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Info A volunteer agency at Harvard featured my story. Here are a few reflections about Harvard grad psychiatric survivors (see photo of four of us). Can reach more members of the Harvard community? A Harvard University agency that places students in volunteer positions – Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) – has featured my brief ‘origin…
Info “I want my husband to be home for the holidays…”For many, this season will be remembered as a time of hopelessness and fear. Now is the ideal time to make a statement against forced and coerced psychiatry by supporting MindFreedom International efforts to support psychiatric survivors and their loved ones through a donation or…
The NY Times published an interesting article about how Eva Peron — first lady of Peru in the 1940’s — apparently received a lobotomy. When will society look back at today’s ‘chemical lobotomy’ with neuroleptic antipsychotic drugs? This is an open letter I wrote to Barron H. Lerner, MD, who wrote a column published in…
Date Published: Nov 28, 2011 12:00 AM Author: Anita Guidera Source: Irish Independent You may access the original articles here: http://www.independent.ie/health/health-news/are-antidepressants-the-cure-or-the-problem-2947170.html ARE ANTI-DEPRESSANTS THE CURE …. OR THE PROBLEM? With record numbers of people being prescribed the drugs, doctors on the frontline are divided over their use. Anita Guidera reports. Anti-depressant use is at an…
Kevin McGehee, President of the ShelterCare Consumer Council, appreciated a presentation by David Oaks on 21 October 2011 at the Bill Uhlhorn Program, part of ShelterCare in Eugene, Oregon. David’s commitment to fight “normality,” his desire to help reform mental health services, his empowering others to do the same, and his sense of the absurd……
Rollin Shelton, a long-time advocate for human rights and alternatives of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, gives a recommendation on a number of talks he has heard by David, including “Forming a New State-Wide Coalition in Oregon of Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors!” at the Portland Public Library on 15 February 2008. (A…
Every three years the World Psychiatric Association holds its World Congress. David W. Oaks was a ‘special lecturer” on the topic of human rights at the WPA World Congress in 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic. The title of the talk was, “An Urgent Need for Dialogue About a ‘Global Emergency’ of Human Rights Violations in…
On 29 October 2011, David Oaks was one of the plenary speakers at the annual conference in Los Angeles of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry (ISEPP). The ISEPP director, author and psychologist Al Galves, PhD recommends Oaks for speaking engagements. David Oaks’s plenary presentation at the 2011 conference of the International Society for…
See a new film, free, about how an individual who heard distressing voices found humane forms of help outside of the conventional mental health system. MindFreedom Lane County affiliate, Opal Network and OCSC co-sponsor this free film showing. what Film when Dec 13, 2011 from 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM where Eugene Public Library, Eugene, Oregon contact name…