NEWS: MFI radio: Matt Morrissey on choice in mental health, live free on Interne

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NEWS: MFI radio: Matt Morrissey on choice in mental health,

live free on Internet

 

 

 

MindFreedom News -- 31 July 2006

http://www.MindFreedom.org - please forward

 

Public Service Announcement:

 

MFI Weekly News Hour Live Free Internet Radio:

 

Listen to two activists diagnosed " psychotic "

discuss alternatives in the mental health

system... LIVE on free Internet radio!

 

You may e-mail in questions & comments live.

 

TOMORROW, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 at 1 pm eastern time, 10 am pacific

time, you may hear Matt Morrissey as a guest on MindFreedom Weekly

News Hour Internet radio show hosted by David Oaks, as part of the

Progressive Radio Network.

 

The guest and host will will dialogue about how choice is getting

squeezed out of the current mental health industry, and how there

ought to be a full range of humane, safe, effective, non-drug

alternatives.

 

Just click on http://www.theprn.org on Tuesdays, 1 pm eastern, 10 am

pacific. The MFI weekly show is live and free. Good news: The

producers announced that the sound level of guests on newer shows is

now fixed!

 

Matt will talk about creating working alternatives for people like

Matt and David who were diagnosed with what are considered " serious "

psychiatric disabilities such as a label of schizohprenia. Matt is a

psychiatric survivor and is now director of the adult day program at

Full Spectrum Progressive Mental Health, which is a major nonprofit

center in San Francisco that offers all-day voluntary programs for

adults and adolescents in severe emotional distress.

 

Matthew Morrissey, MFTI, received his Master's degree in Counseling

Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2002.

Matt interned for two years at Burch House, a therapeutic community

modeled after the Philadelphia Association's households in London.

While at Burch House he learned how to maintain a humanistic milieu

for people in extreme distress. Matthew also has a decade of

experience as an activist in the psychiatric survivor movement.

 

Matt's primary clinical interest is the facilitation of recovery from

severe emotional distress, such as

states of mind labeled as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,

depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Other interests

include philosophy and its relation to psychology and psychoanalysis.

He is a member of the International Center for the Study of

Psychiatry and Psychology, The International Society for the

Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses,

The Society for Laingian Studies, and MindFreedom International. Full

Spectrum is a Sponsor Group in MFI.

 

YOU may e-mail your questions and comments before, during or after

the show at radio. Your comments and questions may be

read live during the show.

 

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Be part of a nonviolent revolution in mental health! Listen to the

MindFreedom News Hour every week, usually live, at Tuesday, 1 pm

eastern time, 10 am pacific time. Just click on http://www.theprn.org

 

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Archives of the MindFreedom News Hour are now available.

 

If you miss a live show you may listen to the archive at http://

www.theprn.org. Just click on " shows " and go to MindFreedom News

Hour. Older Macs made have trouble hearing the archive, sorry...

we're a Mac office and we sympathize, we're working on fixing that.

 

Here are past shows now on the archive by DATE (the new web site does

not have name labels yet):

 

07/25/06 Guest = Hugh Massengill -- Surviving trauma and psychiatric

abuse.

 

07/18/06 Guest = Al Galves, PhD -- How dissident mental health

professionals can be good allies.

 

07/11/06 Guest = Celia Brown -- Celia's story of surviving

psychiatry, promoting alternatives, and speaking out inside the

United Nations for three years as President of MindFreedom

International.

 

06/27/06 Guest = Krista Erickson -- Mad Pride! How you can organize a

Mad Pride event and join in with anchor events in four nations: Ghana

Africa, UK, Canada and USA.

 

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Do you want to...

 

* Win human rights campaigns in mental health?

 

* End abuse by the psychiatric drug industry?

 

* Support the self-determination of psychiatric survivors?

 

* Promote safe, humane and effective options in mental health?

 

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unites 100 sponsor and affiliate groups with individual members, and

is accredited by the United Nations as a Non-Governmental

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today!

 

MindFreedom is one of the very few totally independent groups in the

mental health field with no funding from governments, drug companies,

religions, corporations, or the mental health system. While most of

MindFreedom's members are psychiatric survivors, *all* who support

human rights are invited to join and become active leaders.

 

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