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Altered States of the Arts, co-founded by Howie the Harp, Gayle Bluebird and others, celebrates the creativity of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors.

Web site for Altered States of the Arts by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-06-06 19:14
Altered States of the Arts is one of the early groups to join MindFreedom as a sponsor. This is a nationwide network in the USA of creative people who are current or former recipients of psychiatric services. Many call themselves “MAD Artists” or “Crazy Folk Artists”, to re-claim power over historically negative stereotypes and for use of their expanded meanings (e.g. excitement, outrageous, foolish, “infatuated with”). Some prefer to call themselves “Healing Artists” with an emphasis on art that promoted healing and wellness. [Note: The Altered States of the Arts 2008 Festival has been cancelled.]

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Lauren Tenney, psychiatric survivor activist from New York State

First involuntarily institutionalized, at 15, Lauren Tenney is a survivor of psychiatry. She has been involved with the user and survivor movement since 1992. Her goal is to help stop forced psychiatric procedures, detainment, and confinement, human rights violations, psychiatric abuse and torture. Of particular concern are the elimination of forced electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) on people of all ages, but particularly children and senior citizens, forced drugging, restraints, seclusion, behavioral interventions, and coercion of any kind. Lauren, a Mad-Activist/ Artist/ Author/ Academic/ Adjunct Professor is coordinating The Opal Project, an outcome of participatory action research she coordinated for field research in the PhD program in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation topic is: "The Institutionalized "Community." She became involved with WE THE PEOPLE when the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights and MindFreedom International needed someone on the ground in Brooklyn, New York to coordinate a response where Esmin Green was murdered-by-neglect. She now lives in Albany, NY with her service dog-in-training and cat. For more info: www.TheOpalProject.org and www.etrash.tv
 
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