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Dr Peter Breggin has been called the “conscience of psychiatry” during his outstanding career to reform the mental health field. He is a Harvard trained psychiatrist and a former consultant for the National Institutes of Mental Health. He is also one of the harshest critics of our current conventional psychotherapeutic approach in treating mental disorders in both adults and children, particularly the epidemic use of psychoactive drugs. His books and articles include “Your Drug May be Your Problem” and “Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood Altering Medications”.
David Oaks: Director of Mind Freedom International. He was diagnosed as schizophrenic and bipolar, forced on psychiatric drugging and solitary confinement. David is a social activist dedicated to the reform of the psychiatric profession and a supporter of psychiatric survivor support efforts. He is also on the Board for the US International Council on Disability.
Leonard Roy Frank was committed to a psychiatric institution in 1963. He has undergone 50 insulincoma treatments and 35 electroconvulsive procedures. Leonard is co-founder of the Network Against Psychiatric Assault; he is a member of Mind Freedom International and the Coalition for the Abolition of Electroshock in Texas. Leonard has written several books including “The History of Shock Treatment” and “The Electroshock Quotationary”.
Judy Carroll: Michigan housewife, former teacher with degrees in Education, Sociology, and Community Organization; she started medication for anxiety and depression in 1991. In 2004 she started electroconvulsive therapy on the promise it was a safe alternative treatment. During the course of 2 hospital stays in 2004 and 2005, she received 19 electroshocks, with cognitive problems after each hospital discharge; she has been on 39 different psychotropic medications, with numerous side effects.
Loretta Wilson: Psychiatric survivor and homeowner in Flushing, Michigan. Between 1993 and 2000, she received 58 electroconvulsive treatments. Her physicians have diagnosed her with over 17 different psychiatric labels, and she has been prescribed 38 different powerful antipsychotics in various combinations.