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…
Info New release about protest co-sponsored by MindFreedom International of American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. MindFreedom International News Release Updates: For more info about protest click here. Download flyer here. For photos & bio’s of some of the protest speakers, click here. More about participating, wherever you live. Press Release – For immediate release Protesters, Rejecting…
Info Psychiatric survivor Chris Busche got a special Valentine’s Day gift today. He’s free of a psychiatric institution in New Jersey where he’s been locked up for about 19 months. Chris Busche attributes part of this victory in getting free to the MindFreedom Shield Campaign, which has put out a number of alerts on his…
Info Influential physician and TV personality Dr. Oz may be showing a segment praising electroshock. You are encouraged to speak out on his own web site. Elizabeth Ellis: Victim of forced court-ordered outpatient electroshock in Minnesota. MindFreedom Zapback Alert – please forward MFI Initiative on Electroshock & Human Rights 19 January 2012 …
Info “I want my husband to be home for the holidays…”For many, this season will be remembered as a time of hopelessness and fear. Now is the ideal time to make a statement against forced and coerced psychiatry by supporting MindFreedom International efforts to support psychiatric survivors and their loved ones through a donation or…
Info In the spirit of liberty, MindFreedom took its nonviolent revolution to historic Philadelphia, PA, USA, and to the doorstep of the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. Solidarity events were held internationally. Read more, and how you can help “occupy APA” in future events. You are invited to peacefully protest the American Psychiatric Association. Occupy…
Info Unite in an international campaign to question how psychiatric corporations violate our human rights by trying to control us and our democracy through enforcement of “normal,” with harmful labeling, forced drugging and electroshock. Launch of Boycott Normal Campaign in Eugene, Oregon 10 October 2011. You can help from ANYWHERE…. • Check out the…
Info Unite in an international campaign to question how psychiatric corporations violate our human rights by trying to control us and our democracy through enforcement of “normal,” with harmful labeling, forced drugging and electroshock. Launch of Boycott Normal Campaign in Eugene, Oregon 10 October 2011. You can help from ANYWHERE…. • Check out the…
Info Unite in an international campaign to question how psychiatric corporations violate our human rights by trying to control us and our democracy through enforcement of “normal,” with harmful labeling, forced drugging and electroshock. Launch of Boycott Normal Campaign in Eugene, Oregon 10 October 2011. You can help from ANYWHERE…. • Check out the…
Info — expired MindFreedom International (MFI) asked for stories and art from psychiatric survivors, mental health consumers/users, and their family and loved ones. Nearly 100 were submitted by the extended deadline of 831/. Thank you. Here’s more info. Cultural dancing at one of MindFreedom Ghana’s public outreach activities. Picture shared by MindFreedom Ghana. Update 1…