Press Coverage of Icarus

Submitted by icarus on Thu, 08/17/2006 - 3:53pm

Press Coverage

New York Times newspaper

A Psychiatrist Is Slain, and a Sad Debate Deepens is a New York Times story quoting Icarus Staff collective member and Freedom Center co-founder Will Hall on the debate about forced drugging in the wake of a murder of a prominent psychiatrist by his patient. September 19, 2006.

Are Schizophrenia Drugs Always Needed? was a New York Times story tha quotes Icarus Staff collective member and Freedom Center co-founder Will Hall about the growing evidence that medications are unnecessary and make things worse for many people diagnosed 'schizophrenic.' March 21, 2006

Santa Cruz, CA Free Radio/Rocking the Boat

August 2005, "Rockin' the Boat: The Icarus Project"
Carey Lamprecht and Ashley McNamara are 2 members of a unique collective called The Icarus Project, a non-profit community based, support network, and underground media project created by and for people struggling with bipolar disorder and other dangerous gifts that are commonly labeled as mental illnesses. The Icarus Project aims to create non-authoritarian, non-hierarchical, non-professionally based peer-supportgroups for people with or without diagnoses, and help people organize outside of the psych wards for their own mental well-being"¦ read more

Oakland, CA East Bay Express

August 2005, "Off Their Meds"
Modern psychiatrists prescribe pills for hundreds of "biological" disorders. The radical mental health movement isn't so sure"¦ read more

Times Herald-Record

June 2005, "To Those Who Are Bipolar, it isn't a disease - it's a gift"
Sascha DuBrul has a question for anyone who thinks what he has is a disease: Who in their right mind, he wonders, would want to be cured of flying? "¦ read more

Richmond, VA IndyMedia

April 2005, "Radical Mental Health Icarus Project Visits Richmond"
On Saturday May 7th the Icarus project, a community based mental health project, hosted a discussion at the Paperstreet infoshop. A group of approximately 20 people met with Sascha Scatter and Timothy Kelly of the project to discuss the issues that radical political individuals deal with in establishing and maintaining a mentally healthy life"¦ read more

Asheville Global Reporter

April 2004, "Between Brilliance and Madness"
Ashley McNamara and Sascha Altman DuBrul of the Icarus Project have taken the work of the Icarus Project on the road. On Apr. 2, the Icarus Project road trip made a welcomed stop in Asheville, North Carolina. In attendance at the meeting were about fifty people from Asheville. The experiences of the individuals at the meeting were a testament to the great need for such dialogues in our communities"¦ read more