NEWS: MFI radio: Matt Morrissey on choice in mental health, live free on Internet

[mindfreedom-news at intenex.net]

MindFreedom News -- 31 July 2006
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Public Service Announcement:

    MFI Weekly News Hour Live Free Internet Radio:

    Listen to two activists diagnosed "psychotic"
    discuss alternatives in the mental health
    system... LIVE on free Internet radio!

    You may e-mail in questions & comments live.

TOMORROW, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 at 1 pm eastern time, 10 am pacific  
time, you may hear Matt Morrissey as a guest on MindFreedom Weekly  
News Hour Internet radio show hosted by David Oaks, as part of the  
Progressive Radio Network.

The guest and host will will dialogue about how choice is getting  
squeezed out of the current mental health industry, and how there  
ought to be a full range of humane, safe, effective, non-drug  
alternatives.

Just click on http://www.theprn.org on Tuesdays, 1 pm eastern, 10 am  
pacific. The MFI weekly show is live and free. Good news: The  
producers announced that the sound level of guests on newer shows is  
now fixed!

Matt will talk about creating working alternatives for people like  
Matt and David who were diagnosed with what are considered "serious"  
psychiatric disabilities such as a label of schizohprenia. Matt is a  
psychiatric survivor and is now director of the adult day program at  
Full Spectrum Progressive Mental Health, which is a major nonprofit  
center in San Francisco that offers all-day voluntary programs for  
adults and adolescents in severe emotional distress.

Matthew Morrissey, MFTI, received his Master’s degree in Counseling  
Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2002.  
Matt interned for two years at Burch House, a therapeutic community  
modeled after the Philadelphia Association’s households in London.  
While at Burch House he learned how to maintain a humanistic milieu  
for people in extreme distress. Matthew also has a decade of  
experience as an activist in the psychiatric survivor movement.

Matt's primary clinical interest is the facilitation of recovery from  
severe emotional distress, such as
states of mind labeled as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,  
depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Other interests  
include philosophy and its relation to psychology and psychoanalysis.  
He is a member of the International Center for the Study of  
Psychiatry and Psychology, The International Society for the  
Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses,  
The Society for Laingian Studies, and MindFreedom International. Full  
Spectrum is a Sponsor Group in MFI.

YOU may e-mail your questions and comments before, during or after  
the show at radio at mindfreedom.org. Your comments and questions may be  
read live during the show.

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Be part of a nonviolent revolution in mental health! Listen to the  
MindFreedom News Hour every week, usually live, at Tuesday, 1 pm  
eastern time, 10 am pacific time. Just click on http://www.theprn.org

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Archives of the MindFreedom News Hour are now available.

If you miss a live show you may listen to the archive at http:// 
www.theprn.org. Just click on "shows" and go to MindFreedom News  
Hour. Older Macs made have trouble hearing the archive, sorry...  
we're a Mac office and we sympathize, we're working on fixing that.

Here are past shows now on the archive by DATE (the new web site does  
not have name labels yet):

07/25/06 Guest = Hugh Massengill -- Surviving trauma and psychiatric  
abuse.

07/18/06 Guest = Al Galves, PhD -- How dissident mental health  
professionals can be good allies.

07/11/06 Guest = Celia Brown -- Celia's story of surviving  
psychiatry, promoting alternatives, and speaking out inside the  
United Nations for three years as President of MindFreedom  
International.

06/27/06 Guest = Krista Erickson -- Mad Pride! How you can organize a  
Mad Pride event and join in with anchor events in four nations: Ghana  
Africa, UK, Canada and USA.

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involving MFI in Utne, Philadelphia Inquirer, Psychiatric Services,  
Wall St. Journal and more here:

http://www.intenex.net/pipermail/mindfreedom-news/

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Do you want to...

* Win human rights campaigns in mental health?

* End abuse by the psychiatric drug industry?

* Support the self-determination of psychiatric survivors?

* Promote safe, humane and 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  
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MindFreedom is one of the very few totally independent groups in the  
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MindFreedom's members are psychiatric survivors, *all* who support  
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