"To Be a Mental Patient ..."
(by Rae Unzicker, 1984)
National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA)
A poem concerning hearing voices
written by Morgan W. Brown
on April 22, 2003
A Holistic View of Mental Health
By Andrea Hercha Schmook
1995
A Personal History of the Consumer Movement
Address given in November 2002
at the Triad Consumer Action Board Conference
in Lakeland, Florida.
by Sally Clay
A Working Definition of Empowerment
by Judi Chamberlin
National Empowerment Center (NEC) Newsletter
Spiritual Forces and How They Affect Recovery
By Andrea Hercha-Schmook
2000
A National Survey of Professionals and Managers with Psychiatric Conditions:
A Portrait of Achievements and Challenges
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Boston University
Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care
an online informational page of
SAMHSA's National Mental Health
Informational Center
Psychiatric Survivor Oral Histories:
Implications for Contemporary Mental Health Policy
Prepared by:
Oryx Cohen, MPA
21 December 2001
If you and others whom you know are interested in doing something within your own region concerning homelessness and affordable housing, join together with others in your local area:
Cooperative Living
Zuzu's Place
Cooperative Living for Psychiatric Survivors
The PsychoMatrix Spirituality Inventory!"
Spiritual Psychology Test
Is Your Spirituality HAPPY?
Take this spiritual psychology test
and find out where your happiness
may be inhibited by your spirituality.
Book Review
Psychiatry’s gentleman abolitionist
by Robert A. Baker, Ph.D.
of
Liberation by Oppression:
A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
Authored by Thomas S. Szasz
Published Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ
2002
ADA Document Portal: The ADA Collection
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Advance Psychiatric Directives
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Advocacy Unlimited, Inc.
Connecticut
Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web
American Iatrogenic Association (AiA)
"The American Iatrogenic Association is devoted to the study
and reporting of illness caused by physicians
and other members of the medical profession."
American Naturopathic Medical Association
A New Vision of Public Mental Health:
A Model Law
to Provide a Right to
Mental Health Services and Supports
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Befrienders International Online
California Association of Mental Health Patients' Rights Advocates
(CAMHPRA)
Citizenship rights & psychiatric disability
by Judi Chamberlin
National Empowerment Center (NEC) Newsletter
Collaborative Assessment
Collaborative assessment is a problem-solving process,
originally developed by Bruce Chalmer, Ph.D.,
that can be used as an alternative
to psychological evaluation.
Committee for Truth in Psychiatry
(CTIP)
Companion Animals:
Right to emotional support animals in "No Pet" Housing
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Companion Animals Related
Renting with Pets
The Humane Society of the United States
Companion Animals Related
Service dogs help people get back out into the community
by Patricia Deegan, Ph.D.
National Empowerment Center (NEC) Newsletter
Community Integration/Olmstead Compliance
National Association of Protection & Advocacy Inc.
(NAPAS)
"The Nation's Disability Rights Network"
Consumer Advocacy Edition of Pulse
Selected studies, reports, articles, news stories
and Internet resources on stigma, consumer involvement
and consumer advocacy efforts
Consumer Organization & Networking Technical Assistance Center
(CONTAC)
Crisis Hostel:
Alternative to psychiatric hospitalization
National Empowerment Center (NEC)
Newsletter
Critical Psychiatry
by Duncan Double
Reprinted from CPD Bulletin Psychiatry (2000) 2 33-36
Curing the Therapeutic State
Thomas Szasz on the medicalization of American life
Interviewed by Jacob Sullum
Reason Magazine
July 2000
Doing Without Drugs
A Guide for Non-Users and Users
Document hosted on
PeopleWho.Net
Freedom Center
Northampton, MA
"In May of 2001 people labeled with severe 'mental illness' --
such as schizophrenia, bipolar (manic depression), and
obsessive-compulsive disorder -- came together in the
Pioneer Valley to form the Freedom Center.
Freedom Center challenges the mental health system's
despair, abuse, fraudulent science and toxic treatments
with compassion, advocacy, and activism."
