Info Creative Maladjustment Week is finally here!The week of July 7-14th 2013 we are definitely boycotting “normal” and raising awareness about human rights in the mental health system!Read more to find out about the events we have planned for Lane County, Oregon… Creative Maladjustment Week is here!July 7-14th 2013 we are Boycotting Normal and Raising…
Info Activist psychologist Paula Caplan celebrates Creative Maladjustment Week by sharing her play ‘Call me Crazy’ As many of you know, the subject of psychiatric diagnosis has been hotly debated in the news recently. A play I wrote called CALL ME CRAZY — a comedy-drama with music — is about psych diagnosis and, when done…
Info Activist psychologist Paula Caplan celebrates Creative Maladjustment week by sharing her play ‘Call Me Crazy’. For the first time this play has been filmed before a live audience. Watch the video here! How will you celebrate Creative Maladjustment week? Activist, psychologist, author and playwright Paula Caplan Paula Caplan’s play explores psychiatric labeling with comedic…
Download this 8.5×11 poster and share it with anyone you know who might be interested in protesting the APA’s 2013 conference in San Francisco, CA! CLICK HERE to download the protest poster now!
To celebrate 25 years of changing the mental health system, MindFreedom introduces the limited edition Mad Pride t-shirt! Thank you to Sarah Smith, mother of a psychiatric survivor, for posing in the new MFI t-shirt! Click on the image to see more detail. Check it out! MFI’s 25th Anniversary Mad Pride T-Shirt! Phone in your…
Across the street from the hotel where Alternatives 2012 was held, a protest organized by MFI Members took place on a rainy October day. The skies anointed our small group with rain. On 12 October, 2012 at 4:30pm PST, about 40 folks who were attending the Alternatives conference joined MFI as we protested against the…
Info MindFreedom needs YOU to help move our nonviolent revolution in mental health care forward. Get started by taking the volunteer survey (bit.ly/mfi-volunteer) now! Join MindFreedom’s non-violent revolution for human rights in mental health care! Take the new volunteer survey at: http://bit.ly/mfi-volunteer VOLUNTEER! Take our VOLUNTEER SKILLS SURVEY and we’ll find a way to play…
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…
As part of the MFI Initiative on Food Justice & Mental Health, a guide of links is being created on the topic. This will be an ongoing growing list. Food and Mood: Partners in Crime: Resources Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault http://coalitionagainstpsychiatricassault.com/ PsychOut 2011 http://www.theopalproject.org/psychout.html MindFreedom International https://mindfreedom.org/ Sandra Sweetman http://www.mydivineblueprint.com/ Sandi Lyotomaki : The Conscious Traveller http://www.conscioustraveller.com/ In Defense…
Info On February 17th (Giordano Bruno Day), David thanks his supporters and urges them to celebrate their CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT! Learn more about the upcoming Creative Maladjustment Week (July 7-July 14, 2013) at the NEW website: www.cmweek.org. You’ll see creative ideas for events you can host anywhere in the world to honor the creatively maladjusted,…