Info Anna Schuleit’s Flower Art in “Mass Mental” Just before the infamous “Mass. Mental” (formally known as Massachusetts Mental Health Center) was being shut for good, artist Anna Schuleit created an art installation with nearly 28,000 potted flowers. Here are news items about the art event. Bloom: 28,000 Potted Flowers Installed at the Massachusetts Mental…
Too often I have rued, lamented, the fact that I am so demented. I wonder what the reasons are that cause me to be so bizarre. While other people act quite sane I do strange things that are inane. Against my plight I’ve raged and railed; I’ve grieved, protested, shrieked and wailed. I’ve searched for…
A poem by Tom Greening. DRUG EFFECTS I will ignore your righteous shrugs and keep on gulping lots of drugs. I know they are not good for me but they fend off reality. Some drugs are pink and others blue, but all I care is what they do. They cheer me up, they calm…
Why do I have these wild relapses? I blame them on my sick synapses. My brain lacks neural density resulting in sub par plasticity. With neurons frayed, flawed, and deficient my coping skills are insufficient. That’s why I want to kiss and hug the doc who gives me some new drug each month and blithely…
Although I think that I’m just fine my friends claim that I’m borderline. Each time I rant and rave a bit they say that I have had a fit. They diagnose me as a nut and then they try to drug me but I know that God is on my side and that I’ll soon…
by Tom Greening QUACK I could lose my license for offering this experimental treatment unproven by clinical trials and double-blind studies. No glossy brochures or stylish advertising with testimonials tout its benefits and safety. Still I go on peddling my home brew to those who suffer, and hope someday scientists will find a way…
Info Filmmaker Daniel Mackler visited the innovative Open Dialogue model in Finland, and made a film available via DVD. Here’s his brief description of Open Dialogue and the film, and how to obtain it. OPEN DIALOGUE: An Alternative, Finnish Approach to Healing Psychosis By Daniel Mackler In the far north of Finland, a stone’s throw…
Info Dr. Benedetto Saraceno is a psychiatrist trained in public health who served as Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse of the World Health Organization (WHO) until February 2010. While at WHO, Dr. Saraceno has made a number of supportive statements about MindFreedom International and its director, David Oaks. Dr. Saraceno…
Info Dr. Brent Potter has organized a panel to speak about the life and work of R.D. Laing, the controversial psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and human rights advocate, who Dr. Potter states, “laid the groundwork for therapeutic households, mental health law reform, and the peer recovery movement.” What Panel When Mar 30, 2012 from 12:05 AM to…
Info Document Actions Print this Bruce Levine is a courageous psychologist and author in Cincinnati, Ohio, who makes the connection between changing the mental health system and changing society itself. In this Alternet essay he gives seven reasons why he and many other dissident mental health professionals have chosen to rebel against their own industry.…