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I was a college student mental patient.

I was a college student mental patient. . by David W. Oaks, Director MindFreedom international www.MindFreedom.org. How psychiatric survivors and mental health professionals can unite for a nonviolent revolution in youth mental health care. 13 October 2007 Seminar International Center

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I was a college student mental patient.

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  1. I was a college student mental patient. by David W. Oaks, Director MindFreedom international www.MindFreedom.org

  2. How psychiatric survivors and mental health professionals can unitefor a nonviolent revolution in youth mental health care 13 October 2007 Seminar International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology

  3. World Health Organization (WHO): "Global emergency" of human rights violations in the mental health system.

  4. Psychiatric survivor perspective: Identify as having experienced a human right violation in mental health. Celia Brown (photo credit: Tom Olin)

  5. Types of Psychiatric Coercion • Force • Fraud • Fear Leah Harris (photo credit: Tom Olin)

  6. Example 1: Force with intrusive, irreversible procedure Involuntary electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) against the expressed wishes of the subject. Occurs in both developed and developing nations. Leonard Roy Frank & Kris Yates

  7. World Health Organization: Ban all "forced electroshock" absolutely and internationally. Benedetto Saraceno, MD, Director, Dept. of Mental Health and Substance Abuse World Health Organization

  8. Example 2: Force with intrusive, irreversible procedure Forced, long-term, high-dosage neuroleptic psychiatric drugs. Also known as anti-psychotics (e.g., Haloperidol, Clozaril, etc.) Larry Plumlee, MD (photo credit: Tom Olin)

  9. Forced neuroleptics at home. Involuntary Outpatient Commitment or Community Treatment Orders can mean court-ordered forced drugging in our own homes. Gabriel Hadd

  10. Screen World for Normality! Judi Chamberlin & Sally Zinman

  11. 11 October 2007 - APA

  12. Structural changes in brain. Shrinkage of higher level areas of the brain. Same area of brain targeted in lobotomy. Brain change is indisputable: Visible in brain scans (e.g., CT) Detectable in brain tissue samples. Replicated in animal studies (e.g., monkeys) Recent medical evidence about long-term high-dose neuroleptics:

  13. “Exposure to antipsychotic and brain size” After 17 to 27 months of exposure: 8 to 11% mean brain weight reduction in monkeys Source: Neuropsychopharmacology 9 March 2005

  14. Fraud about psychiatric drug hazards. Pharmaceutical industry domination is immense. Physicians are routinely misinformed. What is solution?

  15. Unite: Pull Together.

  16. Fear of no alternative. Medical monopoly means little choice. Loren Mosher, MD (photo credit: Tom Olin)

  17. This not a civil war.This is a nonviolent REVOLUTION.

  18. Globalization of psychiatric industry? • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug • Drug

  19. Dialogue with World Psychiatric Association? • Juan Mezzich (on left) President of WPA in Dresden meeting.

  20. Nonviolent revolution in mental health care? Our vision: • Right to say “no.” • Full information. • Far more non-drug voluntary alternatives. APA protest. Photo credit: Tom Olin.

  21. Voices for Choices in Mental Health by David W. Oaks, Director MindFreedom International www.MindFreedom.org

  22. MindFreedom Internationalwww.MindFreedom.orgnews@mindfreedom.org1-877-MAD-PRIDE

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