Candlelight Vigil

April 16th, 7pm-8:30pm

In Memory of Gabriel Myers and the Right to Informed Consent

We need 200 champions, minimally.

Chris McGreal in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 28 March 2010 19.47 BST

Canadian police investigate dozens of allegations against psychiatrist nicknamed for use of electricity to ‘cure’ gay soldiers.

A leading Canadian psychiatrist who kept accusations of gross human rights abuses in apartheid-era South Africa hidden has been charged in Calgary with sexually abusing a male patient and is being investigated over dozens of other allegations.

Dr Aubrey Levin, who in South Africa was known as Dr Shock for his use of electricity to “cure” gay military conscripts, was arrested after a patient secretly filmed the psychiatrist allegedly making sexual advances. Levin, who worked at the University of Calgary’s medical school, has been suspended from practising and is free on bail of C$50,000 (£32,000) on charges of repeatedly indecently assaulting a 36-year-old man.

The police say they are investigating similar claims by nearly 30 other patients. The Alberta justice department is reviewing scores of criminal convictions in which Levin was a prosecution witness.

Levin has worked in Canada for 15 years since leaving South Africa, where he was chief psychiatrist in the apartheid-era military and became notorious for using electric shocks to “cure” gay white conscripts. He also held conscientious objectors against their will at a military hospital because they were “disturbed” and subjected them to powerful drug regimens.
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On September 14th 2008 roughly around 5:23PM EST I was watching my local news, Channel 7 News Fox WSVN-TV, when a subject called “Defeat Depression” came to my interests. It showed an obese teenager named David Harvey playing a wrestling game at the beginning of the report and then it continues on as it shows him and his mother, Jeri Jashnoff, playing a cardboard game, sorry! (ironically). To make the story run short it explains that David’s mother losing her job in real estate from the bad economy and how worry some the teenager becomes after finding out that he can no longer get what he wants anymore because of the tight budget. Because his mother couldn’t afford the dangerous psychotropic drugs from her job lost she took him to a research facility called Segal Institute For Clinical Research where people get paid to become guinea pigs and take experimental drugs that hasn’t yet been approved by the FDA.

Richard Lemus interviewed the atrocious Psychiatrist, Dr. Scott Segal the owner of the Segal Institute for Clinical Research and has said:

Dr. Scott Segal, Psychiatrist, Segal Institute for Clinical Research: “It’s definitely making adults depressed, and therefore the children depressed, as well. However, they have less money to spend on treatments, and these days insurance companies have higher co-payments and it’s very difficult for people to come in.”

Even scarier, it’s hard for patients or their families to pay for the medications they so desperately need.

Dr. Scott Segal: “They get their visits and their evaluations and whatever is needed in the study for free, as well as medications. In fact, in research studies, the treatment is above the normal level of care.”

Patients will often try out new drugs that aren’t on the market yet and many times they can stay on that medication after the study is over.

Dr. Scott Segal: “In many studies, after the study is over, the pharmaceutical company will give them a compassionate care and allow them take the medications for a period of time.”

David is on a new medication and sees a doctor weekly. He and his mom have high hopes for the future.

What Richard Lemus and the Channel 7 News Fox WSVN-TV fail to revel to the public is that theirs other ways to defeat depression without the usage of the dangerous drugs. It’s called proper diet, exercise and proper outdoor activities like going to the beach or going to a park. In the whole segment of the story reported by Richard Lemus nowhere did it mention natural ways to deal with depression.

Transcript from this story can be seen on: URL: http://www.wsvn.com/features/articles/medicalreports/MI131332

Whistleblower Allen Jones gained international press coverage after uncovering pharmaceutical industry payments to government officials for the purpose of implementing a national mental health screening/psychotropic drug treatment plan. In this video interview Jones describes the pharma funding and psycho/pharma agenda behind mental health “screening” of schoolchildren. He is a former investigator for the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GhBfDMW2Fo[/youtube]

For more information go to

http://www.cchrint.org/2009/08/26/teen-screen-cynical-deception-dangerous-illusion/

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

A criminal investigation has begun into the death of a patient on a waiting room floor at a city-run psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn last year, the Brooklyn district attorney said on Tuesday.

The district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, said that a grand jury had begun an inquiry into the death of Esmin Green, 49, who died early on June 19, 2008, about 24 hours after arriving by ambulance at Kings County Hospital Center’s psychiatric emergency room, where doctors said she was schizophrenic and ordered her to be involuntarily committed.

According to hospital protocol, Ms. Green should have been given a medical examination before she was admitted.

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By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Published: 3:56PM BST 15 Jul 2009

Internet addiction has become a growing problem in China, where officials believe as many as four million people spend more than six hours a day online.

Several clinics have sprung up, offering parents the chance to “cure” their children of the uncontrollable urge to blog or play online games.

Tao Ran, from the Beijing Military General Hospital, runs a camp which gives addicts a mixture of counselling, military discipline and hypnosis.

