I remember the first time I watched Dina Tyler on stage in 2014 on a youtube video and fell in love! Here she presents her psych survivor storyand the story of so many of us with open vulnerability in front of a room filled with psychiatrists. And then tells them how it should be. I am in awe.
We have since worked together on Mad Camp (which Dina truly made happen…she was the power force behind the entire project). Dina Tyler is a wonder woman in my eyes.
This is her website dinatyler.com
More on topic. Let’s make real care available to everyone:
*** Organizing Guide for Psychiatric Survivors
- Community Mental Health in Times of Crisis
- State of mental health care
- From Self Care to Collective Caring
- Standard psychiatric care: torture (yes, the United Nations, too, calls forced treatment torture)
- Harms of over-treatment in medical care — this is true throughout all of medicine but especially true in psychiatry
- Where Do Messages of Hopelessness in Mental Health Care Come From?
- Health care is a human right
- Exposing the Mental Health system – Only Smarties exhibition
- Mental health professionals along with police, teachers and the corporate press are the guards of the system
- Coming Off Psych Drugs: A Meeting of the Minds — new documentary and info
- Can Our Medical Model of Care Be Remade? — By Robert Whitaker
- Why I’m pro-information and pro-choice when it comes to drugs and medications in mental health care
- Shrinks get patients hooked on drugs and then cut the cord
- Open Dialogue: Alternative Care for Psychosis
- Coercion, subtle or otherwise, is the rule in psychiatric care…
- Medically induced illness: iatrogenic injury
The below are pieces written specifically about the divide between the professionals in the system and those who are subject to their care and/or abuse.
- Bridging Patient-Professional Divide
- Mental health-related stigma in health care and mental health-care settings: response to journal article
- Professional denial is a form of retraumatization (new)
- Being the empowered patient
- The divide between client/patient/consumer and professionals (with list of links)
- healing journey — part 1 and 2 (brief thoughts from this morning to a friend)
- A doctor who talks sense about the all too frequent use of coercion in medicine
- Informed Choice: Pro-information and pro-choice when it comes to drugs and medications
- Words for all in the “helping” professions (and for any human who wants to benefit others)
- Medical compliance? Adherence? No. My MDs are my PARTNERS
- Letters to my shrink
Other significant pieces:
- Mad Rad Crisis Intervention Team Training: psych survivors train sheriff deputies
- Providing sanctuary (alternative to hospitalization in community)
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