Info 2003 Actions Read about the MindFreedom Hunger Strike and march on the APA. MindFreedom Hunger Strike On 16 August 2003, MindFreedom launched an historic hunger strike that won international media publicity. The simple demand to the psychiatric system was this: Produce scientific evidence about why a single model — the medical theory of ‘chemical…
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t Actions Print this This is an article critical of “anti-depressant” psychiatric drugs from a publication in Vancouver, Canada called Common Ground. Anti-depressants: prescription to suicide Date Published: Jul 01, 2006 03:00 AM Author: Angela Bischoff Source: Common Ground, Vancouver, Canada I’m a suicide survivor. My soulmate of 17 years, Tooker Gomberg, committed suicide March 3, 2004.…
Info Document Actions Print this A guest column by dissdent mental health worker and MindFreedom Lane County activist Ron Unger says that a range of real choices in mental health care is crucial for for recovery. Mental health system due for radical reform Date Published: Oct 12, 2006 03:00 AM Author: Ron Unger Source: Register-Guard,…
Info James P. Chasse, Jr. was a resident of Portland, Oregon, USA diagnosed schizophrenic who died in police custody. Psychiatric survivors and mental health consumers marched from the Alternatives 2006 conference to a memorial on 27 October 2006. Participants in Alternatives 2006 prepare to march to Jim Chasse memorial. (Photo: MindFreedom) James P. Chasse, Jr.…
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…
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…