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NEWS RELEASE — immediate release
MindFreedom International & California Network of Mental Health Clients
Contact: David Oaks (541) 345-9106 or Delphine Brody (916) 443-3232,
Ext. 19

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YOU MAY DOWNLOAD PDF of a two-page flier and below news release about
protest here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/apa
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Mental Health Clients and Psychiatric Survivors to Lead Protest of
APA Annual Meeting

Protesters Say: “Our Creative Support Will Overcome Psychiatric Corruption!”

When: *This* Sunday, 17 May 2009, 1 PM Where: Moscone Center, San Francisco

When psychiatric drug companies open up their famously lavish exhibits
inside the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Meeting at
Moscone Center, mental health clients and psychiatric survivors plan
to hold a “Nonviolent Festival of Resistance” directly in front, with
speakers, music and free refreshments.

The protest is part of a growing “Mad Pride” movement that has been
seeking change in mental health care for 40 years, and is finally
gaining more public attention, such as in a recent two-page feature in
Newsweek (2 May 2009, page 54, http://www.newsweek.com/id/195694). The
Sunday, May 17 event is co-sponsored by nonprofit groups MindFreedom
International (MFI) and California Network of Mental Health Clients
(CNMHC). The action is completely independent, with no connection to
a protest the day before by the Church of Scientology’s organization
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR).

Delphine Brody, a protest organizer with CNMHC, said, “We intend to
celebrate the healing power of peer support, and wellness/recovery-
based alternatives to the ‘medical’ model upheld by a psychiatric
profession that has sold out to the drug industry. Psychiatric
corruption kills. But mad pride heals!” Protesters are calling on the
public to join in with costumes, props and signs, and hope to create a
YouTube video of the street theater.

David Oaks, Director of MFI, from Oregon, said, “Martin Luther King
often called for us all to be ‘creatively maladjusted’ to overcome
injustice and embrace dignity and freedom. We mental health clients
and survivors of psychiatric abuse have a resiliency that can help a
world in crisis. All are welcome to join us!”

Ashley McNamara with Bay Area Radical Mental Health Collective, one of
the protest endorsers, said, “In a world where we are overwhelmed by
so much violence and catastrophe, on scales both personal and global,
I find it astounding that the ‘medical experts’ favor biological
diagnoses and pharmaceutical treatments above all other ways of
understanding mental distress and engaging in healing.” The protest is
also endorsed by the Social Accountability Work Group.

Mental health workers, family members and the general public are all
invited to participate in the legal and peaceful festival. San
Francisco mental health counselor Matthew Morrissey said, “I’m
protesting against the APA’s insistence on reducing the meaning of our
thoughts and feelings to brain diseases and also for the adoption of
safer, more empowering alternatives.”

Other confirmed speakers include: Larry Belcher, Executive Director,
CNMHC; Frank Blankenship, psychiatric survivor organizer from Florida;
Leonard Roy Frank, activist, author & electroshock survivor; Al
Galves, PhD, of New Mexico: psychologist, mental health consumer,
author, MFI board member; Ellen G. Levine, PhD, MPH., Psychologists
for an Ethical APA; Ron Unger, mental health counselor from Oregon;
Sally Zinman, long-time client/survivor activist; and many more.

For more information phone David Oaks at (541) 345-9106 or Delphine
Brody (916) 443-3232, Ext. 19. E-mail to action@mindfreedom.org.

Ray is a 55-year-old Minnesota resident who is regularly receiving “Involuntary Outpatient Maintenance Electroshock.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fJpvNHqXm0[/youtube]

Ray sandford FAQ

Please sign the petition to help Ray from having forced shock treatment http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-shocking-ray

To contact Governor Tim Pawlenty and Lt. Governor Carol Molnau, please write, phone, fax or e-mail.

Mailing Address:

Office of the Governor
130 State Capitol
75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55155

Telephone: (651) 296-3391
Toll Free:    (800) 657-3717
Facsimile:   (651) 296-2089
E-mail: tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us

by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) A recent article published in the Melbourne, Australia paper Herald Sun has drawn attention to the ongoing psychiatric practice of using electroshock therapy on children as young as four years of age.

Electroshock therapy, also known as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), is the practice of applying electric shocks to the brain in order to induce seizures and modify behavior by damaging “problematic” portions of the brain.
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“Inside Outside” is a work of hope created by former patients and film-makers Pat Deegan and Terry Strecker. The film depicts the lives of eight people with very significant histories of institutionalization, as they transition from nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals into the community. In the spirit of the President’s New Freedom Initiative and the Supreme Court’s Olmstead Decision, the film carries the message that recovery and life in the community are possibilities even for people who are viewed as the most chronic or impaired. The film leaves audiences of professionals and people with psychiatric disabilities alike, cheering for these eight individuals as they make their journey from inside institutions to full community inclusion on the outside. Produced for the US Department of Health And Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services. This is Part 1 of 2 parts. Producer: Pat Deegan, Ph.D and Terry Strecker
Production Company: Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. Creative Commons license: Public Domain.

PART 1

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-udSAzbbM[/youtube]

PART 2

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DnRvbgvjw[/youtube]