free Eugene event: View from India on globalization in mental health

[Lane County announcements about human rights and alternatives in mental health from www.MindFreedom.org.]

SAVE THE DATE: Free live presentation in Eugene, Oregon, USA!

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When: Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 5:30 pm

Title: Globalization of the Mental Health Industry: The View from  
India's Psychiatric Survivors.

Who:

Bhargavi Davar, PhD of Pune India.

Dr. Davar is an advisor on the new Global Disability Rights Fund. Dr.  
Davar is the Founder of Bapu Trust, a mental health organization  
named after her mother, which is based in Pune, India. She has  
published extensively on the subject of women and mental. Since 1998  
Bhargavi Davar has engaged in networks with psychiatric survivor  
perspectives in mental health, especially the care and treatment  
rights and civil liberties of persons, especially women, with a  
psychiatric disability. At present, Bhargavi Davar is Director,  
Center for Advocacy in Mental Health, which is a sponsor group in  
MindFreedom International.

Followed by community discussion moderated by David W. Oaks,  
Director, MindFreedom International.

Where: Eugene Public Library, Bascom-Tykeson Room - please arrive  
early, capacity is 100.

Why:

Over the next decade or two, MindFreedom International estimates that  
the Western mental health system may be reaching as many as 100  
million new customers in poor and developing countries.

What are the implications of massive psychiatric drugging, labeling  
and electroshock, without access to humane alternatives, full  
information or advocacy?

What would be a more empowering path for mental and emotional well  
being as the mental health industry globalizes?

Dr. Davar is on the front lines of the effort to address these  
concerns from her organizational location in Pune, India, and her new  
position in the launch of the Global Disability Rights Fund, which  
brings her to the USA.

Wheelchair accessible.

sponsored by MindFreedom International

phone: 345-9106

e-mail: lane at mindfreedom.org

Free refreshments.

More info:

MindFreedom International
454 Willamette, Suite 216 - POB 11284
Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA

http://www.mindfreedom.org
email: oaks at mindfreedom.org
office phone: (541) 345-9106 PRIVATE cell 541-554-1559
fax: (541) 345-3737
member services toll free in USA: 1-877-MAD-PRIDE or 1-877-623-7743

United Action for Human Rights in Mental Health.

join here: http://www.mindfreedom.org/join.shtml

MindFreedom International is an independent
non-profit uniting 100 sponsor groups
to win human rights & alternatives in mental health.
Accredited by the United Nations as a
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with
Consultative Roster Status.

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the
creatively maladjusted." - Martin Luther King, Jr.