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.

Tom Greening Poems on "Psychology and Other Pathologies" by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-05-11 11:11

Tom Greening has been writing serious and comical poetry for over 50 years and has had poems published in such diverse places as The American Scholar and Ski Magazine. A set of his poems about his trips to Russia has been translated into Russian. Tom says, "Writing poems about psychology, some of them satirical, has helped me maintain a vestige of sanity in the face of what psychology has become."

Resistance by Liz Purcell — last modified 2008-05-07 11:04

Poem by Liz Purcell

Mad Poet by David W. Oaks — last modified 2006-12-14 15:35

One of the folks who was involved in the planning meetings for the coalition that became MindFreedom International told us about this web site by a Mad Poet. Thanks!

Tom Greening is both a psychology professor and a poet by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-05-11 11:08

Tom is a leading dissident psychologist who is challenging the human rights violations inherent in the current mental health system. Plus, Tom is a poet and humorist who helps maintain his own well being through his poetry on psychologist, which is on the MindFreedom web site.