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Harm Reduction Coalition
The Harm Reduction Coalition fosters alternative models to conventional health and human services and drug treatment; challenges traditional client/provider relationships; and provides resources, educational materials, and support to health professionals and drug users in their communities to address drug-related harm.

http://www.harmreduction.org/


Mental Disability Rights International
Established in 1993, MDRI documents conditions, publishes reports on human rights enforcement, and promotes international oversight of the rights of people with mental disabilities.
http://www.mdri.org/


People Who
People Who is accredited to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and to the Ad Hoc Committee for the Comprehensive and Integral International Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
http://www.peoplewho.org/



Psych Rights: Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
The purpose of the Law Project for Psychiatric rights is to promote and implement a strategic legal campaign in support of psychiatric rights and against unwarranted court ordered psychiatric medication akin to what Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP mounted in the 40's and 50's on behalf of African American civil rights.
http://psychrights.org/index.htm

Mind Freedom
A source for alerts and information in the mental health human rights movement, Icarus Project is a sponsor group. http://www.mindfreedom.org/

This site also hosts Mindfreedom News Hour Internet Radio Show at
http://www.theprn.org


National Association for Rights and Protection Advocacy
NARPA is a unique mix of people who've survived psychiatric intervention, advocates, civil rights activists, mental health workers, and lawyers. http://www.narpa.org/


Alliance for Human Research Protection
The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) is a national network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical research practices, to ensure that the human rights, dignity and welfare of human subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks associated with such endeavors.
http://www.ahrp.org/


GID Reform Advocates
GID Reform Advocates are medical professionals, caregivers, scholars, researchers, students, human rights advocates, and members of the transgender, bisexual, lesbian and gay communities and their allies who advocate reform of the psychiatric classification of gender diversity as mental disorder.
http://www.transgender.org/tg/gidr/index.html


National Empowerment Center

Recovery is real and this website is filled with practical information that will help you recover if you have been labeled with a mental illness
http://www.power2u.org/


The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
Helps connect individuals to self-help and advocacy resources, and offers expertise to self-help groups and other peer-run services for mental health consumers.
http://www.mhselfhelp.org/


The Information Collective
The Information Collective is working to create a comprehensive and reliable clearinghouse of information that will supplement traditional news media and meet the information needs of the community.

http://www.infocollective.org/


From Privileges To Rights:People Labeled with Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for Themseves
NCD's overall purpose is to promote policies, programs, practices, and procedures that guarantee equal opportunity for all individuals with disabilities, regardless of the nature or severity of the disability; and to empower individuals with disabilities to achieve economic self-sufficiency, independent living, and inclusion and integration into all aspects of society.
http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/2000/privileges.htm



Awaken in the Dream
"This universe is a dream that all six billion of us are collaboratively dreaming up into materialization together. When we realize this, we can put our lucidity together in a way where we can co-creatively dream up a much more grace-filled universe into incarnation. "

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/html/


Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America By Robert Whitaker
http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/anatomy_of_epidemic_whitaker_psych_drugs.pdf


The Case Against Anti-psychotic drugs: A 50 year record of doing more harm than good By Robert Whitaker
http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/whitakercaseagainstneuroleptics.pdf


Paxil Progress
Forum for Paxil users, including ways to withdrawal slowly.
http://www.paxilprogress.org/


Antidepressant Side Effects - Zoloft
Understanding the effects of antidepressants and the side-effects.
http://www.zoloft-side-effects-lawyer.com/


http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/motherjonesantidepressants.pdf
LINK DOESN'T SHOW UP

Is it prozac? Or placebo?
Mother Jones. San Francisco: Nov/Dec 2003

"New research suggests that the miracles promised by antidepressants may be largely due to the placebo effect. Too bad there's no money to be made in sugar pills".
http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/motherjonesdisordersmadetoorder.pdf


Let Them Eat Prozac
This website explores threats to public safety and academic freedom surrounding the SSRI group of drugs - Prozac, Zoloft (Lustral), Paxil (Seroxat/Aropax).
http://www.healyprozac.com/



Benzopine Addiction Support
Dependence on Antidepressants & Halting SSRIs
PROTOCOL FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF SSRI ANTIDEPRESSANTS
by Dr David Healy MD,
http://www.benzo.org.uk/healy.htm



Schizophrenia Treatment Without Antipsychotic Drugs:
Loren R. Mosher, M.D., former Chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia, National Institutes of Mental Health: Two Alternative Viewpoints: Psychotropic Drugs and Crises
http://www.moshersoteria.com/response.htm



Mother Jones - Medicating Aliah
"When state mental health officials fall under the influence of Big Pharma, the burden falls on captive patients. Like this 13-year-old girl".

http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/mother_jones_medicating_aliah.html

MacArthur Research Network on Mental Health and the Law - The MacArthur Community Violence Study

http://www.macarthur.virginia.edu/violence.html


The Big Idea: Forced medication is inhumane. Should the mentally be allowed to refuse to take their medication?
By Robert Whitaker ( The Boston Globe)
http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/whitaker_force.pdf


CineMania
Whenever an article about mental health is reported in the news, the media usually finds an angle linking the story to violence, which justifies denying all people labeled "mentally-ill" their most basic constitutional rights.
http://www.cinemaniastigma.com


Public Broadcast Service: Religion & Ethics
Treating the Mentally Ill May 4, 2001 Episode no. 436
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week436/cover.html


