American Psychiatric Association Headquarters Found to be “Normal Free”

Yesterday, on 11 October 2007, a MindFreedom International expert “Normality Screening Team” visited outside the American Psychiatric Association headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. The results: No normality found. For me a normality screening like this is 50 percent effective public education, as delighted people participated. They were glad to hear they were ‘normality free’ and accepted…

How to Screen Yourself for Normality for Free!

You can take this free and easy self-test for normality wherever you are. It’s one more step to screening the whole world for normality. Screen the World for Normality! Thursday, 11 October 2007 Screen Yourself for Normality! by David W. Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International WASHINGTON, D.C.: Today has been declared “Mental Health Screening Day” by…

Will We Find Normality?

The mental health industry has named today Mental Health Screening Day. MindFreedom launched a campaign to Screen the World for Normality. Will we find it? WASHINGTON, DC: I’m typing this from the motel we are staying at here in our nation’s Capitol. So far, no signs of normality. In a few hours, our crew of MindFreedom…

To Dialogue or Not to Dialogue (With Anyone)?

Info Filed Under: activism MindFreedom is encouraging mediated dialogue and negotiation with organizations representing psychiatric and other mental health professionals, under some circumstances. What do you think? MindFreedom worked with several other mental health consumer and psychiatric survivor organizations to provide representatives to attend a meeting of the World Psychiatric Association in Dresden, Germany in…

Debate on forced outpatient psychiatric drugging

National Public Radio’s show “Justice Talking” featured discussions with representatives of ‘both sides of the story’ about the issue of involuntary psychiatric drugging of people out in their own neighborhoods and homes using court orders. Michael Allen defends freedom of choice in mental health care on National Public Radio. MICHAEL ALLEN, a MindFreedom member in…