Info From the organizers: “The conference will bring together organisations, activists, campaigners and academics working for radical challenge and change in mental health. It will showcase critical work on psychiatry and psychology (‘Big Psy’) and the pharmaceutical industry (‘Big Pharma’), and alternatives to diagnostic medical labels like ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘paranoia’.” This event is being held…
Info The Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, B.C., is hosting conference on madness and society, to be held on June 12-15, 2008. MindFreedom director David W. Oaks is giving a keynote speech at the conference. What Convention When Jun 12, 2008 01:00 AM to Jun 15, 2008 01:00 AM Where…
Info Video of protest of Eastern European Psychiatric Congress This is a brief video of a nonviolent protest using banners and guerilla theater at the “First Eastern European Psychiatric Congress” in Thessaloniki, Greece on 21 September 2007. The protest was by the Pan-Hellenic Coalition for Psychiatric Reform. To view this content the following requirements must…
Info Eastern Europe Activism regarding Eastern European psychiatric human rights violations. Declaration from protest of Eastern European Psychiatric Congress A nonviolent protest using banners and guerilla theater was held in and outside of the “First Eastern European Psychiatric Congress” in Thessaloniki, Greece on 21 September 2007. The protest was by the Pan-Hellenic Coalition for Psychiatric…
Info A nonviolent protest using banners and guerilla theater was held in and outside of the “First Eastern European Psychiatric Congress” in Thessaloniki, Greece on 21 September 2007. The protest was by the Pan-Hellenic Coalition for Psychiatric Reform. There is a link to a brief video of the action that you may watch. Protesters used…
Info IAACM – Creative Maladjustment International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment – Fulfilling Martin Luther King’s Vision David Oaks on the IAACM YouTube video: David Oaks describes a new MadPride initiative, the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment (IAACM) inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.. Oaks calls for activists to help…
Info Maria Duerr presented this thesis about the history of the psychiatric survivor movement for her Masters Degree in Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in June 1996. (This PDF is 141 pages.) maria-duerr-psychiatric-survivor-history.pdf — PDF document, 2343Kb Document Actions Print this
Info Madness Network News, out of the Bay Area of California, helped network thousands of psychiatric survivors and allies internatioanlly. Their logo was a woman breaking free from a strait jacket. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 113.4 kB Document Actions Print this
Info Each year for many years in the 1970’s and 1980’s, there was an annual gathering of psychiatric survivors, usually on a different college campus in the US or Canada. It became known as the “International Conference on Human Rights and Against Psychiatric Oppression.” At the 1982 gathering in Toronto, participants agreed to these principles.…
Info Psychiatric Survivor Movement History The current era of psychiatric survivor and ally activism is generally considered to have begun in about 1970. Principles adopted by 1982 gathering of psychiatric survivors. Each year for many years in the 1970’s and 1980’s, there was an annual gathering of psychiatric survivors, usually on a different college campus…