This excellent essay by psychiatric survivor member of MindFreedom International was first published in the Canadian publication Open Minds Quarterly. The author Aubrey Ellen Shomo is shown at left in below photo helping to staff the MindFreedom ‘free space’ at Alternatives 2007. Aubrey encourages you to re-distribute this far and wide saying, “spread it to the wind.”
For ease of re-distribution this is an MS Word version you may download of the excellent essay by a psychiatric survivor member of MindFreedom International. The essay was first published in the Canadian publication Open Minds Quarterly. Aubrey encourages you to re-distribute this far and wide saying, “spread it to the wind.”
MindFreedom Members, Marcela Musgrove, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, and colleague Madalyn Marcus, are working on a special issue of The Journal of Participatory Medicine on Mental Health. They are seeking diverse perspectives from participatory research, opinion pieces, book reviews, writings by survivors/consumers, etc.
The Manifesto of a Noncompliant Mental Patient 
Aubrey Ellen Shomo (on left) & Friends 
MS Word Version for Download: “The Manifesto of a Noncompliant Mental Patient” 
Journal Seeks Papers from Mental Health Consumers & Psychiatric Survivors 