News: 4 women change the mental health system - MF Radio December

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MindFreedom News - December 2006
Nonviolent Revolution in Mental Health
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    Four Powerful Women Who Are Challenging Psychiatry Are Guests on
    MindFreedom Internet Radio for December 2006.

MindFreedom Radio in December features four women who are effectively  
organizing to replace psychiatric human rights violations with more  
humane ways of helping people in the mental health system:

    Felicia McCarty, Mary Maddock of Ireland, Paula Caplan and Janet  
Foner.

To listen free, just live click on http://www.theprn.org every  
Wednesday in December 2006 at 4 pm EST, 1 pm PST. Or listen or  
download MP3's later from the archives, which now work.

During the show you are invited to phone in live toll free with your  
questions or comments, or e-mail them at any time to radio(at) 
mindfreedom(dot)org.

Each MF Radio Show begins and ends with the latest news and resources  
about changing the mental health system, and is hosted by David Oaks,  
psychiatric survivor, human rights activist for 30 years, and  
director of MindFreedom International. MF Radio and archives are  
always free.

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December Schedule & Brief Bio's for MF Radio

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6 December 2006 -- Felicia McCarty, mother, activist and psychiatric  
survivor.

Felicia is a psychiatric survivor whose son Steven also ended up in  
the psychiatric system for 30 long years. Hear about her decades of  
fierce activism for her son and others, and about his recent tragic  
suspicious and unnecessary death inside a California psychiatric  
institution. Felicia is a long-time organizer with MindFreedom  
Southern California.

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13 December 2006 -- Mary Maddock, psychiatric survivor, author and  
activist in Cork, Ireland.

Mary is active in the non violent revolution of the mental health  
system in Ireland and all over the world. She co-founded MindFreedom  
Ireland with her suportive husband Jim. They have just now published  
their book, "Soul Survivor: A Personal Encounter with Psychiatry."

Mary says, "I have been a psychiatric survivor of six glorious years,  
having been a psychiatric slave for twenty years, because I was  
chemically lobotomized by three powerful psychiatric drugs. Education  
was one of the important reasons why I discovered my liberation. On  
reading 'Toxic Psychiatry' by Peter Breggin and finding MindFreedom  
International, with their encouragement, support and enlightenment, I  
rediscovered myself in my late fifties. Every morning now I am happy  
to be alive in body, mind and spirit again."

By coincidence, Felicia and Mary both like to call themselves  
tigresses who are challenging the psychiatric system.

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20 December 2006 -- Paula J. Caplan, MA, PhD, psychologist and  
author, is one of the main critics of the way psychiatry labels  
people with their unscientific "Diagnostic and Statistical  
Manual" (DSM).

Paula is a clinical and research psychologist, playwright, director,  
and actor. She is a Lecturer at Harvard, teaching Psychology of Sex  
and Gender, and a Fellow at Harvard’s DuBois Institute. She is the  
author of 10 books including, "Don’t Blame Mother: Mending the Mother- 
Daughter Relationship" and "They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s  
Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal." She is also an  
editor and one of the writers of "Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis."

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27 December 2006 -- Janet Foner is a psychiatric survivor with a  
Master's degree in Community Psychology who is a champion of humane  
alternatives to the mental health system.

 From 1990 to 2000, Janet co-founded and co-directed MindFreedom. She  
also since 1978 helped found the movement of psychiatric survivors  
within the International Re-evaluation Counseling Communities and has  
since 1992 been the International Liberation Reference Person for  
Mental Health Liberation in that organization. In that capacity she  
leads workshops across the USA and in many countries on mental health  
liberation, and is currently working to start a drug-free counseling  
center where people can get off psychiatric drugs. Janet says, "I am  
committed to seeing that mental health oppression is ended."

Janet is chair of the MindFreedom Choice in Mental Health Care  
Campaign, which is planning a conference called "Creative Revolution  
in Healing: Turning Our Minds Around" in July 2007 in Connecticut.  
For info see http://www.MindFreedom.org or e-mail creativerevolution 
(at)mindfreedom(dot)org.

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For more info on MindFreedom see the newly redesigned web site at  
http://www.MindFreedom.org

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Do you want to...

* Win human rights campaigns in mental health?

* End abuse by the psychiatric drug industry?

* Support self-determination of psychiatric survivors?

* Promote safe, humane, effective options in mental health?

You are not alone! MindFreedom is a nonprofit human rights group that  
unites 100 sponsor and affiliate groups with individual members, and  
is accredited by the United Nations as a Non-Governmental  
Organization (NGO) with Consultative Roster Status.

MindFreedom is one of the very few totally independent groups in the  
mental health field with no funding from governments, drug companies,  
religions, corporations, or the mental health system. While most of  
MindFreedom's members are psychiatric survivors, *all* who support  
human rights are invited to join and become active leaders.

http://www.mindfreedom.org

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

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

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