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daily12006-09-10T19:23:56ZMindFreedom Ireland founder Mary Maddock was featured in a major newspaper story in Ireland. http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/inter/mfire/ireland-electroshock-mary-maddock Mary Maddock is a former nun, an electroshock survivor, founder of MindFreedom Ireland based in Cork, Ireland, and author of the book Soul Survivor. One of the main newspapers in Ireland ran a major feature about Mary. Mary is on the board of directors of MindFreedom International.No publisherdavidinternational2008-04-29T16:59:03ZNews ItemUK Guardian: Studies say antidepressants no better than placebo http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-drugs/antidepressants/guardian-placebo UK's Guardian newspaper covers the news that a major study says SSRI antidepressant psychiatric drugs are no better than placebo. No publisherdavidinternational2008-02-28T18:53:57ZNews ItemPsychiatric Survivor Musician Works on Album http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-arts/mad-music/vara-adams Vara Adams is a psychiatric survivor musician who is working on an album of songs that challenge the current mental health system. She has three of the six songs recorded so far. We've been enjoying these first three at the MindFreedom office! Go Vara!No publisherdavidinternational2007-12-16T18:20:21ZNews ItemMad and Non-Mad Radio: Some Different -- Very Different -- Radio Shows http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/media-issues/madness-radio Here are several Mad radio shows and one Non-Mad radio show you may listen to about changing the mental health system, all hosted by MindFreedom members who are psychiatric survivors! All may be heard on the web.No publisherdavidinternational2007-11-06T16:32:44ZNews ItemReview: "Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry" reviewed by Mary Maddock http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-alternatives/mary-maddock-review Mary Maddock of Cork, Ireland reviews the new book "Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry" co-edited by Peter Lehmann and Peter Stastny. Mary is co-founder of MindFreedom Ireland. No publisherdavidinternational2007-10-18T16:21:01ZNews ItemAlert: Psychiatric Survivors & Allies May Comment in Medical Magazine http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/media-issues/maths-jesperson-pehm Maths Jesperson is a long-time psychiatric survivor activist, leader and actor in Sweden, who is calling upon psychiatric survivors and allies all over the world to submit comments to an online medical magazine. This magazine covers all kinds of medical topics, but the editor, who is a psychiatrist, has reached out to psychiatric survivors and allies to ask for their commentary, and articles.No publisherdavidinternational2007-09-26T14:27:29ZNews ItemDeclaration from protest of Eastern European Psychiatric Congress http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/act/eastern-europe/greek-protest-declaration A nonviolent protest using banners and guerilla theater was held in and outside of the "First Eastern European Psychiatric Congress" in Thessaloniki, Greece on 21 September 2007. The protest was by the Pan-Hellenic Coalition for Psychiatric Reform. There is a link to a brief video of the action that you may watch. No publisherdavidinternational2007-09-24T02:37:45ZNews ItemBonkersfest 2008 Announcement http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mp-2008/copy_of_bonkersfest-2008 Bonkersfest is a wonderful annual Mad Pride event in UK that brings thousands of people together for creativity, music, costumes, strangeness and even a bit of education about human rights of people in the mental health system! Bonkersfest announces a call for proposals for 2008 events, along with some other wonderfully Mad Pride activity in UK.No publisherdavidinternational2007-09-17T14:11:52ZNews ItemWorld Hearing Voices Day is 14th September 2007 http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-alternatives/hearing-voices/14-sept This is a news release from INTERVOICE about a day for celebrating humane alternatives for people who hear distressing voices. No publisherdavidinternational2007-09-14T18:20:24ZNews ItemMDRI Wins International Human Rights Award http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/inter/mdri/thomas-j-dodd-2007 The 2007 Thomas J. Dodd Prize hfor International Justice and Human Rights has been given to Mental Disability Rights International, a sponsor group of MindFreedom International. Here is MDRI's news release.No publisherdavidinternational2007-09-12T17:45:51ZNews ItemTerence McLaughlin, editor of Asylum magazine, dies http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/in-memoriam/terence-mclaughlin Ian Parker forwarded the sad news that long-time movement activist Terence McLaughlin has died. Terence edited Asylum magazine and supported MindFreedom's work. No publisherdavidinternational2007-09-13T03:21:03ZNews ItemMindFreedom Responds to a Call for "More Money" for Mental Health in Poor & Developing Countries http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/psychiatry-globalization/lancet-who Media are widely covering a news story about global mental health. Lancet, the widely-respected medical publication, published a study calling for more money for mental health services in poor developing countries. World Health Organization promptly put out an endorsement of this call for more money. But MindFreedom asks, "more money for what"?No publisherdavidinternational2007-09-04T21:10:39ZNews ItemA People's Centre for Treatment, Health and Therapy: Founding Meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment http://www.mindfreedom.org/as/act/inter/mfsouthafrica/centre-for-treatment-health-therapy MindFreedom South Africa launched a new project in the summer of 2007, at the founding meeting of the Maitland Ubuntu Centre for Treatment: Alternatives in Mental Health and Psychrights Advocacy. The Ubuntu Centre was conceived as a means for helping to heal the racially-charged divisions of South Africa's apartheid past, marked by suffering of the vast majority of people given racial or blood-based labels, many of whom are now consigned to suffering the further indignity of being branded by biopsychiatry,No publisherombudsmaninternational2007-09-29T12:12:38ZNews ItemBelgium Psychiatric Survivor Group Celebrates 10th Anniversary http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/belgium-anniversary The following news announcement was forwarded by European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) about one of their member groups in Belgium, UilenSpiegel, which is celebrating their 10th anniversary. UilenSpiegel is also planning a Mad Pride celebration. Dan Taylor, secretary from MindFreedom Ghana in Accra, Ghana, Africa, intends to attend. No publisherdavidinternational2008-01-07T19:03:51ZNews ItemPsychologists protest vote by American Psychological Association http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/torture/psychologists-protest-interrogation This is an MFI Info Center on the American Psychological Association vote against a ban of psychologists from helping interrogators at Guantanamo Bay and other U.S. military detention centers. Instead, the Association voted for a milder resolution that banned about a dozen interrogation techniques. Dissident psychologists protested the vote.No publisherdavidinternational2007-08-21T01:50:25ZNews Item