MindFreedom International News - 1 October 2007
http://www.mindfreedom.org

Six (6) *brief* news items:

1 - October is "Screen the World for Normality Month"! Mad Pride! Got

Normal?

2 - Latest news & Dorothy Dundas on live free MindFreedom MAD Web

Radio this Wed., 3 October 2007, 4 pm ET. You can call in live!

3 - Now Online: Photos & Videos of World Psychiatric Association

Encounter in Dresden with Movement.

4 - Lloyd Ross Links Zyprexa and TeenScreen Scandals.

5 - On 60 Minutes Katie Couric Investigates Death of Rebecca Riley: You

Can Comment.

6 - Maths Jesperson calls for speaking out inside online medical

magazine.

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(1) October is "Screen the World for Normality Month"!

Some claim October is "Mental Health Month." MindFreedom renamed

October "Screen the World for Normality Month"! Celebrate Mad Pride.

Got normal? Here's how you can participate! Get your rubber chicken

ready! Events in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, Australia,

Belgium... or anywhere you are.

Help launch Martin Luther King's vision of an "International

Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment." More info:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/screen-normality

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/3dudcq

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(2) Next on MindFreedom MAD FREE LIVE Web Radio with Host David Oaks:

Breaking News:

- Screen the World for Normality!

- Youth Voices for Chocies in Mental Health!

Plus, live interview with Dorothy Dundas, survivor of insulin coma

shock who became psychiatric survivor activist.

This Wednesday, 3 October 2007, at 4 pm ET, click, listen and call in to

a free LIVE MindFreedom Web Radio:

http://prncomm.net/

You can phone in from anywhere in the world live with your comments and

questions live. Call toll free from USA. E-mail in questions to comments

to radio@mindfreedom.org.

More info on the MindFreedom Mad Radio Show:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/radio

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(3) Photos & Videos of World Psychiatric Association Negotiations

Online

DRESDEN, GERMANY: When the World Psychiatric Association held a

special international meeting on the subject of coercion in

psychiatry, MindFreedom united with several other organizations of

mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors to negotiate

inclusion inside the conference.

Peter Lehmann and Reinhard Wojke organized photographs and video

tapes of this encounter, which are now online. Go to:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/global/world-psychiatric-association

or go to: http://tinyurl.com/2rfc9x

Or go directly to:

http://www.enusp.org/dresden.htm

On the MindFreedom Blog, director David Oaks comments on the pro's

and con's of negotiating with opponent organizations:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-blog

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(4) Linking Zyprexa and TeenScreen Controversies

In a news analysis for MFI, Lloyd Ross, a psychologist and human

rights activist, ties together the scandals of the way the

psychiatric drug Zyprexa was marketed, with the targeting of

America's youth through unscientific mental health screening programs

such as TeenScreen. Lloyd encourages you to take action today to support

the youth of the USA.

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/usa/zyprexa-teenscreen

or go here: http://tinyurl.com/23jtqz

Lloyd is on the board of International Center for Study of Psychiatry and

Psychology. Do not miss their conference next week in Arlington,

Virginia! It's all about preventing abuse of youth with psychiatric

drugs. MindFreedom's Mad Market will be there.

Go to http://www.icspp.org

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(5) Katie Couric Investigates Death of Rebecca Riley: You Can

Comment on CBS Web site.

On the CBS television show "60 Minutes" on 30 September 2007, Katie

Couric looked into the death of four-year-old Rebecca Riley who was given

multiple psychiatric drugs after being diagnosed "bipolar." The parents

were charged with murder.

An online debate began on the CBS web site about this story. You may

easily comment on the CBS web site, and also read information about the

story itself. For more info click here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/rebecca-riley-60-minutes

or go here: http://tinyurl.com/3a6p9c

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(6) Alert: Psychiatric Survivors & Allies May Comment in Medical

Magazine

Maths Jesperson is a long-time psychiatric survivor activist, leader and

actor in Sweden, who is calling upon psychiatric survivors and allies all

over the world to submit comments to an online medical magazine.

This online magazine covers all kinds of medical topics, but the

editor, who is a psychiatrist, has reached out to psychiatric

survivors and allies to ask for their commentary, and articles.

For more info:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/media-issues/maths-jesperson-pehm

or go here: http://tinyurl.com/2vr6q5

David Oaks, MindFreedom director, had his comment about studies

showing major brain shrinkage caused by psychiatric

"antipsychotic" (neuroleptic) drugs here:

http://www.peh-med.com/content/2/1/16/comments#284637

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More news at the MindFreedom News Web Site:

http://www.mindfreedom.org

Don't see a news item? Submit it to news@mindfreedom.org

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MINDFREEDOM FALL MEMBERSHIP & RENEWAL DRIVE!

Join or renew your membership today as part of the Fall Membership &

Renewal Drive!

Go to:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate

Become a member or renew your membership now! Build united strength in

numbers!

* 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?

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affiliate groups with individual members.

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.

All human rights supporters are invited!

Join or donate here:

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Beyond Psychiatry) go to:

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