Alternative Mental Health Radio by MindFreedom International: Mary Ellen Copeland and Magdaline Volaitis

Info This was a fantastic FIRST SHOW OF 2013! MARY ELLEN COPELAND, MAGDALINE VOLAITIS, and guest host SOPHIE FAUGHT discussed how we we can replace harsh and invasive psychiatric interventions with personal empowerment, self-help, and recovery for people in mental/emotional distress! Listen to the archive at: www.blogtalkradio.com/davidwoaks Mary Ellen Copeland, guest on MindFreedom’s ALTERNATIVE MENTAL…

Mary Maddock “Zaps Back” with MFI Initiative on Electroshock and Human Rights

Info Mary Maddock is helping to lead an international campaign to challenge the many human rights violations inherently linked to the practice of electroshock, also known as electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. Mary is a shock survivor, author and board member of MindFreedom International. Participants in the Alternatives 2012 conference protest across the street, reaching rush…

Mad Pride Event: Patch Adams to Get IAACM Award at 2012 OCF

Info Mad Pride! At the 2012 Oregon Country Fair – the enormous, creative and historic festival in the woods – the clown / physician / psychiatric survivor Patch Adams will receive the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment Award, in Community Village, via MindFreedom International. Don’t miss it! Patch Adams and Gesundheidt Institute…

MindFreedom March of 200 Protests Directly in Front of American Psychiatric Association

Info MFI and allied organizations united for a successful peaceful protest of the 2012 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, questioning the dysfunctional over-labeling, over-drugging and forced psychiatric treatment still all too common in psychiatric practice today. [Updated 5 Oct. 2012] Aki Imai from Ohio is a graduate student ally, who marched in the…