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MindFreedom International News - 5 September 2007
http://www.mindfreedom.org

*Next* on MindFreedom Fee Live Call-In Internet Radio:

Stories of Madness with Professor Gail Hornstein!

This Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 4 pm ET just click on:

http://prncomm.net

Click and listen to a live free web interview with Professor Gail

Hornstein who has collected hundreds of personal accounts of people who

have experienced being labeled "mad" by the mental health system.

You may phone in with your questions & comments live.

Prof. Hornstein is now one of the world's experts on "First Person

Accounts of Madness," and maintains a list of more than 600 titles of

such stories.

Trained as a social psychologist and the author of a book and dozens of

articles, Prof. Hornstein teaches at Mt. Holyoke college in

Massachusetts.

Prof. Hornstein has a deep commitment as an academic psychologist,

who is not a therapist and has no role in the mental health system, to

advancing the ideas of the psychiatric survivor movement.

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

news."

Phone numbers to call in live are announced during the show. If you can't

get through keep trying. The show may start a minute or two late.

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, 5 September 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/

For more information about Prof. Hornstein click here:

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

Prof. Hornstein offered this personal description:

"I teach a course every fall to psychology students at my college,

called 'First-Person Narratives of Madness," which uses survivors'

autobiographical accounts -- no texts by professionals -- to

challenge students thinking about 'mental illness' and 'treatment."'

"The bibliography I circulate currently (in its 3rd edition) has 600

titles -- and these are only those first-person accounts that have been

published and are in English -- ranging from the 15th century to last

year. The bibliography circulates all over the world and is updated every

few years.

"I have also spent a great deal of time over the past five years in the

UK, immersing myself in the survivor movement there, particularly the

extraordinarily successful work of the Hearing Voices Network (HVN}.

"In fall 2005, I was a participant in HVN's first formal training

course for hearing voices group facilitators, and I have been

privileged to be invited to HVN groups all over Britain. I am always

eager for US audiences to learn more about some of the exciting

developments happening there."

ALSO on this show, latest news about Mad Pride and launch of

International Association for Advancement of Creative Maladjustment, see:

http://mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm

Don't forget!

THIS Wednesday, 5 September 2007, at 4 pm ET click on:

http://prncomm.net

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ALSO NEW in the MindFreedom Web Knowledge Base:

** "Psychiatric Survivor In a Police Training Conference!"

An anonymous psychiatric survivor member of MindFreedom attends a

major national conference about training the police for dealing with

mental health problems. This analysis warns of an emerging "paramiliatry"

relationship between the mental health system and police. The conclusion:

Be afraid, very afraid. More info:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/police-mental-health

** NY Office of Mental Health Last Minute Dirty Tricks

As announced here previously, Simone D. won her court appearance to stop

a two year court order the State of New York Office of Mental Health

(OMH) had to give her forced electroshock. It turns out in the weeks

before the court hearing, OMH gave her at the last minute nine forced

electroshocks. MFI David Oaks comments on the MFI blog here:

http://mindfreedom.org/mfi-blog

** There are now four (4) known MADNESS shows in North America!

That's right, counting the MindFreedom News Hour there are now four (4)

regular radio shows on the topic of madness and changing the mental

health system. All can be heard on the web, and all are run by

psychiatric survivor members of MindFreedom. For more info:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/media-issues/madness-radio

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