Info The AMPLIFY training unites mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, with allies, especially in the cross-disability movement. AMPLIFY has been given successfully throughout Oregon, plus in Ghana (see photo), Africa and Mexico City. Here’s how YOU can bring it to your area. Here’s your chance to bring an exciting training to your community…
Info Here’s the handout used for the Portland, Oregon AMPLIFY workshop on mental health consumers/psychiatric survivors building on the strength of the cross-disability movement. amplify-201108-pdx-handouts.doc — Microsoft Word Document, 103Kb Document Actions Print this
Info Bjo Ashwill from LILA CIL and David Oaks, director of MindFreedom International, co-presented an AMPLIFY workshop in Portland Oregon in August 2011. Here’s their PowerPoint. amplify-201108-pdx.ppt — Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, 2505Kb Document Actions Print this
Here is basic information about the historic 2003 hunger strike sponsored by MindFreedom International to demand evidence from the American Psychiatric Association and other mental health organizations of any “biological basis” of any major psychiatric disorder. This is your portal to information about the 2003 Fast for Freedom in Mental Health. Announcement and news release…
Info MindFreedom has been informed that member Lynne Salvi died on 23 September 2011, according to police after driving her car off of a bridge in Portland. Everyone in the MindFreedom community sends our deepest support to family, friends and loved ones of Lynne. Here is a link to the news item about Lynne’s death,…
Info MindFreedom has been informed that member Lynne Salvi died on 23 September 2011, according to police after driving her car off of a bridge in Portland. Everyone in the MindFreedom community sends our deepest support to family, friends and loved ones of Lynne. Here is a link to the news item about Lynne’s death,…
Info Document Actions Print this Lynne Salvi attended a number of MindFreedom Lane County meetings in Summer of 2011. She was quite a writer. Lynne died when she drove off a bridge in Portland on 23 September 2011. A little more than a month before, on 13 August 2011, Lynne had submitted this “Open Letter”…
A poem about how various family members abuse one member in the family, and then make that person out to be the mentally ill one because of how s/he reacts to their abuse. What’s Wrong With Bess? Author: Liz Purcell What’s Wrong with Bess? What’swrongwith Bess? They like to say. She seldom ever. Wants to . . . play. Or have her hair. Done up in curls. As is the way. Of normal . . . girls. What’s wrong with Bess? She sure is queer. It’s good the rest of…
Info Document Actions Print this The well-respected UK newspaper The Guardian published this piece criticizing the over-use of psychiatric labeling, and the way the process is “medicalizing” what is considered “normal.” The Mental Illness Industry Is Medicalising Normality Date Published: Sep 06, 2011 12:00 AM Author: Lisa Appignanesi Source: The Guardian, UK A Reading…
Info Document Actions Print this The publication The Age reports on psychiatric abuse in Australia, including 377 individuals in Victoria who received electroshock (also known as electroconvulsive therapy or ECT) without their consent. Forced Electroshock in Australia Date Published: Sep 05, 2011 12:00 AM Author: Richard Baker & Nick McKenzie Source: The Age, Victoria, Australia…