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Submitted by starvinghysteri... on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 9:10pm.
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Many of us died from this inept mental hell system, just checking in

Submitted by stdymphna on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 1:59pm.
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I broke on through to the other side of Icarus

Psychiatry is punitive - wherever you find it!

Submitted by Graeme on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 3:52pm.
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I've become embroiled in a discussion about how psychiatry is being utilized within the prison system as an additional means of punishment under the guise of 'penal reform'. No doubt psychiatry is inherently punitive when it functions in this capacity as partner to the judicial apparatus. But this is to say nothing of those innocents who find themselves incarcerated and punished in psychiatric prisons (euphemistically referred to as 'hospitals') without even having broken any laws. (This actually means the vast majority of psychiatric 'patients'.)

Leaving the Mainstream for the Ocean...

Submitted by courtneyawalsh on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 2:24pm.
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Bipolar author of "Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin" describes the limits of psycho-logical language, the contraints vs. liberation of diagnoses and how symptoms are signals to pay attention to, but not be afraid of necessarily...

Review Of The Child Savers, a book demystifying the 'polytricks' of reducing people to labels, etc.

Submitted by Chas on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 3:26pm.
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"The problem with children, and with working class children in particualr, was that they refused to be integrated smoothly into an oppressive society. ...The child savers turned political problems into adjustment problems. Instead of seeking political solutions to the problems of young people, they chose therapeutic remedies, thereby deflecting criticisms of capitalism onto its victims."

Excerpts from The Tyranny of the Therapeutic State

Submitted by Chas on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 3:11pm.
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Anyone dealing with the hierarchical structure of institutions these days may want to understand them better so to more meaningfully challenge those portions (or entireties) in which they feel pained by. These excerpts may be pivotal.

Minneapolis: Mad Gifts Week: Open Mic/Poetry Slam & Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Submitted by sealux on Wed, 10/17/2007 - 2:06pm.
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The Making of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs

Submitted by Icarus Project on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 10:32pm.
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9 months of research, writing, editing, discussing, consulting, planning, designing, sweating, panicking, despairing, freaking out, emailing back and forth, mutual aid, dreaming, community solidarity, and crazy-outta-control mad love later, the much-awaited 40-page book about reducing and coming off psych meds hits the presses...

Harm Reduction Guide To Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs

Submitted by Icarus Project on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 9:54pm.
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The Icarus Project and Freedom Center's 40-page guide gathers the best information we've come across and the most valuable lessons we've learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Includes info on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, withdrawal, detailed Resource section, information for people staying on their medications, and much more. Written by Will Hall, with a 14-member health professional Advisory board providing research assistance and 24 other collaborators involved in developing and editing. The guide has photographs and art throughout, and a beautiful original cover painting by Ashley McNamara. Download a .pdf to read or a 'zine version to print and fold into a booklet (instructions included). Published copies also available on our Publications page.

Latest Mania- Selling Bipolar Disorder

Submitted by will on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 5:13am.
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Leading UK critical psychiatrist on the soaring rates of bipolar diagnosis as a result of pharma marketing.

MIND-UK Study on How People Come Off Psych Drugs

Submitted by Icarus Project on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 9:26am.
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MIND, the leading mental health charity in the UK, published this detailed study on how people experience coming off psychiatric drugs. Because they learned how unhelpful doctors can be, they changed their policy and no longer recommend people try to come off drugs only with their doctor's approval.

MIND-UK Coping With Coming Off Psych Drugs Guide

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 4:52pm.
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MIND is the leading UK mental health charity. This is their excellent guide to coming off psychiatric drugs, available at http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Making+sense/Making+sense+of+coming+off+psychiatric+drugs.htm http://snipurl.com/MINDComingOffGuide

Icarus in Adbusters Magazine

Submitted by Icarus Project on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 2:16pm.
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Will Hall of Icarus and Freedom Center just had a story on the Zyprexa memos scandal published in Adbusters... Check it out. Download PDF of Adbusters Zyprexa article

Read Article & Comments on Adbusters Site

Judge Lifts Gag Order Against Icarus Staff Will Hall

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 02/16/2007 - 5:24pm.
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The Brooklyn Court has ruled that the gag order on Will Hall and other advocates who received copies of leaked documents is lifted! Advocates who did not return the documents had their injunctions made permanent, however, and the ruling has put atttorney Jim Gottstein, who subpoenaed the files and gave them to the New York Times, in very hot water.

Mental Screenings - another Bush / Pharma Scam

Submitted by Freedom Center on Wed, 01/31/2007 - 6:03pm.
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Video about Teen Screen and mental health screenings for suicide, depression, mental illness as a pharmaceutical company marketing scam backed by the Bush administration.

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