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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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Major topics...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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In...
Mental Health Advocacy and Activism: Perspectives on Systems and Social Transformation
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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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
“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...
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.
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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...