As we in the United States get ready to sit down for Thanksgiving to the blessings in our lives, and the holiday season is coming up for us here and many around the world, I thought I would report on PsychRights®' efforts in 2012 on behalf of those who are enduring psychiatric drugs and electroshock being forced upon them.
This is discussed in detail below, but I want to make sure you are aware of the
Occupy Psychiatry effort and if you are on Facebook to (1) go to the
Occupy Psychiatry Facebook Page and "Like" it, (2) support
Occupy Psychiatry Events and (3) "share" postings on
Occupy Psychiatry's Timeline. Now, on to PsychRights' 2012 Report . . .
Focus on Public Attitudes/PublicEducation
At the beginning of the year a few things converged to cause PsychRights to focus on the Public Attitudes or Public Education part of what I think of as the transformation triangle:
Transformation Triangle
The approach is that addressing three spheres: Public Attitudes/Public Education, Alternatives/Other Choices, and Honoring Legal Rights/Strategic Litigation, can reinforce each others in ways that can bring about meaningful change in the Mental Illness System. I gave a talk about this approach last May in Philadelphia, which has been uploaded to YouTube as, A Strategic Approach to Mental Health System Change. This video is currently unlisted, because it is directed at people interested in this struggle, rather than the general public. I also wrote a paper about, How the Legal System Can Help Create a Recovery Culture in Mental Health Systems, presented at Alternatives 2005: Leading the Transformation to Recovery, Phoenix, Arizona, October 28, 2005. The title was selected to get past the censors at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the government sponsor of the annual Alternatives conference.
PsychRights only sends out a of couple messages a year and this one has tons of awesome links
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