Info Document Actions Print this This article in the San Francisco Weekly mentions MindFreedom and quotes MFI board member Matt Morrissey from the MFI sponsor group Full Spectrum. The writer explores the life and perspective of those struggling to find non-drug alternatives for mental and emotional problems and differences. Just Say No Date Published: May…
Info Here are more than a dozen examples of Martin Luther King, Jr. passionately exclaiming his pride in being “psychologically maladjusted” and repeatedly calling for an International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment (IAACM). [updated 2 July 2012] Please email this ‘thank you’ to all you feel are creatively maladjusted! Did you know you…
Info Representatives from several psychiatric survivor and mental health consumer/user organizations met with leaders of the World Psychiatric Association here in Dresden, Germany. Here is a news briefing by David Oaks, Director of MindFreedom International President of WPA thanks Dorothea Buck for keynote. June 2007 Top Global Psychiatry Leaders Meet with United Psychiatric Survivor/Mental Health…
Info One of the participants in BonkersFest was this Bonker Bird. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 3.8 kB Document Actions Print this
Info MindFreedom Mad Pride A short clip of what’s to come regardling MindFreedom’s “jump” into the age of video logging. Let us know if you enjoyed our first clip and would like to see more! The footage is taken from an event in Eugene OR. The event took place early May 2007. This was a…
Info Protests were held on Mothers Day, 13 May 2007, in Ireland, Toronto and Montreal. Here are photos and reports from all three. MindFreedom Ireland Protests Electroshock in Cork on Mother’s Day 13 May 2007 in solidarity with protests in Toronto & Montreal. For report and photo from Toronto protest click here. For report…
Info Videos Site Videos Celebrate “Nobility of Weirdness” with Dr. Carl Hammerschlag and MindFreedom Dr. Carl Hammerschlag, a psychiatrist deeply concerned about changing the current mental health system, speaks with MindFreedom International at the Oregon Country Fair 2011. Read More… Hugh Hugh tells the story of his long path to physical and mental wellness. It…
Info Videos Site Videos Mad Minutes One The First Mad Minutes. Want to sumbit your own Mad Minutes? Get a friend to interview you asking three simple questions. What Have You Survived? What Would You Have Rather Experienced? And then your name, location and say “Mad Pride!”. Read More… Mad Minutes Promotional A video introducing…
Info BonkersFest 2007 on 2 June 2007 was a wonderful success. There was a celebration of music, creativity, poetry, and strangeness! Mad Pride UK was one of the sponsors. Here is a photo from the launch, the moment when bananas were launched from a large cannon. BonkersFest 2007 began with the launch of bananas. Photo…
Info Document Actions Print this The publication National Journal ran an article that seems to slant toward more forced psychiatric procedures, and appears to blame the 1960’s “counter-culture” for the Virginia Tech tragedy. But at least the piece quotes MindFreedom director David Oaks a few times, such as about the importance of hearing from those…