Info Dissident psychologist, author and playwright PAULA CAPLAN, PhD was guest on this Live Free MindFreedom Web Radio Call-in Show. She tells us why psychiatric labeling can be harmful, and why she is speaking at a protest of the American Psychiatric Association. Host: David Oaks. Above: Paula Caplan is a psychologist and playwright who is…
Info Sat., 12 December: What is your vision of a nonviolent revolution in mental health in 2010? Your calls are welcome on the next MindFreedom Mad Pride Live Web Radio show. Listen and call in live. Celia Brown, psychiatric survivor, MindFreedom board president, and United Nations leader. Your calls are welcome on this next live…
Info Attorney, activist, psychiatric survivor JIM GOTTSTEIN of Alaska was the guest on the Free MindFreedom Web Radio Show. Listen as Jim tells us why we should all “Occupy the American Psychiatric Association.” Host: David Oaks. Above: Jim Gottstein – psychiatric survivor attorney – is protesting the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. The below was…
Info On 13 February 2010, psychiatric survivor activists Lauren Tenney and Jim Gottstein (pictured here) were guests on MindFreedom Mad Pride Live Web Radio show. You can listen to the archive.. Host was David W. Oaks, Director of MindFreedom International. Lauren Tenney and Jim Gottstein are guests on MindFreedom Live Free Web Radio. [Update: This…
Info Psychiatric survivor activists Ted Chabasinski and Laura Delano (photo on right) explained why they are going to Philadelphia to protest the American Psychiatric Association’s labeling. Why join them to “Occupy the American Psychiatric Association”? Host: David Oaks. Above: Laura Delano is protesting the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. This was another successful MindFreedom Live…
Info Saturday, 13 March 2010, guests Paula Caplan, Lennard Davis, Dan Fisher and Martin Federman answered live call-in questions on the next MindFreedom Mad Pride Live Web Radio Show. Paula and Dan challenged the expansion of psychiatry’s label bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Dan and Martin remembered the legacy of the late Judi…
Info Why protest the American Psychiatric Association (APA)? Psychiatric rights activists Susan Rogers (photo on right) and Frank Blankenship reported about the protest in Philadelphia of the APA Annual Meeting. “Why – or why not – protest the APA?” Host: Celia Brown. Above: Susan Rogers helped organize the protest of the American Psychiatric Association Annual…
Info Saturday, 8 May 2010, your calls are welcome on a live free web radio broadcast from Toronto, Canada, where the international PsychOut conference is gathering psychiatric survivor and ally activists from throughout the world to resist psychiatric human rights violations. Host is David W. Oaks, Director of MindFreedom International. David W. Oaks will broadcast…
Info How can the psychiatric survivor and disability movements work together? What about the proposed UN disability treaty in the US Senate? Guests David Morrissey, Celia Brown and Krista Erickson, with host David Oaks, are all advocates in these movements. Above: David Morrissey is a leader in the disability movement, and director of USICD in…
Info Update: This was a successful show, you can hear the archive. Guests: Journalist Robert Whitaker is the author of the new book, “Anatomy of an Epidemic,” which says that studies show the main psychiatric drugs are actually increasing the level of mental and emotional problems. Electroshock survivor Linda Andre is author of the book…