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MISCELLANEY | publications | | on the light site | | subject index |

The influence of mental health professionals on the average person is far more extensive than most people may suspect. Propaganda generated over the past few decades has only strengthened this influence – generally, the line is that so many millions of people "suffer from mental disorders" – hence implying the market for the services of mental health careerists is immense.

When one makes connections between the desires of the powerful to exert subtle forms of social control onto the global citizenry ...together with reclassifying mental health services into "behavioral health"... well, the potential for abuse is staggering. …and as an advocate, it's my interest to see the abuse first minimized, then altogether eliminated.

This is not to discount the reality that some people do experience dramatic breaks in their cognitive / perceptual abilities so severe as to disrupt their everyday thought processes. And legitimate treatment options need to be available for people who become so disabled.

So here are links to resources that provide a range of useful tools. (know of others sites that belong here but aren't listed? let me know the URL and they shall be included)


PEOPLE

advocacy | patients' rights advocates, human rights organizations & agencies, sites that spell out advocacy concerns
watchdog agencies | gov't and industry regulators & program reviewers
first person accounts | consumers / psych survivors / ex-patients speak out about their experiences ~what works, what doesn't, what helps and what hurts ...and options for the future
bureaucracies | the folks who enforce the rules, plan for and start programs, guide the philosphical underpinnings of mental health services and pay the bills
treaters | humane care providers

TREATMENT

self help | self-help strategies and recovery models
voluntary treatments | interventions that clients choose to make use of; programs that don't follow the insurance mill route; self-care and "alternative" treatments
diagnostics | psyche disabilities that the "neurobiological disorder" crowd would like to ignore: post-traumatic stress; add/adhd; "borderlines"; obsessive-compulsive; eating disorders; aftermath of torture
medication info | if you are putting drugs into your body, (from self medicating or by prescription ~or both) you need to know about them
forced treatment | forced treatment has been considered acceptable since the days of benjamin rush, who once said that doctors could "...threaten patients with death..." if they did not comply with treatment. the sentiments found here suggest humanity hasn't gotten too far away from that point of view

RIGHTS

laws & statutes | mental patients' rights laws around the world
patient rights - connecticut | a summary of legally protected rights for adults in connecticut's mental health system
due process | a patients' right in treatment
critical issues | ethics; confidentiality; conservatorships; housing & employment; discrimination, prejudice and stigma; the violence myth; forced treatment; the dangers of mis-diagnosis; ngri; and other subjects which don't easily fit into other sections

MISCELLANEY

publications | online (and offline) reading material on mental health issues
on the light site | every now and again we have to laugh. humor really is therapeutic, even when it's sometimes grim
subject index | can't find it anywhere else? a subject list of websites that discuss different topics related to psychiatric and mental health issues


LEGAL & DISCLAIMER NOTICE: ©: 2000 / Will Brady // I hope you've found the site interesting, even thought provoking. Most of the links are up-to-date, but I can't always guarantee the state of activity for other sites. Please don't write to me about the content of sites linked from here. On the other hand, please let me know of any inactive links. Constructive comments, suggested links to add, are welcome.
image thanks to DENDRON This page is presented as a public service by the owner of this website. He works in mental health / human rights advocacy.

