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Here are reviews and listings of books, publications on human rights and alternatives in the mental health system.

Article Book Review: Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
Ron Bassman (pictured here) is a psychologist, a survivor of extreme psychiatric human rights violations, and an author. Ron reviews the book Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry.
Image Ron Bassman, PhD
Ron Bassman is author of the new book, A Fight to Be: A Psychologist's Experience from Both Sides of the Locked Door, available in the MindFreedom madmarket at www.madmarket.org
Article Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs Guide
Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs Guide created by The Icarus Project and Freedom Center.
News Item NEWS: MindFreedom Launches All-New MadMarket
1 May 2008: An all-new MadMarket is launched! The MadMarket has hard-to-get books, DVD's and gear about changing the mental health system. Proceeds support the human rights campaigns of MindFreedom International.
File Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness In English (4th edition)
The most recent edition of a comprehensive bibliography concerning (1) personal accounts of madness written by survivors themselves; (2) narratives written by family members; (3) anthologies and critical analyses of the madness narrative genre; and (4) websites featuring oral histories and other first-person madness accounts. Prepared by Gail A. Hornstein with assistance from Cheryl McGraw, Catherine Riffin, and Moriah Silver.
News Item New Bibliography of Personal Accounts of Madness
The most recent edition of a comprehensive bibliography on personal accounts of madness is now available.
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Tom Wittick

Thomas E. Wittick is an MFI member who named one of the first psychiatric rights movement activist groups in this era in the USA. Tom chose the name "Insane Liberation Front" for the influential group that began in Portland, Oregon, USA in 1970, and he organized along side the infamous Howie T. Harp. Tom is shown here at the MindFreedom Action Space inside the Alternatives 2006 Conference in Portland, Oregon.