Tues 10/25: MF Radio Talks Back to Psychiatry w. Linda Morrison: Psychiatric Survivors Movement

Sun Oct 22 13:12:08 CDT 2006

MindFreedom News Hour -- 25 October 2006
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Live Free Weekly Internet Radio for the Creatively Maladjusted.

    Talk Back to Psychiatry: Lessons from the
    Social Change Movement Led by Ex-Mental Patients,
    Psychiatric Survivors and Mental Health Consumers.

    Author and associate professor Linda Morrison, PhD
    is next guest on MindFreedom News Hour Free Internet Radio.

When: *This* Wednesday, 25 October 2006, at 4 pm EST, 1 pm PST.

How: Click on http://www.theprn.org to listen live OR hear archive  
later.

Who: Linda Morrison, PhD: Author of "Talking Back to Psychiatry: The  
Consumer/Survivor/Ex-patient Movement."

Hear about the activism led by former "mental patients."

Who are mental health consumers? Psychiatric survivors? What is Mad  
Pride?

Where did this social change movement come from? What have they won?  
What are their goals?

Linda Morrison is a sociology scholar and Assistant Professor of  
Sociology at Oakland University in Michigan. She has studied how the  
groups and leaders in the international "mental patients’ rights  
movement" seek empowerment, self-determination and human rights in  
mental health care. Find out what works, and what doesn't.

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Guest Linda Morrison, PhD brief bio:

Linda Morrison is an assistant professor of sociology at Oakland  
University in Michigan.  She has been an active participant and ally  
of the consumer/survivor movement for 10 years.  She has experienced  
psychiatry from many sides: as a patient, research subject, social  
worker, family member, bioethics intern, consumer advocate, and  
activist.  Her dissertation research on the consumer/survivor/ex- 
patient movement was published in 2005 by Routledge Press; the book  
is entitled Talking Back to Psychiatry: The Consumer/Survivor/Ex- 
patient Movement.

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More info: You may now download a talk presented by Linda Morrison on  
23 September 2006 at New York University on this topic at:

http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/ 
NYUOpenMinds06TalkLMorrisonResearchSurvivorConsumerMovt.pdf

Or use: http://tinyurl.com/tcab2

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10/25/06 Guest = Gabe Hadd: My Underground Railroad -- How I Escaped  
Over State Lines to Evade My Forced Outpatient Psychiatric Drugging

10/11/06 Guest = Bruce Levine: A dissident psychologist rebels  
against the domination of psychiatric drugs, mental health  
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10/3/06 Guest = Aby Adams: Mental health screening in your school:  
What are the dangers and alternatives?

9/26/06 Gust = Linda Valentine: How Family Members Can Support Human  
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9/19/06 Guest = Ted Chabasinski: From Forced Electroshock as a Child  
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9/12/06 Guest = Lauren Tenney -- Saving Children Today From  
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9/5/06 Guest = Will Hall -- How People Labeled 'Schizophrenic' Can  
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8/22/06 Guest = Sally Zinman -- Lessons for Today From 30 Years of  
Activism in the Mental Patients Rights Movement.

8/15/06 Guest = Judi Chamberlin -- Why We Demand Human Rights, Not  
'Mental Patient' Rights

08/8/06 Guest = Leonard Roy Frank -- Surviving & resisting electroshock.

08/1/06 Guest = Matt Morrissey -- Alternatives for extreme emotional  
distress.

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  
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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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