MindFreedom Ireland Press Release
SURVIVOR OF PSYCHIATRY TO ADDRESS WORLD PSYCHIATRIC CONGRESS Cork woman Mary Maddock and her husband Jim have been invited to speak at the XV11 World Congress of Psychiatry to be held in Berlin, October 8th to 12th. The Maddocks are joint authors of the book ‘Soul Survivor – A Personal Encounter with Psychiatry’ which challenges […]
Cork Electroshock Protest May, 2017
A public protest against the psychiatric procedure of electroshock took place in Cork on Saturday. A number of speakers referred to the fact that, following a decline in the 1980’s and 90’s, electroshock is now on the increase again. Apart from causing cellular brain injury it is also, in a ratio of 2 to 1, […]
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND PRESS RELEASE MAY 6TH, 2017.
PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVOR GROUP MARKS 10 YEARS OF PROTEST. On Saturday May 13th, psychiatric survivor group MindFreedom Ireland will mark 10 years of protest against the controversial procedure of electroshock with a public demonstration on The Grand Parade, Cork. Increasingly worldwide, shock recipients are speaking out against the outdated and brain damaging procedure in the face […]
Cork Electroshock Protest 13th May 2017
A Crime Against HumanityIt is our right to Be Human! We call ourselves human because we have human complex brains. We have freedom of choice and are privileged to have the power to create. Therefore to deliberately damage the human brain is a crime against humanity. The function of electroshock is to cause cellular brain […]
OVER 13 YEARS OF PEACEFUL REVOLUTION AND RESISTANCE FROM MINDFREEDOM IRELAND
The 3 years between 2000 and 2003 were a period of new stirrings in Ireland. Established medical model psychiatry was beginning to be challenged. In 2001 Dr. Terry Lynch published his book ‘Beyond Prozac’. Paddy McGowan established The Irish Advocacy Network and soon afterwards The Cork Advocacy Network came into existence thanks to the work […]
Cork Electroshock Protest 13th May 2017
A Crime Against HumanityIt is our right to Be Human! We call ourselves human because we have human complex brains. We have freedom of choice and are privileged to have the power to create. Therefore to deliberately damage the human brain is a crime against humanity. The function of electroshock is to cause cellular brain […]
Press Release
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND PRESS RELEASE. UN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST TO SPEAK IN CORK U.S. lawyer and human rights activist Tina Minkowitz will speak at a public meeting in Cork on January 20th. Ms Minkowitz is a former co-chairperson of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) and is founder of the Centre for […]
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND ANNUAL REPORT 2016.
2016 saw MindFreedom Ireland (MFIrl) continue its work of peer support, activism, campaigning for alternatives and putting forward the voices of those of us unhappy with conventional medical model bio-psychiatry. STAND BY ME. This peer support group continued to meet every Wednesday at 3pm in Costa’s in Douglas, Cork. With a steadfast and loyal backbone […]
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND ANNUAL REPORT 2016.
2016 saw MindFreedom Ireland (MFIrl) continue its work of peer support, activism, campaigning for alternatives and putting forward the voices of those of us unhappy with conventional medical model bio-psychiatry. STAND BY ME. This peer support group continued to meet every Wednesday at 3pm in Costa’s in Douglas, Cork. With a steadfast and loyal backbone […]
More Harm Than Good
More Harm Than Good I was baptised and brought up in the Catholic faith. I joined the Ursuline order of nuns when I finished secondary school as I naively thought that I would become a better person and also help others. At that time, the church was self critical and seemed to want to renew […]