MindFreedom Ireland Annual Report 2018
As we complete our 15th year of activity since our foundation in 2003, MindFreedom Ireland (MFIrl) can now take the opportunity to assess where it is, what it has achieved and where it is going. Our core objectives remain as they always have, namely to abolish forced ‘treatment’, to achieve human rights for all without […]
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND PRESS RELEASE.
PERSISTENT PROTESTORS CONTINUE CAMPAIGN. For the 11th year running, yet another public protest against the psychiatric procedure of electroshock took place on The Grand Parade, Cork on Saturday. During the procedure, an electric current is passed through the brain of an anaesthetised person to deliberately induce a grand mal seizure. Psychiatrists defend the practice by […]
Protest Against Controversial Psychiatric Electroshock
MINDFREEDOM IRELAND PRESS RELEASE PROTEST AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL PSYCHIATRIC ELECTROSHOCK. A protest against the controversial psychiatric practice of electroshock, still used in Irish hospitals today, will take place in Cork next Saturday, May 12th. The procedure, carried out under general anaesthetic, involves passing an electric current through a person’s brain sufficient to cause a grand mal […]
A Disorder for Everyone
http://www.adisorder4everyone.com/gallery/ ‘A Disorder for Everyone’ is coming to Cork on Friday, June 1st, 2018.
Annual Report 2017
Like the flame at the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier, the flickering flame of MindFreedom Ireland (MFI) has been burning non-stop now for 14 years. Sometimes it has burned brightly, sometimes not so brightly, but it has never been extinguished. The reason for that is the selfless work of a relatively small number of loyal […]
Annual Report 2017
MindFreedom Ireland Annual Report 2017 Like the flame at the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier, the flickering flame of MindFreedom Ireland (MFI) has been burning non-stop now for 14 years. Sometimes it has burned brightly, sometimes not so brightly, but it has never been extinguished. The reason for that is the selfless work of a […]
WPA CONFERENCE BERLIN 2017
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 […]