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advocacy organizations:
resources for those who are denied that care as well as helping those to help themselves
Advocacy Unlimited / Wethersfield, CT, USA / http://mindlink.org/
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law / http://www.bazelon.org/
NOTE: For reasons I am at a loss to understand, some filtering software programs [CyberPatrol] have censored the Bazelon site.
National Empowerment Center / http://www.concentric.net/~Power2u/
National Mental Health Consumer Self-help Clearinghouse / http://www.mhselfhelp.org/index2.html
The Mental Illness Activist / mostly European and International listings / http://www.m-i-activist.com/
Peer Center /Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA / http://www.peercenter.org/
Support Coaltion International / DENDRON's new site 1999 / http://www.MindFreedom.org/
watchdogs
formal agencies or organizations who guard vigilantly so that care for the mentally disabled is caring, sane and humane.
HCFA / Health Care Financing & Administration / http://www.hcfa.gov/
JCAHO / Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations / http://www.jcaho.org
Health Care Safety Institute: / http://www.hcsinstitute.com/
NARPA / National Association for Rights, Protection & Advocacy / http://www.connix.com/~narpa
Protection & Advocacy / http://www.protectionandadvocacy.com/
individual treaters
Dr. Peter Breggin / International Center for the Study of Psychiatry & Psychology / http://www.breggin.com
Dr.John Grohol / http://www.grohol.com
The Skeptical Psychiatrist / http://home.gci.net/~dougs/
survivors
folks who have been subjected to involuntary, inappropriate, irrelevant or abusive treatments in the name of care and who now speak out against those commit such human rights violations.
Aleppos / "Oddessey of a lone, mad pilgrim" / http://www.aleppos.org/
DENDRON / http://www.efn.org/~dendron
Faith's Mental Health Links / http:/mentalhealth.faithweb.com/index.html
MadNation / http://www.madnation.org/
Madness Network / http://www.peoplewho.org/Madness/
People Against Coercive Treatment / http://www.tao.ca/~pact/
Psychiatric Outlaw's Homepage / http://www.angelfire.com/ny/psychiatricoutlaw/
Norsehorse's Home Turf / http://members.tripod.com/~Norsehorse/
Scott Huffman / http://www.efn.org/~seh/
Shocked: Juli's Page / http://home.i1.net/~juli/shocked.html
Shoshanna's Guide / http://harborside.com/home/e/equinox/welcome.htm
Zangmo Blue Thundercloud / http://home.earthlink.bet/~sallyclay/
professional organizations
American Association of Psychiatric Technicians / http://www.aapt.com/issues.htm
Licensed Psychiatric Technicians / http://www.psych-health.com/techs.htm
Restraint Reduction Newsletter / An HCFA publication / http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/rrnews.htm
National Mental Health Association / http://www.nmha.org/
National Institutes of Health / http://web.fie.com/fedix/nih.html
Social Security Administration / http://www.ssa.gov/SSA_Home.html/
Social Work Access Network / http://www.sc.edu/swan/
SAMSHA / http://www.samhsa.gov/

information / self-help strategies
Handing Mental Illness at Work and at School / http://www.bu.edu/sarpsych/jobschool/index.html
Helping someone who feels suicidal / NOTE: this is not a substitute for clinical, crisis or even emergency professional support, if necessary. Ask for assistance when needed. / http://www.crisissupport.org/crisis/second.htm
What if the Police come to take you to the hospital? / http://www.mindlink.org/police.htm
information / directories, search engines, publications
Galaxy's Mental Health links page / The links already on this site indicate a growing resource. Also has a search engine that links to the WWW for more info. Worth watching it grow. / http://galaxy.com/galaxy/Community/Health/Mental-Health.html
Mental Health Dictionary / From a radical psychotherpist's perspective http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/psychotherapy/apread.html
information / treatment programs
Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation / http://www.bu.edu/sarpsych/
Clubhouse Model Programs / http://www.ICCD.org/
Knowledge Exchange Network / http://www.mentalhealth.org/
information / abuse & trauma issues
 I focus on trauma and abuse issues in part because I believe they get under-represented by clinicans and and researchers, in part because it is a category that flies in the philsophical face of the biopsychiatry / "damaged brain chemistry" crowd, in part beacuse it reflects my own connections with diagnostic issues. Others have made sites far more extensive on diagnostic information. You may want to search them out.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Bibliography / http://www.sover.net/~schwcof/ptsd.html
Abuse and Trauma & Incidence / http://www.madnation.org/traumareport.htm
Incest Abuse Survivor's Site / http://incestabuse.miningco.com/library/Justice/bljust.htm
Kevin's Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Site / http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/5671/
Law Enforcement and Child Abuse / http://wchat.on.ca/web/asarc/law.html
Out of the Darkness / http://members.theglobe.com/lostdove/default.html
Rape, Violence and Abuse / http://www.vix.com/men/abuse/abuse.html
Torture Survivor's Network / http://www.pacinfo.com/eugene/tsnet/


issues & concerns
subjects that warrant thought, reflection and discussion
involuntary treatment
 Impact of Forced Treatment / http://home.i1.net/~juli/mrights.html
People Against Coercive Treatment / http://www.tao.ca/~pact/
HCFA Restraints Reduction Newsletter / http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/rrnews.htm
Treatment Advocacy Center / This is the propaganda vehicle of E. Fuller Torrey to promote forced treatment(Torrey is now employed by the US Department of Defense). / http://www.psychlaws.org/default.htm
medications | Go to alternative and voluntary treatments page
the "violent patient" myth
 MacArthur Research Center on Mental Health Law / http://ness.sys.virginia.edu/macarthur/
miscellaneous topics
The Brain in health & disease / http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~rebhan/news.html
Effects of Mis-diagnosis / http://kendaco.telebyte.com/~cgrandy/framdocs/issues.html
Glore Psychiatric Museum / more than most people propably want to know about the history of mental illness treatments / http://www.stjomo.com/glore_psychiatric_museum.htm
History of Lobotomy / http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n02/historia/lobotomy.htm