US psychologists limit roles in torture of military prisoners

Info Document Actions Print this A French news service describes the vote of American Psychological Association on Sunday, 19 August 2007, about participation by psychologists in interrogation of prisoners. US psychologists limit roles in torture of military prisoners Date Published: Aug 19, 2007 03:00 AM Source: AFP News Brief The American Psychological Association on Sunday…

Your father’s Soviet Union

Info Document Actions Print this The Chicago Tribune editorial board calls for freeing Larisa Arap, and criticizes coerced psychiatry… in Russia. It’s laudable for the Chicago Tribune and American Psychiatric Association speak out against psychiatric institutionalization and forced psychiatric drugging. It would be helpful if USA media and psychiatric organizations would speak out against the…

Act to Free Larisa Arap

Info Here are three easy actions you can take from home to speak out for the release of journalist/activist Larisa Arap from a Russian psychiatric institution. Three Easy Actions You Can Take to Speak Out for Freedom of Larisa Arap 1) Please contact the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C. and ask for the release of…

Russia: Activist Sent To Psychiatric Unit After Exposing Health Facilities

Info Document Actions Print this An early article by RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty with basic info about lock-up of journalist/activist Larisa Arap in a Russian psychiatric institution. Russia: Activist Sent To Psychiatric Unit After Exposing Health Facilities Date Published: Aug 02, 2007 03:00 AM Author: Chloe Arnold Source: RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty MOSCOW,August 2, 2007 (RFE/RL) — An opposition activist has…

Russia: Is Coercive Psychology Staging A Comeback?

Info Document Actions Print this An article by RadioFree Europe/RadioLiberty about Russian journalist Larisa Arap who is receiving involuntary psychiatric drugging in a Russian psychiatric institution. Russia: Is Coercive Psychology Staging A Comeback? Date Published: Aug 17, 2007 03:00 AM Author: Svetlana Volskaya and Olga Vakhonicheva Source: RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (RFE/RL) — It has been more than…

70 Years of Coercion in German Psychiatric Institutions, Experienced and Witnessed

Info Keynote speech from June 7, 2007, by Dorothea Buck, Honorary Chair of the German Bundesver-band Psychiatrie-Erfahrener, at the congress “Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review”, run by the World Psychiatric Organisation in Dresden, Germany, June 6 – 8, 2007. This is in PDF format. buck-wpa-2007-e.pdf — PDF document, 78Kb Document Actions Print this

MLK on IAACM: Martin Luther King on the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment

Info Here are more than a dozen examples of Martin Luther King, Jr. passionately exclaiming his pride in being “psychologically maladjusted” and repeatedly calling for an International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment (IAACM). [updated 2 July 2012] Please email this ‘thank you’ to all you feel are creatively maladjusted! Did you know you…

MLK on IAACM: Martin Luther King on the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment

Info Here are more than a dozen examples of Martin Luther King, Jr. passionately exclaiming his pride in being “psychologically maladjusted” and repeatedly calling for an International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment (IAACM). [updated 2 July 2012] Please email this ‘thank you’ to all you feel are creatively maladjusted! Did you know you…

MLK on IAACM: Martin Luther King on the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment

Info Here are more than a dozen examples of Martin Luther King, Jr. passionately exclaiming his pride in being “psychologically maladjusted” and repeatedly calling for an International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment (IAACM). [updated 2 July 2012] Please email this ‘thank you’ to all you feel are creatively maladjusted! Did you know you…