Friday, 13, December, 2024

THIS WEEKEND! Neuroplasticity: A Path for Healing from Protracted Withdrawal Symptoms

From Mad in America - this Weekend! A panel on recovering from protracted psychiatric drug withdrawal using neuroplasticity, featuring inspiring stories and useful strategies. Saturday August...

Liquids and Tapering Strips: Formulations in Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

On June 28th, The International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal (IIPDW) is hosting a webinar. Liquids & Tapering Strips: Formulations in Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal The what,...

New Canadian Benzodiazepine Documentary – AIRS FEBRUARY 15th!

Radio-Canada's Enquête presents "Cauchemar Sur Ordonnance" (Season 17: Episode 17) The episode's title translates to 'prescription nightmare' in French, and it will focus on the...

Video Presentation – ‘The Science and Art of Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs’

Inner Compass Initiative is pleased to share a video recording of a recent live event.  ‘The Science and Art of Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs’. This video...

A Disorder for Everyone – Online Festival 2023

A Disorder for Everyone! - The Online Festival 2023 Friday September 22nd, 9am-8pm GMT https://youtu.be/2Mlw_GTN17o?si=pDrPmpcwORIU_8Xc   This is a donation only event to ensure that it is as...

SAVE THE DATE! IIPDW Conference

Save the Date! On Friday October 20th and Saturday October 21st, the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal will hold its 3rd conference on withdrawal...

A Disorder for Everyone! – The Online Festival 2023

Part of the Workshops that offer non-pathologising approaches collection. A whole day of change-making talks, presentations, conversations, poetry etc challenging the culture of diagnosis and...

Announcing Oral History Collection on Mental Health Activists in Manitoba

Stories are us.  Finding ourselves in history, we figure out who we are and where we belong and how what we do fits with...

Freedom To Be – Herstory Writing Workshop

Freedom To Be A 15-week Herstory Writing Workshop for those harmed by being labelled BPD, hosted by Rebecca Donaldson & The Herstory Writing Network. When: Sundays,...

A Disorder for Everyone! – The Online Festival 2022

The 3rd annual AD4E festival will bring you a whole day of change-making talks, presentations, conversations, poetry from far and wide. About this event In...

Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction: Providing Ethical & Trauma-Informed Care

Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction is an highly stigmatized, understudied, and underreported sexual health condition. About this event 630pm - 830pm, Tuesday, June 28, 2022 (Pacific) Online presentation/workshop,...

“Open Season on Mental Patients”: A reading with Irit Shimrat

Jim Gottstein, JD, is a lawyer, author of The Zyprexa Papers, and a Mad in America contributor. At the 2014 NARPA Conference, Jim attended Irit...

Review of the Conference on Withdrawal and Side Effects: IIPDW

The online conference Withdrawal From Psychiatric Drugs was held on Friday May 6th and 7th. An extremely important topic for us at Mad in...

WITHDRAWAL FROM PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS – ONLINE CONFERENCE

Friday 6th & Saturday 7th May 2022 You can now book your ticket by visiting the Eventbrite page. Download the flyer to share with friends, family...

Book Launch – Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness

https://uwaterloo.ca/renison/events/book-launch-interrogating-psychiatric-narratives-madness?fbclid=IwAR1lyaqTcj1mHHiCHEdjL8z8xSB58nLToO3UpKQSCXEgGAvAJJPPGKnqUds Please join the editors and contributors of Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented Lives on Thursday, March 31, 2:00-3:30pm EST for our official book launch event. Register...

AD4E – A Disorder for Everyone … Upcoming Events

A Disorder for Everyone! Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis. A Disorder for Everyone! is an innovative and pioneering organization based in the UK. AD4E has...

Kids in Crisis: the Overprescribing of Psychiatric Medication

A special, private screening of Luna followed by a panel discussion. About this event Mad in America is pleased to announce a pre-release screening of the...

Mental Health Advocacy and Activism: Perspectives on Systems and Social Transformation

About this event This is an online event. You can register here. Note: You can register for free with the code "Freebie." Co-sponsored by Mad in America...

“Cured”

Bruce Levine reviews “Cured,” a PBS Independent Lens documentary about gay liberation from psychiatry to be broadcast on October 11, 2021.  Levine writes: "Cured is...

23rd Annual ISEPP Conference October 9-10, 2021

Notice of the 23rd Annual ISEPP Conference "The Destructive Propaganda of the Mental Health Industry: How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Going?" on...

Mental Health Advocacy and Activism: Perspectives from Living Experience-Based Practices

From Mad in America Continuing Education Thursday, September 23rd, 2021. 1pm Eastern, 12pm Central, 11am Mountain, 10 am Pacific Participants will be introduced to highlights of...

Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Exploring Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities: #4 – The psychiatric drugging of...

Mad in America, the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and A Disorder 4 Everyone are pleased to announce a series...

Virtual Film Screening – The Wisdom of Trauma featuring Dr. Gabor Mate

Global Bioethics Initiative will be screening the film ‘The Wisdom of Trauma’ featuring Dr. Gabor Mate. The film will be followed by a moderated discussion...

July 22: MIA Continuing Ed webinar on Hearing Voices: The Value of Experts by...

In this webinar Dmitriy Gutkovich will present on how lived experience is reshaping support and strategy in the hearing voices community. About this event Major topics...

Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal – Town Hall Discussion #3

Watch the recording of the third psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall discussion, aired live on May 14, 2021. Featuring panelists Adele Framer, Will Hall,...

A Disorder for Everyone! – The Online Festival 2021

A Disorder for Everyone! - The Online Festival 2021 In September 2020 two and a half thousand people from over 15 different countries registered for...