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 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 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 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…
Info Guests are all activists who personally experienced the mental health system: Celia Brown, Lauren Tenney, Pat Risser, Ed Knight. Host is psychiatric survivor David Oaks, director of MindFreedom International. Celia Brown is guest on next MADPRIDE RADIO HOUR! The below MAD PRIDE RADIO HOUR on 13 November 2010 was a successful broadcast. You may…
Info Mothers of adults who have been harmed by human rights violations in the mental health system were featured in the most recent free MindFreedom Mad Pride Web Radio show. Also hear Matthew Morrissey, a therapist who has co-authored a book on families of psychaitric survivors. Host is psychiatric survivor David Oaks, director of MindFreedom…
Info Hear the acrhive: Special guests on MindFreedom free web radio on 8 Saturday were electroshock survivors Leonard Roy Frank, Mary Maddock, Loretta Wilson and Ray Sandford. Host: psychiatric survivor David Oaks, MFI director. Leonard Roy Frank is an author, activist and electroshock survivor. UPDATE: The below radio show as successful (despite a few very…
Info Hear survivors of forced outpatient electroshock, Elizabeth Ellis and Ray Sandford. Plus hear from activists who testified at last months’ FDA hearings on the device: Shock survivors Dorothy Dundas and Loretta Wilson, plus psychologist John Breeding. Special host: Celia Brown, MindFreedom board president. Plus callers! Show successfully aired on Saturday, 12 February 2011. Dorothy…
Info Guests: Marcia Meyers & Ray Sandford. Plus your live calls. This show aired successfully on Saturday, 12 March 2011. Marcia is the mother of an adult trapped in mental health system, and is affiliated with Unitarian Universalists in Portland. Ray Sandford survived forced electroshock while in Anoka, the Minnesota psychiatric institution where Elizabeth Ellis…
Info Hear the excitement as we broadcast from the “Rethinking Psychiatry” grassroots mental health justice fair held recently, 14 May 2011, in Portland, Oregon. Hear the latest news, interview participants at the conference, and take your calls. Three of the participants: Tom (founder of 1969 group Insane Liberation Front), Ron Unger (chair, MindFreedom Lane County),…