Personal tools
You are here: Home → Affiliates & Sponsors → MFI Affiliate and Sponsor Activities → International → MindFreedom South Africa
Navigation
 

News from MindFreedom South Africa

Document Actions
Here's some of the news, from latest to oldest, from MindFreedom South Africa.

mf-south-africa-news-items

News Release: Cape Town Declaration Signed at Robben Island Gateway

(Published: 2008-04-05 19:26)
MindFreedom South Africa issued this news release in March 2008.

The Sun City Hypothesis - An Alternative Hypothesis to Mental Illness?

(Published: 2007-09-23 17:55)
Before the 10th International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology held in August, 2007, at Sun City, South Africa --ten years after the South African “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” found startling evidence of human rights abuses in the medical and psychiatric fields under apartheid-- MindFreedom South Africa announced that it seeking submissions of models of human behavior and alternative hypotheses of mental health, in the hope of putting an end to coercive psychiatry.

Screw the labels, let’s have MindFreedom

(Published: 2007-09-17 03:19)
This following essay, by one of the organizers of MindFreedom South Africa, was written in the wake of the Mad Pride 2007 vigil in Cape Town South Africa. David Robert Lewis calls for a broader social movement that includes cognitive rights, as well as bodily and psychological integrity, so that South Africans can feel safe and secure about their freedom.

Cape Town Declaration to be approved

(Published: 2007-09-10 19:33)
South African members of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP), in collaboration with MindFreedom South Africa, have announced the release of the Cape Town Declaration. The declaration is expected to be formalized (and assented to) during Mad October -- a Mad Pride Event -- by local affiliates of international organizations working for psychiatric rights.

A People's Centre for Treatment, Health and Therapy: Founding Meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment

(Published: 2007-08-25 10:35)
MindFreedom South Africa launched a new project in the summer of 2007, at the founding meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment: Alternatives in Mental Health and Psychrights Advocacy. The Ubuntu Centre was conceived as a means for helping to heal the racially-charged divisions of South Africa's apartheid past, marked by suffering of the vast majority of people given racial or blood-based labels, many of whom are now consigned to suffering the further indignity of being branded by biopsychiatry,
by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-04-29 12:16

We are MFI



Al Siebert

Al is a psychiatric survivor, psychologist, author and expert on the resilience of the human spirit. Here he addresses the City of Eugene conference on Choice in Mental Health as a Human Right at the University of Oregon on 20 October 2006.
 
Powered by Plone, the Open Source Content Management System site by netCorps

This site conforms to the following standards: