Info Two dynamic “STOP PSYCHIATRIC PROFILING” activists (Tina Minkowitz and Eva Dech) discuss their CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT to the human rights abuses of discriminatory public policy initiatives like the NY SAFE Act. LIVE on Saturday, 9 March 2013, at 2 pm ET, 11 am PT; we’ll be taking your calls at (646) 595-2125. Join us for…
Info On February 17th (Giordano Bruno Day), David thanks his supporters and urges them to celebrate their CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT! Learn more about the upcoming Creative Maladjustment Week (July 7-July 14, 2013) at the NEW website: www.cmweek.org. You’ll see creative ideas for events you can host anywhere in the world to honor the creatively maladjusted,…
Info Writer, lifelong rock climber, and psychiatric survivor MATT SAMET joins guest host SOPHIE FAUGHT to discuss his incredible journey out of “benzo madness” and the important lessons he learned along the way. An amazing I GOT BETTER story! LIVE on Saturday, 9 February 2013, at 2 pm ET, 11 am PT; we’ll be taking…
Info A message from the Staff and Board of MindFreedom International On 1 December 2012, MFI Executive Director David Oaks sustained a serious injury from a fall which resulted in him breaking his neck. While trying to get news out to members and support David and his family, we invited people to support not only MFI but…
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…
Info A letter from David, who says: “The silver lining in this event has been witnessing the love between us all.” David accepts an award from the Eugene Human Rights Commission in 2003. Photo by John Jordan-Cascade Dear Friends, family, colleagues, and supporters, After 4 decades as a psychiatric survivor human rights activist and 3…
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…
Info Mad Pride events are a way for you to celebrate what Martin Luther King repeatedly called the salvation of the world: Your creative maladjustment! More than five nations have Mad Pride events. Send us yours! [updated 17 July 2012] The Mad Pride brain balloon is floating again in 2012! (Click the image to get…
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…
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…