Hearing Voices Network
If you hear voices HVN can help we are committed to helping people who hear voices. Our reputation is growing as the limitations of a solely medical approach to voices become better known. Psychiatry refers to hearing voices as 'auditory hallucinations' but our research shows that there are many explanations for hearing voices. Many people begin to hear voices as a result of extreme stress or trauma. We offer information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them.
http://www.hearing-voices.org/


Schizophrenia Treatment Without Antipsychotic Drugs
http://www.moshersoteria.com/


Still Crazy After All These Years
San Diego Weekly Reader, Vol. 32, No. 2, Jan. 9, 2003
Jeanette De Wyze, reporter
Sometime in the next few months, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases will publish an article that describes an unusual experiment with newly diagnosed schizophrenics. This experiment randomly assigned young people with that diagnosis to one of two different forms of treatment. Some entered a psychiatric hospital where they received drugs to quell their psychotic ravings. The others went to a place known as Soteria House. They lived there for several months with a small group of other schizophrenics and a team of empathetic men and women (not medical doctors) who gave the disturbed individuals round-the-clock emotional support. The study tracked the research subjects for two years. According to the new report, the schizophrenics who lived in the therapeutic home and received no drugs fared better than the ones who received medication in the hospital. Furthermore, "The ones who did the best are those who would have been predicted to have the worst outcomes," Loren Mosher says.
http://www.moshersoteria.com/crazy.htm


Rethink Severe Mental Illness
Future Perfect: Mental health services users setout a vision for the 21st century
http://psychminded.co.uk/news/news2005/dec05/future-perfect.pdf


NHT's Alternative Mental Health Resources Page
Norsehorse's Home Turf Alternative Mental Health Resources Page: This is a resource (or links) page concerning information about alternatives to the traditional, medical model-based, mental health system.
http://nht_amhl1.blogspot.com/


Staff Survivor's Network
The Staff Survivor's Network is an organization founded by and for individuals who identify both as staff within the mental health system and as individuals who have been labeled with a mental illness by the mental health system. http://www.staffsurvivorsnetwork.com/


The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses

http://www.isps.org/


New Scientist
A modern look at advances in the science world.
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns24101


http://www.mentalhealth.org/publications/allpubs/KEN-01-0108/


JUNGIAN PSYCHIATRIST DR. JOHN WEIR PERRY
MENTAL BREAKDOWN AS HEALING PROCESS
http://www.global-vision.org/interview/perry.html


http://www.asylumonline.net/
Asylum - AN INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE FOR DEMOCRATIC PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER OF PSYCHOLOGY POLITICS RESISTANCE (PPR)


Prozac Spotlight - AdBusters Magazine

We want a healthy mental environment, not a toxic culture; we want access to the relevant information that drug takers need to know; and we want to foster mad pride, not the maltreatment of those considered mad.
This is a dialogue not a diatribe, so check out the forum and join us in conversation.
http://prozacspotlight.org/



Psychminded - for all who work in psychology, psychiatry and mental health.
United Kingdom based, mental health jobs, awareness.
http://psychminded.co.uk/



Electroconvulsive Therapy, ECT information, lawsuits, legislation, therapy, and news.

http://www.ect.org/



Showing Our Scars: Self-injury Support

Showing Our Scars is a site dedicated to supporting individuals and families dealing with self-injury.
DOES NOT SEEM TO BE WORKING PASSED THE FRONT PAGE
http://grunge.freeshell.org/sos/index.html



Secret Shame (self-injury information and support)
Self-injury: You are NOT the only one
http://www.palace.net/~llama/psych/injury.html



http://www.caffeineweb.com/
The Caffeine Web
At CaffeineWeb.com, psychiatrists, allergists and toxicologists address caffeine's potential to induce symptoms of mental illness in healthy people.




http://www.adhdfraud.org/index.htm
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Exposing the fraud of ADD and ADHD
Articles, essays, and other information pertaining to the fraud of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)--Compiled by Dr. Fred Baughman


Psychosurgery.org
Remembering the Tragedy of Lobotomy
This memorial is dedicated to the victims of lobotomy. The inventor of the operation, Egas Moniz, was even awarded a Nobel Prize for it.
http://www.psychosurgery.org/



Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
The Case of Trauma and Recovery

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Herman/herman-con0.html



Critical resistance
Join the struggle to End the Prison Industrial Complex
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.http://www.criticalresistance.org/index.php



The Centre for Restorative Justice

Restorative Justice is an old idea with a new name. Its roots can be found in Aboriginal healing traditions and the non-retaliatory responses to violence endorsed by many faith communities.
http://www.sfu.ca/crj/resources.html


Street Spirit Interview with Robert Witaker (6/03)
http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/whitakerstreetspirit.pdf

Kangaroo Court
An innocent person is a terrible thing to lock up, drug, and electroshock.
http://www.kangaroocourt-blog.com/


The Formal Consensus Website
On Conflict and Consensus: A Handbook of Formal Consensus Decision-making
http://www.consensus.net/


Online Index of DSM IV diagnoses
http://allpsych.com/disorders/disorders_alpha.html


Prinzhorn Collection of Patient Art
http://prinzhorn.uni-hd.de/index_eng.shtml

http://www.healingselfinjury.org/


National Council on Disabilities Report: Privileges to Rights: People Labeled with Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for Themselves
http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/2000/privileges.htm

Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
http://www.madinamerica.com/


-- "Recent advances in understanding mental illness and psychotic experiences: A report by The British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology
http://www.freedom-center.org/pdf/britishpsychologicalsocietyrecentadvances.pdfcafety.org

http://spiritualemergency.blogspot.com/