Info Document Actions Print this The Village Voice looks at an institution that openly uses pain to try to control behavior of people labeled with mental disabilities. School of Shock: Inside a school where mentally disturbed students are jolted into good behavior Date Published: Oct 10, 2006 03:00 AM Author: Jarrett Murphy Source: Village Voice…
Info BBC News: Professors say psychiatric use of the term “schizophrenia” ought to be abolished because it’s unscientific. American Psychiatric Association members literally vote in and out labels from the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual. BBC – 10 October 2006 The term schizophrenia should be abolished, experts have said. They claim the category falsely groups a…
MINDFREEDOM NEWS RELEASE: 25 September 2003 A coalition of 100 advocacy groups working in the mental health field is condemning experiments with psychiatric drug implants. The Executive Director for MindFreedom Support Coalition International said, “These psychiatric drug implant devices currently in development are inherently coercive. They violate core principles of self-determination, empowerment and human rights.…
Info Psychiatric Drug Implants University of Pennsylvania researchers are experimenting on an implantable disk under the skin that would time-release powerful neuroleptic psychiatric drugs for up to one year. Controversial Implant Sparks ‘Town Hall’ This brief Newsday article sums up a few of the ethical issues emerging from the experimental new technology of psychiatric drug…
Info An Overview of Psychiatric Abuse Duty of ‘Care’: Is it Ethical? by Anna de Jonge A paper presented by Anna de Jonge, a MindFreedom sponsor group leader in New Zealand, about psychiatric human rights violations. Document Actions Print this
Info A paper presented by Anna de Jonge, a MindFreedom sponsor group leader in New Zealand, about psychiatric human rights violations. Women’s Studies Conference PaperPresented: 26 November, 2005 at Auckland UniversityTitle of the Paper: Duty of “Care” is it Ethical?Presented by Anna de JongeMembers of Patients’ Rights Advocacy65 Tawa Street Hamilton 2001 New ZealandPh:Fax:+64 7…
Info Psychiatric Labels Harm caused by unscientific psychiatric diagnoses. Psychiatry’s bible, the DSM, is doing more harm than good Psychologist Paula Caplan skewers psychiatry’s newest “Label Bible.” Here is a WASHINGTON POST opinion piece by author and clinical psychologist Paula Caplan, PhD, highly critical of psychiatry’s latest “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.” Please forward. At end…
Info Leonard Roy Frank is a survivor of forced electroshock, a long-time human rights activist, an expert editor of quotations, and a passionate MindFreedom supporter. Here is Leonard’s news release about his new book of quotations available online for free. Leonard Roy Frank (left) speaks with electroshock activist Kris Yates at a MindFreedom event. [photo…
Info Document Actions Print this Paula Caplan, PhD is an author, psychologist and long-time critic of psychiatric labeling. Paula is also a MindFreedom activist who has attended the MindFreedom Action Conference, and is providing some great information to members about how to fight abuse caused by psychiatric labeling. Psychiatric Labels Plague Women’s Mental Health Date…