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Jun 11, 2010

We Are Our Own Media! Making News to Change Mental Health in Spring 2010

by David W. Oaks — last modified Jun 11, 2010 03:11 PM

Tomorrow is another MindFreedom Web Radio Show, this time with authors Robert Whitaker and Linda Andre, who are reaching thousands of people about changing mental health care. It's a good time to reflect on "being our own media." This Spring 2010, we've had terrible media and good media, ranging from a professional reporter who called a psychiatric survivor a "crackpot," in print... to a student journalist struggling with the controversy of psychiatric labeling... read more...

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Paula Joan Caplan, PhD

Paula Caplan, PhD: Psychologist, author, playwright and activist who is challenging the harm caused by psychiatric labeling. Paula is a long-time member of MindFreedom International. Author of 12 nonfiction books. Her latest book, "When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans," uncovers the way too many people traumatized by war are told that that makes them “mentally ill.” Her book won the 2011 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in the Psychology category.

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