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,…
Info A message from the Staff and Board of MindFreedom International On 1 December 2012, MFI Executive Director David Oaks sustained a serious injury from a fall which resulted in him breaking his neck. While trying to get news out to members and support David and his family, we invited people to support not only MFI but…
Info Well over 1,000 individuals – many of them MindFreedom members and supporters – participated in this important survey gathering information on messages of hopelessness in mental health care. Download the results now. You can download the Hope in Mental Health Care final survey summary here. Click here to download the final survey summary. The…
Info A letter from David, who says: “The silver lining in this event has been witnessing the love between us all.” David accepts an award from the Eugene Human Rights Commission in 2003. Photo by John Jordan-Cascade Dear Friends, family, colleagues, and supporters, After 4 decades as a psychiatric survivor human rights activist and 3…
Info Paula J. Caplan, dissident psychologist and human rights activist, is working with a group of psychiatric survivors and allies to officially call upon the American Psychiatric Association [APA] to stop the harm that often results from psychiatric diagnosis. Jenny McClendon, one of the DSM 9, has told her story of harm by psychiatric diagnosis…
Donate to the special MindFreedom fund honoring David W. Oaks to boost the MFI projects nearest and dearest to his heart! As many of you know, our founder and executive director for the past 25+ years, David Oaks, recently suffered a serious accident and broke the C7 bone in his neck. David has a long…