From Privileges to Rights:
People Labeled with Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for Themselves
National Council on Disability (NCD) Report
January 20, 2000
Going Off Psychiatric Medications
Transcribed Notes
from a
Circa 1990 White Light Communications produced
Psychiatric Survivors video episode
Notes taken by Carol Patterson, August 2000
* Highly Recommended! *
H13
Visions, Madness, Dreams ...
A Personal Blog
Excerpted from "About me":
"What is madness like?
I ask you, what is sanity like?
I wish I remembered."
Handling your Psychiatric Disability in Work and School
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Boston University
Hearing Voices Network
Assisting people who hear voices
United Kingdom
Hearing voices that are distressing:
Self-help resources and strategies
(Part One)
by Patricia Deegan, Ph.D.
National Empowerment Center (NEC)
Newsletter
Hearing voices that are distressing:
Self-help resources and strategies
(Part Two)
by Patricia Deegan, Ph.D.
National Empowerment Center (NEC)
Newsletter
Holistic and Mental Health Alternatives:
Morita and Naikan
ToDo Institute
"educational programs and services related to
Constructive Living, Morita therapy, Naikan,
Meaningful Life therapy, and other related areas"
Middlebury, Vermont
Howie T. Harp Peer Advocacy Center
New York City, N.Y.
if you are thinking about suicide ... read this first
It's time for a new paradigm
by Sylvia Caras, PhD
Journal of Psychospiritual Transformation
An Interdisciplinary journal exploring consciousness,
reality and the nature of psychospiritual transformation
Kansas Mental Health Alternatives Clearinghouse
Kitchen Doctor
"This site is for those who are interested in
preventative health measures. A wide range of topics
are posted that enable people to detoxify and/or
regenerate different systems of the body ... with the hope
that such measures will enhance the quality of life.
Requests for postings on specific conditions are welcome."
Law Project For Psychiatric Rights
LifeStreams
A Self Exploration Guide
for Personal and Spiritual Development
and Transformation
Light Therapy and Hormone Levels
a post found blogged at
Psychscape:
A Blog concerning "Random thoughts, ideas and comments
about issues related to Psychiatry, Mental Health and Neuroscience"
by the Psychiatry Editor of Medscape
MadNation
People Working Together for Social Justice
and Human Rights in Mental Health
Mass Freedom Center Discussion List
Support, Advocacy, and Activism for Psychiatric Abuse Survivors
(Freedom Center)
Northampton, Massachusetts
Media Tips
Coalition on Human Needs
mentalhealthconsumers.org
An umbrella site for several
Cincinnati-based mental health organizations.
Mental Health Consumer/Survivor/Ex-patient
Run Organizations Network
(CSX Run Network)
Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Network of Minnesota
Mutual Aid with Psychiatric Survivors
(MAPS)
Myths
by Morgan W. Brown
National Association for Rights Protection & Advocacy
(NARPA)
NARPA Community Discussion Group
National Empowerment Center
(NEC)
National Empowerment Center West
(NEC-West)
NEC-West is the west coast affiliate of the National Empowerment Center
National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
National Stigma Clearinghouse
Anti-Stigma Home Page
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
If you are in suicidal crisis
and are in need of immediate help,
please dial: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
New York City Voices
A Consumer Journal for Mental Health Advocacy
NO Force UK Campaign
Human Rights not Oppression
Nothing Like Dreaming
Film currently in post-production
Off The Grid Productions
Highly Recommended!
One Consumer's Perspective on Trauma and Mental Illness
by Sara Clarke
Open Letter to the Commissioner of the Vermont DDMHS
by Morgan W. Brown
concerning preliminary recommendations
re: the Vermont State Hospital (VSH);
suicides, prevention and next steps.
Oregon Office of Consumer Technical Assistance
(OCTA) of Oregon
Pam Wagner's Web log: WagBlog
"Pamela Wagner is an accomplished writer and an award-winning poet who also happens to have schizophrenia."
More about Pam Wagner
PEER Center
Oakland Park, Florida
Peer Networking Group
Peer Advocacy Contact Service (PACS)
Central New York (State) Region
Peer Resource Center, Inc.
