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Occupy the American Psychiatric Association in Philly: Boycott Normal!

(Published: Jan 16, 2012 09:00 AM)
Occupy the American Psychiatric Association in Philly: Boycott Normal!
In the spirit of liberty, MindFreedom is taking its nonviolent revolution to historic Philadelphia, PA, USA, and to the doorstep of the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. Occupy APA! This is part of a global peaceful campaign to boycott normality. You are welcome and invited!
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New, Extra Weird MFI Bumper Stickers are Anything but Normal!

(Published: Dec 30, 2011 05:50 PM)
New, Extra Weird MFI Bumper Stickers are Anything but Normal!
Join us in celebrating the diversity, creativity, and abnormality that makes us human! Sport your mad pride with one of MFI's special edition bumper stickers!
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MFI News

MF Free Web Radio: Paula Caplan on Why DSM is Harmful!

(Published: Feb 08, 2012 01:00 PM)
MF Free Web Radio: Paula Caplan on Why DSM is Harmful!
11 Feb 2012 Show: Dissident psychologist, author and playwright PAULA CAPLAN, PhD is guest on this month's Live Free MindFreedom Web Radio Show. She'll tell us why psychiatric labeling can be harmful, and why she is speaking at a protest of the American Psychiatric Association. With your live calls. Host: David Oaks.
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Speak Out About Dr. Oz Show Support of Electroshock

(Published: Jan 19, 2012 01:50 PM)
Speak Out About Dr. Oz Show Support of Electroshock
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.
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Global News

Irish Minister Launches Book Critical of Mental Health Industry

(Published: Jan 29, 2012 05:10 PM)
Irish Minister Launches Book Critical of Mental Health Industry
MindFreedom Ireland organized a gathering to launch a new book by dissident mental health professional, Dr. Terry Lunch, about 'Selfhood.' Irish Minister of State Kathleen Lynch TD performed the launch, praising Dr. Lynch's work for psychiatric survivors.
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John McCarthy - Irish Poet, Mad Pride Leader, Psychiatric Survivor - RIP

(Published: Jan 10, 2012 02:40 PM)
John McCarthy - Irish Poet, Mad Pride Leader, Psychiatric Survivor - RIP
Mary Maddock of the MindFreedom International board of directors just contacted us with the sad news: After a long motor neurone illness, mad pride leader, poet and psychiatric survivor John McCarthy of Cork, Ireland died this morning at 61. Whether you knew him personally or not, John is a hero for our "mad movement." Below are some Mad Pride memories of John. [Updated 14 Jan 2012]
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USA News

Christina Walko Alleges Forced Outpatient Psychiatric Drugging in Pennsylvania

(Published: Jan 23, 2012 10:15 PM)
Christina Walko Alleges Forced Outpatient Psychiatric Drugging in Pennsylvania
This MindFreedom International member, Christina Walko of Pennsylvania, is being forced to take many psychiatric drugs on an outpatient basis, even though she is living peacefully in the community. She says, "People do not heal when they are bullied or forced!" Her hearing is this Friday, 27 January 2012. Please take action.
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Why get labeled? Describe yourself in the People's DSM!

(Published: Nov 06, 2011 08:30 PM)
Why get labeled? Describe yourself in the People's DSM!
Here's a peaceful revolutionary response to psychiatry's label bible, the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual" (DSM). MindFreedom Portland has launched a "People's DSM" where you can describe yourself!
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Recently published articles of interest

Finding Purpose After Living With Delusion

(Published: Dec 01, 2011 02:10 PM)
This front page NY Times article is about Mr. Milt Greek, a man diagnosed with schizophrenia who has explored his own beliefs and similar experiences and those of others. This is the latest in a series of articles by NYT journalist Benedict Cary that have been giving voice to mental health consumers/psychiatric survivors and questioning the mainstream medical model of what is called "schizophrenia."

Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care

(Published: Dec 01, 2011 01:00 PM)
The NY Times reports on a study in journal Pediatrics about massive drugging of young people in USA foster care homes, especially with so-called "antipsychotic" drugs also known as neuroleptics.

ARE ANTI-DEPRESSANTS THE CURE .... OR THE PROBLEM?

(Published: Nov 29, 2011 04:14 PM)
This article addresses the controversial topic of drug side-effects and raises the question of whether the risks may outweigh the benefits.

Three Ways to Help Wellness Wordworks, an MFI Sponsor Group

(Published: Nov 08, 2011 01:30 PM)
A sponsor group of MindFreedom International based in Kansas, is Wellness Wordworks, a psychiatric survivor business by Corinna West, who is an electroshock survivor. Here are three ways you can help this new sponsor.

Historic Speech by Justin Dart About Mental Health & Cross-Disability

(Published: Oct 06, 2011 09:40 PM)
Justin Dart is considered the "Father of the Americans With Disabilities Act," and was also a key bridge builder in connecting the cross-disability movement, and the psychiatric survivor/mental health consumer movement. One of his last speeches was in front of the major annual meeting of the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL).

Lynne Salvi's Open Letter to Her Mental Health Therapist

(Published: Sep 24, 2011 08:20 PM)
Lynne Salvi attended a number of MindFreedom Lane County meetings in Summer of 2011. She was quite a writer. Lynne died when she drove off a bridge in Portland on 23 September 2011. A little more than a month before, on 13 August 2011, Lynne had submitted this "Open Letter" to her mental health therapist Linda, via MindFreedom, to try to explain the extreme trauma she felt in conventional mental health care. [Now updated with editing changes Lynne had submitted 8/14/11.]

Proposal: Mental Health Freedom and Recovery Act

(Published: Sep 24, 2011 07:39 PM)
Here's an article by MindFreedom member Duane Sherry who has a proposed "Mental Health Freedom and Recovery Act" that has been endorsed by MindFreedom Texas.

The Mental Illness Industry Is Medicalising Normality

(Published: Sep 07, 2011 02:04 PM)
The well-respected UK newspaper The Guardian published this piece criticizing the over-use of psychiatric labeling, and the way the process is "medicalizing" what is considered "normal."

Forum Held About Proposed Junction City State Psychiatric Institution

(Published: Sep 06, 2011 11:30 AM)
Lynne Salvi, a psychiatric survivor activist, analyzes a recent 30 August 2011 public forum about the proposed large state psychiatric institution in Junction City, Oregon. The forum was sponsored by NAMI, and their representatives passionately opposed building the new institution.

What's Wrong With Bess?

(Published: Aug 29, 2011 05:25 PM)
A poem about how various family members abuse one member in the family, and then make that person out to be the mentally ill one because of how s/he reacts to their abuse.

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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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