MindFreedom International News - 27 August 2007

United Action for Freedom of Your Mind

http://www.mindfreedom.org

 

Read more about these four (4) *brief* news items:

Mother Jones magazine investigates use of pain to change the behavior of

youth...

Electroshock survivor Sue Clark is next guest on MindFreedom free

Internet radio this Wednesday...

Larisa Arap is freed from Russian psychiatric ward after protests...

Screen the world for "normality"!

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(1) Mother Jones Exposes "School of Shock"

MindFreedom salutes Mother Jones magazine for publishing a very

important investigation of abuse of youth in today's mental health

system. Journalist Jennifer Gonnerman examines the infamous Rotenberg

Center that uses electrical pain to limbs and abdomen to try to change

the behavior of troubled youth and adults.

To read a MindFreedom "thank you" to Mother Jones see:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/mother-jones-school-of-shock

if that link doesn't work use:

http://tinyurl.com/2hc3tn

The "School of Shock" article itself is on the Mother Jones web site and

it has links to many side bars, photo galleries, and resources. You can

also easily post your comment at the end of each piece. Click here:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/school_of_shock.html

if that link doesn't work use:

http://tinyurl.com/23trwp

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(2) Sue Clark -- electroshock survivor & activist -- is the next

guest on MindFreedom Free Live Internet Radio

This Wednesday, 29 August 2007, at 4 pm ET, "click and listen" to a live

interview with electroshock-survivor SUE CLARK from Ontario, Canada.

Phone in with your questions & comments live.

During the 18-year period from 1972 to 1990, Sue was diagnosed with 15

different psychiatric labels, prescribed 14 different types of

psychiatric drugs, and was locked up in a variety of psychiatric

institutions in Ontario, Canada.

Sue says, "I was tortured with electroshock in 1973 at the age of l7

years old which was given to me against my will." Sue says she suffers

from permanent memory loss and has a difficult time learning new things

to this day. Electroshock is sometimes called electroconvulsive therapy

and involves administering so much electricity to the brain that a

convulsion is induced.

For more info on Sue her web site: http://wittenbergces.blogspot.com

The MindFreedom News host David Oaks, who also sums up the latest

"mad news," was also abused in the mental health system as a teenager.

Phone numbers to call in live are announced during the show. Or you may

e-mail in with any questions, comments or technical problems at any time.

Your comments may be read live during the show. E-mail to:

radio@mindfreedom.org

If you miss the live show this Wednesday, 29 August 2007, at 4 pm ET at

http://prncomm.net/,  recent shows from the MindFreedom News Hour are

archived by Progressive Radio Network here:

http://oaks.progressiveradionetwork.org/

The following week's guest, Wednesday, 5 September 2007, will be

Professor Gail A. Hornstein. Prof. Hornstein has collected hundreds of

personal accounts by people who have experienced the mental health

system, going back centuries! To read about Prof. Hornstein's work on

"First Person Accounts of Madness" click here:

http://home.mtholyoke.edu/acad/misc/profile/ghornste.shtml

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(3) After international protests Larisa Arap is freed from

Russian psychiatric institution

Russian journalist Larisa Arap has been freed from a Russian

psychiatric institution where she has been held for 46 days. Arap,

who had investigated psychiatric institutions, was freed following

the visit of a government commission, which may have been prompted by

widespread public protests. MindFreedom was one of many groups to issue a

human rights alert. More info:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/russia

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(4) Screen for "normality"!

Peaceful protesters plan to turn the tables on Mental Health

Screening. They will "screen for normality" on 10 and 11 October 2007.

The special theme is youth. Creativity, theater, costumes and skits are

especially invited. Take photos or video, upload them. Mad Pride events

are already planned in Belgium, Washington, D.C., St. Louis and

Australia.

A good time to decide to join in the fun is this Saturday, 1

September 2007. That day marks the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther

King's speech in front of the American Psychological Association

passionately calling once more for the creation of the "International

Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment."

How will you celebrate your own "creative maladjustment"? Read MLK's

quotes here:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/iaacm/MLK-on-IAACM

Or if that web address does not work go to:

http://tinyurl.com/yob7wb

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