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The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Massachusetts uses pain to try to change behavior of young people in Massachusetts diagnosed with mental disabilities. Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) investigated, and told the UN it’s “torture.” ABC-TV reports that a UN representative agreed it’s “torture.” MindFreedom International called it “psychiatric torture.” But psychiatrist and Harvard law…
I challenge the editors of The San Francisco Chronicle to voluntarily try taking a strong dose of an antipsychotic psychiatric medication, also known as a neuroleptic. See what it’s like. The Chronicle editors has been spending Spring 2010 promoting and pushing laws to make it easier to forcibly give psychiatric drugs to people living outside…
SAFE, Inc. sued Lane County, Oregon. After three weeks of testimony, the jury reached its decision on Friday, 4 June 2010. While the jury ruled against SAFE, Inc., the jury awarded Lane County no money. Here is a forwarded news release provided by SAFE, Inc. following that decision, and the authors are responsible for the…
The Eugene Register-Guard published four stories in Spring 2010 about the challenges facing the community center run mainly by mental health consumers in Springfield, Oregon, known as SAFE, Inc. Also known as Wonderland, they ran a mental health clinic Valia. Lane County shut down the program, and SAFE, Inc. sued. Below are the Register-Guard stories…
Here is the text used for a keynote speech delivered by David W. Oaks on 7 May 2010 at the PsychOut Conference, in Toronto, Canada. The actual speech as delivered was a bit different and somewhat abridged. PsychOUT: A Conference for Organizing Resistance Against Psychiatry 7 May 2010 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada Planet…
On Saturday, 8 May 2010, at the end of the PsychOUT conference, participants worked on the wording of a resolution about electroshock. Electroshock: Position of the PsychOut Conference 1. WHEREAS research has established to a level of statistical significance that electroshock causes brain damage by causing seizure and through the electrical current, and indeed, that…
Every USA State must have a plan to show how they are helping people inside psychiatric and other institutions get integrated into least restrictive alternatives in the community. Here’s how to read Oregon’s latest draft. You may download a PDF of Oregon’s proposed “final draft” 2010 Olmstead Plan. Just the first 17 pages are the…
It’s been two years since Esmin Green’s death in a psychiatric emergency room in New York State was caught so vividly by a security camera, and made international news. What has changed? We The People is holding protest and vigil to speak out. MindFreedom New York supports this important event. what Protest when Jun 18,…
Working for human rights in mental health can have a lot of side effects. For instance, you can be named a “witch” publicly on a strange web site! Well, it’s finally happened. Someone has actually publicly claimed I’m a “witch.” First of all, I’m not. But what is strangest is that the individual making the…