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David W. Oaks to speak at World Psychiatric Association
| What | Convention |
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| When |
2008-09-22 from 18:45 to 19:45 |
| Where | Prague, Czech Republic |
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Every three years the World Psychiatric Association holds a World Congress. At this year's event, David W. Oaks, Director of MindFreedom International, has been invited to give a "Special Lecture."
David W. Oaks, Director of MindFreedom International will present a Special Lecture entitled "AN URGENT NEED FOR DIALOGUE ABOUT A "GLOBAL EMERGENCY" OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE" at the WPA World Congress.
In 2007, David along with several representatives of other mental health consumer/psychiatric survivors, attended a WPA international conference on coercion in psychiatry, and engaged in several hours of negotiation with the current president of the World Psychiatric Association, psychiatrist Juan Mezzich.
You may read about the results here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/global/world-psychiatric-association
One outcome was an invitation to speak at the World Psychiatric Association World Congress. You may read an abstract about David's Special Lecture here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/global/david-oaks-wpa
MindFreedom will also share a booth at the exbhit hall for the WPA World Congress, in an effort coordinated by author/publisher Peter Lehmann, and in cooperation with the European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry.
