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Four Harvard Alumni/ae Who Are Psychiatric Survivors

All four of these Harvard grads experienced abuse within the mental health system, and identify as psychiatric survivors advocates. Top: David Oaks '77, executive director of MindFreedom International; Jim Gottstein HLS '78, director and founder of PsychRights. Bottom: Laura Delano '06, who wrote her Harvard thesis on "Psycho-pharmaceuticals and Selfhood: Negotiating Identity as a Consumer of Mood Disorder Medications"; and Denise Maratos '97, who is founder of the Wildflowers' Movement and coordinator of MindFreedom Southern California. This photo was taken at a panel regarding psychiatric survivors at the October 2011 conference in Los Angeles of the International Society for Ethical Psychiatry and Psychology (ISEPP).

Four Harvard Alumni/ae Who Are Psychiatric Survivors
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Chuck Hughes is a psychiatric survivor activist from Santa Barbara, California.

"I find inspiration and mental support in MindFreedom," says Chuck. "I like associating with like-minded activists for human rights in mental health. When I go into a Board or Commission and say I am a member of MindFreedom International. It gives what I say a lot more validity and my voice carries a lot farther. My first of eight involuntarily institutionalizations was at age 23. I have witnessed much injustice in mental health. I have been involved with the user and survivor movement since 1992. My goal is to help stop forced outpatient psychiatric procedures, seclusion, restraints and other human rights violations, psychiatric abuse and torture. Of particular concern is the elimination of forced electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) on people of all ages."

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