MFNews: Mother Jones on Psychiatric Torture of Youth; Sue Clark on MFI Radio; More

Sun Aug 26 22:17:38 CDT 2007

MindFreedom International News - 27 August 2007
United Action for Freedom of Your Mind
http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward

    Read more about these four (4) *brief* news items:

Mother Jones magazine investigates use of pain to change the behavior  
of youth...

Electroshock survivor Sue Clark is next guest on MindFreedom free  
Internet radio this Wednesday...

Larisa Arap is freed from Russian psychiatric ward after protests...

Screen the world for "normality"!

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    (1) Mother Jones Exposes "School of Shock"

MindFreedom salutes Mother Jones magazine for publishing a very  
important investigation of abuse of youth in today's mental health  
system. Journalist Jennifer Gonnerman examines the infamous Rotenberg  
Center that uses electrical pain to limbs and abdomen to try to  
change the behavior of troubled youth and adults.

To read a MindFreedom "thank you" to Mother Jones see:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/mother-jones-school-of- 
shock

if that link doesn't work use:

http://tinyurl.com/2hc3tn

The "School of Shock" article itself is on the Mother Jones web site  
and it has links to many side bars, photo galleries, and resources.  
You can also easily post your comment at the end of each piece. Click  
here:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/school_of_shock.html

if that link doesn't work use:

http://tinyurl.com/23trwp

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    (2) Sue Clark -- electroshock survivor & activist -- is the next  
guest on MindFreedom Free Live Internet Radio

This Wednesday, 29 August 2007, at 4 pm ET, "click and listen" to a  
live interview with electroshock-survivor SUE CLARK from Ontario,  
Canada. Phone in with your questions & comments live.

During the 18-year period from 1972 to 1990, Sue was diagnosed with  
15 different psychiatric labels, prescribed 14 different types of  
psychiatric drugs, and was locked up in a variety of psychiatric  
institutions in Ontario, Canada.

Sue says, "I was tortured with electroshock in 1973 at the age of l7  
years old which was given to me against my will." Sue says she  
suffers from permanent memory loss and has a difficult time learning  
new things to this day. Electroshock is sometimes called  
electroconvulsive therapy and involves administering so much  
electricity to the brain that a convulsion is induced.

For more info on Sue her web site: http://wittenbergces.blogspot.com

The MindFreedom News host David Oaks, who also sums up the latest  
"mad news," was also abused in the mental health system as a teenager.

Phone numbers to call in live are announced during the show. Or 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 at mindfreedom.org

If you miss the live show this Wednesday, 29 August 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/

The following week's guest, Wednesday, 5 September 2007, will be  
Professor Gail A. Hornstein. Prof. Hornstein has collected hundreds  
of personal accounts by people who have experienced the mental health  
system, going back centuries! To read about Prof. Hornstein's work on  
"First Person Accounts of Madness" click here:

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

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      (3) After international protests Larisa Arap is freed from  
Russian psychiatric institution

Russian journalist Larisa Arap has been freed from a Russian  
psychiatric institution where she has been held for 46 days. Arap,  
who had investigated psychiatric institutions, was freed following  
the visit of a government commission, which may have been prompted by  
widespread public protests. MindFreedom was one of many groups to  
issue a human rights alert. More info:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/russia

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    (4) Screen for "normality"!

Peaceful protesters plan to turn the tables on Mental Health  
Screening. They will "screen for normality" on 10 and 11 October 2007.

The special theme is youth. Creativity, theater, costumes and skits  
are especially invited. Take photos or video, upload them. Mad Pride  
events are already planned in Belgium, Washington, D.C., St. Louis  
and Australia.

A good time to decide to join in the fun is this Saturday, 1  
September 2007. That day marks the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther  
King's speech in front of the American Psychological Association  
passionately calling once more for the creation of the "International  
Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment."

How will you celebrate your own "creative maladjustment"? Read MLK's  
quotes here:

http://mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/iaacm/MLK-on-IAACM

Or if that web address does not work go to:

http://tinyurl.com/yob7wb

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