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My Semester with the Icarus Project

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 8:26am.

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NYC organizer Neil Gong interned with Icarus as an NYU student and wrote this paper about Mad Pride activism.

Freedom To Sit: Welcoming People With Psychiatric Disabilities At Meditation Retreats

Submitted by will on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 9:52pm.

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Summer 2007 article by Will Hall in Turning Wheel: A Journal Of Socially Engaged Buddhism, published by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Download pdf version.

Vets Aren't Crazy, War Is.

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 08/31/2007 - 7:40pm.

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Feminist professor Paula Caplan on the need to not focus on therapy and drugs to help US war in Iraq vets. From Tikkun magazine. http://paulajcaplan.net/ and www.psychdiagnosis.net

Judi Chamberlin on WANA and Real Alternatives

Submitted by will on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 9:06pm.

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Pioneering psych survivor leader Judi Chamberlin writes about real peer-controlled alternatives to the mainstream system in this chapter from her book On Our Own, including the history of WANA -- We Are Not Alone -- and the creation of Fountain House.

Study On How "It's An Illness Like Any Other" Approach Increases Stigma and Discrimination

Submitted by Icarus Project on Thu, 08/23/2007 - 10:18am.

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A definitive article from a mainstream psychiatric journal revealing research that shows promoting the 'mental illness is a disease like any other' message, popular with Big Pharma, actually increases stigma and discrimination, not reduces it.