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Role of art, music, dance, writing, theater in challenging psychiatric human rights violation and in assisting in the emergence of emotional and mental well being and recovery.

Folder Mad Poetry
Poetry cannot be silenced by psychiatric oppression. Here are some examples. Also, MindFreedom Journal has usually had a column of excerpts of Mad Poetry, edited by Bonnie Schell; see info about the journal elsewhere on this web site. You may submit poetry to that column at poetry(at)mindfreedom(dot)org. Please note that by submitting your poem you agree to MindFreedom publishing the whole poem, or excerpts of it. The MindFreedom poetry column is meant to give glimpses of the wonderful poetry out there, and so portions of poems are often used to illustrate this.
Folder Humor
Nothing like humor to help challenge mental health oppression.
Folder Mad Theater
Use of theater in ways that may help human rights and alternatives in mental health system.
Folder Mad Music
A few songs and musicians celebrating free minds, and challenging psychiatric human rights violations.
Folder Essay
 
Folder audio activism
Use of radio and other audible media to promote human rights and alternatives in the mental health system.
Folder The Art of Felice Debra Eliscu
This folder showcases some of the artwork of Felice Debra Eliscu.
Folder Mad arts news, announcements
A few links, news items, announcements related to the 'mad arts.'
News Item New Featured Products in the Mad Market
New products in MindFreedom's online "Mad Market" store: DVD & CD. Plus there are books, brochures, and more. All proceeds benefit MindFreedom's human rights work!
Folder New Mad Pride Jewelry Benefits MFI
This folder has information about MindFreedom's new 'mad pride jewelry.' You'll find news release, photos, and more. Sale of these products benefits human rights campaigns by MindFreedom International.
Folder Celebrities who speak out about human rights in mental health
While many 'cultural leaders' in the film, TV, music and theater world have spoken out about having had mental and emotional problems, it seems most stories end simply with finding conventional mental health care they felt worked. These stories are often moving, and represent a segment of the public. But what about those who experienced some kind of trauma or human rights violations caused by their mental health care? What about celebrities who found recovery through less conventional alternatives than psychiatric prescriptions or electroshock? Why do we not hear more of their perspectives?
Folder Films and movies of interest to 'mad movement'
Activists in the mental health consumer and psychiatric survivor movement have found that showing movies that help inform the public about our issues can help. This folder is not meant to be comprehensive at all, but it's a start about using various films to campaign for human rights and alternatives in mental health. There's something fun about a film. (Listing film is not necessarily endorsement of all of it, the producers are responsible for content.)
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Samantha Johnson, psychiatric survivor, MFI intern

Samantha Johnson is a 22-year-old psychiatric survivor who is interning at the MindFreedom International office. "I was absolutely in disbelief at how the people were treated at the hospital. It was an environment of emotional abuse interspersed with 'treatments' and 'policies' that could be more accurately described as assault. The tragic thing is that there really are some good people working there, but they are unable to provide people with the help they need inside a system that prioritizes profits over people. It might take five years of counseling for someone to truly recover from a mental health crisis, but it takes five minutes to tranquilize them. This is why I started working with MindFreedom. For 25 years MFI has been challenging the mental health system to see us as human beings- to treat us as human beings- through peaceful activism. At MFI we emphasize individual choice, empowerment, and compassion as necessary aspects of a true healing process."

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