Serving Mental Health Consumers/Survivors/Ex-patients
and Peer-run Organizations Throughout New York State
with Training, Educational Materials & Information
People Who
People who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions
Personal Care Attendant (PCA)
services available to people with psychiatric disabilities
by Patricia Deegan, Ph.D.
National Empowerment Center (NEC) Newsletter
Professional Practices that Promote Recovery
Internet Survey
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Boston University
Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness
(PATH)
Psychiatric Drug Facts
Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
(PSAT)
Psychiatric Survivors of Ottawa
(PSO)
Psychiatrogenics
Thomas S. Szasz
American Iatrogenic Association Library
Information that improves understanding of medical
error, philosphy, and practice
PsychoSpiritual Research Institute (PSRI)
Transpersonal Psychology
Pulse
"a free service of the
Centre for Community Change International,
gathering new and noteworthy Internet
resources for mental health providers,
family members of individuals with mental illness,
consumers of mental health services
and consumer advocates."
Real shame
by Sylvia Caras, Ph D
Safe Harbor Project:
Alternative Mental Health Online
Safe Havens Discussion List
(HUD) housing/services for persons
who are homeless and mentally ill
(Safe Haven)
Self-determination and independence versus force and dependency
by Morgan W. Brown
National Empowerment Center (NEC) Newsletter
Soteria
Schizophrenia Treatment Without Antipsychotic Drugs
Loren R. Mosher, M.D.
Spirituality and Psychology:
A Lunar Perspective
Stepping Stones to Recovery:
My Mental Health Story
Martha Roberts
Support Coalition International (SCI):
MindFreedom
Tender Loving Calling
"to offer encouragement and refreshment, help and healing,
spiritual direction, yoga, massage and more
to those who seek peace and happiness."
Shantivanam, the Peace Forest in Northern Vermont
Northern Knights Camp and Conference Center
"a nonprofit retreat dedicated to the healing and creative arts"
located on 160 acres in Glover
The Antipsychiatry Reading Room
The Limits of Psychiatry
by Duncan Double
British Medical Journal
April 13, 2002
The Trouble with PACT:
Questioning the increasing use of assertive community treatment
teams in community mental health
Patricia Spindel and Jo Anne Nugent
Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology
The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses
Thomas S. Szasz
Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
("The Szasz Site")
Transpersonal Gateway
A Plain English discussion of
the Psychology, Psychotherapy and Spirituality
the Spectrum of Human Consciousness
some call Transpersonal
Trauma Report:
The prevalence of abuse histories in the mental health system
National Association of Consumer/Survivor
Mental Health Administrators
(NAC/SMHA)
Vermont Center for Collaborative Assessment (VCCA)
The VCCA was founded in 1997 to promote
the development of collaborative practices
in therapy, assessment, and mediation.
Located in Montpelier, Vermont, the center sponsors
training, workshops and supervision in
Collaborative Problem Resolution, Collaborative Assessment,
narrative therapy and other collaborative practices,
as well as providing referrals to
licensed professionals who provide these services.
Vermont Psychiatric Survivors
(VPS)
Vermont Recovery Website
by Steven Morgan
Voice Hearers Mailing List
This group is for people who hear, or who have heard voices.
We can share support, strategies for living with voices, and other ideas.
Voice Supporters Mailing List
This group is for people who hear voices, and those who support them
either as carers, friends, family members or professionals.
Discussions can take place around subjects such as how to cope with voices,
or how best to support those who hear voices - what is helpful,
what is not helpful etc. This group is open to anyone interested
in the subject of hearing voices.
Web logs: 'Blogging' into the future
Current Psychiatry [Magazine] Online
Vol. 2, No. 1 / January 2003
Psyber Psychiatry [column]
by John Luo, MD
Assistant clinical professor and
director of psychiatric informatics
Department of psychiatry
University of California, Davis
Wire on the Web:
Creativity, autonomy and mental health
"WIRE is a paper based community mental health newsletter
produced in Kirklees, West Yorkshire by a group of volunteers.
This web site is designed to be an addition to the newsletter.
It allows people to create a site together and
can be seen as a discussion engine."
Hey folks, this site is actually a blog devoted
to mental health, blogged by
"people who provide and use mental health services"!
