Info Veterans Mental Health Present and former military personnel and their family are often denied adequate alternatives and advocacy for mental and emotional well being. A troubling diagnosis in Iraq Associated Press reports that a US soldier accused of murdering a family in Iraq had previously disclosed his desire to kill innocent Iraqui civilians, but…
Info An Electroshock Quotationary edited by psychiatric survivor Leonard Roy Frank is available as a free PDF download. frank-electroshock-quotationery.pdf — PDF document, 5037Kb Document Actions Print this
Info Psychiatric Institutionalization Stories and information challenging the use of coerced lock-ups in psychiatric institutions. Psychiatric Abuse of Walter Vetsch MindFreedom member Walter Vetsch has chronicled his ordeals as a college student in the 1960s who was tortured by psychiatrists for seven years after the university psychiatrist said he was “schizophrenic” and ordered his commitment.…
Info MFI has reports of an alarming increase in the use of brain altering technology for the psychiatric purposes, and issued this statement. Example of an rTMS high-powered device in use today. MindFreedom International Statement on the Rise of Brain Altering Technologies Today by David Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International Because of anecdotal reports, medical articles…
Info Brain Altering Technology Experiments Psychosurgery, vagus nerve stimulation, and rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation) are all examples of brain altering technology that may be used for psychiatric purposes and that are currently openly used internationally. MFI Statement on the Rise of Brain Altering Technologies Today MFI has reports of an alarming increase in the…
Info Document Actions Print this An opinion piece opposing forced psychiatric drugging. Those labeled “mentally ill” should be helped, not forcibly drugged Date Published: Oct 24, 2006 03:00 AM Author: Al Galves, PhD Source: Las Cruces Sun-News, New Mexico, USA There’s a movement in New Mexico to adopt a state law that would authorize courts…
Info African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in Mental Health Systemsby Vanessa Jackson inourownvoice.pdf — PDF document, 380Kb Document Actions Print this
Info Native Perspectives on the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indiansby Pemina Yellow Bird wild-indians.pdf — PDF document, 791Kb Document Actions Print this
Info Racism Wild Indians Native Perspectives on the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indiansby Pemina Yellow Bird In Our Own Voice African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in Mental Health Systemsby Vanessa Jackson Document Actions Print this
Info Psychiatric Coercion Techniques ranging from pressure to out right force in the mental health system. Those labeled “mentally ill” should be helped, not forcibly drugged An opinion piece opposing forced psychiatric drugging. Outpatient Forced Psychiatry More and more citizens are required to take super-powerful psychiatric drugs against their will while living in their own…