Info Mad Pride 2005 Mad Pride 2005 Events This 1 July 2005 announcement lists Mad Pride 2005 events in four nations. 2005 Mad Pride Vancouver Report A psychiatric survivor gives an eye-witness report of a warm and wonderful series of Mad Pride events in Vancouver in 2005. Marie Baker of Gallery Gachet winds up the…
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 Abuse in Mental Health System Psychiatric Labels Harm caused by unscientific psychiatric diagnoses. Electroshock Information about electroshock, also called electroconvulsive therapy. An Overview of Psychiatric Abuse School of Shock: Inside a school where mentally disturbed students are jolted into good behavior The Village Voice looks at an institution that openly uses pain to…
Info Psychiatric Drugs A variety of information about psychiatric prescribed medications, including neuroleptic brain damage, deaths and psychiatric drugs, and resources about quitting psychiatric drugs. Antidepressants “Antidepressants’ include psychiatric drugs such as SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) such as Prozac and Zoloft. Hazards Neuroleptics Information about traditional and atypical neuroleptic drugs, also known as…
Info More details about specific events in multiple countries! MAD PRIDE 2006 EVENT LISTING FROM VANCOUVER, CANADA WORLD MAD PRIDE HUMAN RIGHTS + PSYCHIATRY ARTS FESTIVAL! Mad Pride is a growing international movement which asks the question:Could madness be a sane response to an insane world? World Mad Pride Vision:** Build awareness of the connection…
Info Mad Pride 2006 More about Mad Pride 2006… More details about specific events in multiple countries! Toronto, Canada reports about the Mad Pride 2006 events. Mad Pride 2006 was a great success in Toronto, Canada this year as ruth ruth from Friendly Spike Theater, an MFI Sponsor Group, gives a “live report.” Mad Pride…
Info Document Actions Print this Dissident psychologist and author Bruce Levine dissects an expensive US government funded study of psychiatric drugs used on people labeled depressed. STARD*D Wars Study Failure on Antidepressants Date Published: Jun 18, 2006 01:00 AM Author: Bruce Levine Source: OpEdNews On March 23, 2006, STAR*D results were major news, front page…
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 This NY Times article questions whether psychiatric drugs must always be given to people labeled “schizophrenic,” and quotes Will Hall from the Freedom Center of Massachusetts, a sponsor group in MindFreedom International. Revisiting Schizophrenia: Are Drugs Always Needed? Date Published: Mar 21, 2006 01:00 AM Author: BENEDICT CAREY Source: NY…
Info Document Actions Print this This letter to the editor of a medical magazine by a Harvard professor of neurology warns that neuroleptic drugs are “grossly over-prescribed and overused.” “Adverse effects of anti-psychotics are ‘tip of the iceberg’” Date Published: Feb 21, 2006 01:00 AM Author: Louis R. Caplan, MD Source: Neurology: Volume 6(4) 21…