Info Past MFI Radio News Releases Here are news releases for past MindFreedom radio shows when they were produced by PRN. Many are available in the MFI archives for you to listen, free. Past MFI Radio News Releases Here are news releases for past MindFreedom radio shows when they were produced by PRN. Many are…
Info Martin Rafferty, coordinator of the Youth Voices for Choices Campaign, created an overview flow chart about the current direction and vision of the effort. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 151.5 kB Document Actions Print this
Info Youth Voices for Choices Campaign A MindFreedom campaign to encourage younger people to speak out about what they would like to see in an empowering and humane mental health care system. Youth Voices for Choices Campaign Diagram Document Actions Print this
Info Document Actions Print this The student newspaper for Northeastern University covered a vigil by MindFreedom Maine outside a speech by Kitty Dukakis in Boston. Ms Dukakis co-authored a book that, while warning of memory problems from electroshock, mainly praises the procedure. MindFreedom members are quoted in the article as saying that the book unfairly…
Info Document Actions Print this This newspaper from the home city of Eli Lilly – Indianapolis – covered the announcement that the Food & Drug Administration is forcing the drug company giant to emphasize a warning about certain hazards related to their psychiatric drug Zyprexa. The article quotes MindFreedom director David Oaks as calling the…
Info Frank Blankenship (chair of MindFreedom Affiliate Support Committee), physician Larry Plumlee (MindFreedom DC), psychologist Al Galves on MindFreedom board, and David Oaks, director of MindFreedom International. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 2.0 MB Document Actions Print this
Info 28 March 2007 – Guest John McCarthy is a psychiatric survivor, a poet, and an activist who helped found MindFreedom Ireland. 600109.oaks032807.mp3 — MP3 audio, 11988Kb Document Actions Print this
Info When the World Psychiatric Association held a special international meeting on the subject of coercion in psychiatry, MindFreedom united with several other organizations of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors to negotiate inclusion in the conference, and create a dialogue. The results were video taped and are now online. [update May 2008] Dorothea Buck…
Info In this news analysis for MFI, Lloyd Ross, a psychologist and human rights activist, ties together the scandals of the way the psychiatric drug Zyprexa was marketed, with the targeting of America’s youth through unscientific mental health screening programs such as TeenScreen. Lloyd encourages you to take action today to support the youth of…
Info Since June 2006, with some interruption for improvement, MindFreedom Radio Show has supported a nonviolent revolution in the mental health system. Leaders, authors, activists, mental health professionals, psychiatric survivors and others who are actively changing and challenging the current mental health system have been featured in live interviews. Listeners have called in from around…