involuntary electroshock over her and her family’s wishes.

(Published: Sep 12, 2012 01:30 PM)

The New York Times obituary on death of psychiatrist, author, academic and critic of his own mental health profession, Thomas Szasz, MD.

(Published: Aug 21, 2012 05:45 PM)

The editor of a prestigious mental health industry publication – the British Journal of Psychiatry – claims it is time to “call for an end” to the psychiatric drug “revolution” that he said began in 1952. He mentions problems with the neuroleptic drugs (also called ‘antipsychotics’) but note he leaves out the lobotomy effect of structural brain changes such as frontal lobe shrinkage, well known to be linked to long-term high-dosage neuroleptics.

(Published: Aug 03, 2012 03:20 PM)

Psychiatric survivor activist and author Mary Maddock, co-founder of MindFreedom Ireland, may get one of the last words in a debate in one of Ireland’s main newspapers about the psychiatric industry. Mary had a letter published about her personal decision to successfully quit psychiatric drugs. Said Mary, “It is very difficult to get a letter published in the Irish Times. I couldn’t believe they even included MindFreedom Ireland!”

(Published: Jul 25, 2012 12:07 PM)

Long-time national mental health peer leader, Laura Van Tosh, spoke in Eugene, Oregon about her quest for well-being, including quitting her psychiatric drugs. This reporter covered the event, which took place at the Lane County, Oregon’s mental health consumer/survivor advisory council.