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Fast for Freedom in Mental Health Information

Here is basic information about the historic 2003 hunger strike sponsored by MindFreedom International to demand evidence from the American Psychiatric Association and other mental health organizations of any "biological basis" of any major psychiatric disorder.

Krista Erickson This is your portal to information about the 2003 Fast for Freedom in Mental Health.

Announcement and news release about event.

Some of the media coverage (LA Times, Washington Post).

Dialogue between American Psychiatric Association and Scientific Advisory Board for MindFreedom International.

Robert Whitaker's book Anatomy of an Epidemic recommends the Fast for Freedom as a model about challenging the way the medical model unscientifically dominates the psychiatric industry.

Hunger strike participant David Oaks includes the hunger strike in his chapter in a book on psychiatric coercion published by World Psychiatric Association leaders, and you can download the chapter free here.

(Photo: Krista Erickson, hunger striker, being interviewed by media.)

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Peter Lehmann, editor, author, psychiatric survivor activist

Peter Lehmann of Berlin, Germany serves as one of the MindFreedom International representatives with the United Nations, and is a long-term supporter of MindFreedom campaigns and activities. Peter is a psychiatric survivor who has worked passionately for decades in Germany, Europe and internationally with a variety of groups for significant change in the mental health system. Peter is editor and publisher of a variety of books challenging human rights violations in the mental health system and promoting alternatives. His most recent book (co-edited with Peter Stastny, MD) is called "Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry." This book provides chapters from 61 leaders in changing the mental health system, and is available in the MindFreedom Mad Market.

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