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Links (updated August 31, 2006)

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Recovery

Peter Lehmann's International Internet-Portal Self-help & Alternatives to Psychiatry

The Freedom Center

The National Empowerment Center
599 Canal Street,
Lawrence, MA
01840 USA
Outside the U.S.: 1-978-685-1518
Fax: 1-978-694-9117

Pat Deegan and Associates: Recovery and the Conspiracy of Hope

Institute for the Study of Human Resilience
(Dr. Courtney Harding) Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Boston University
940 Commonwealth Avenue West
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: 617-353-3549
Fax: 617-353-7700

Recovery Without Treatment: NY Times

Critique of Psychiatric Drugs site, by US pychiatrists: PsychTruth.

Recovery in the Mainstream: US News

Soteria Project (with respect to Loren Mosher who passed away on July 10, 2004)

More links on recovery

The Berlin Runaway House

Gould Farm

The "Trieste" mental health system

Go to the Source:
www.triestesalutementale.it

Alternative Mental Health

Dr. Peter Breggin

"Quitting Psychiatric Drugs"

Spiritual Emergence Network

Database of Alternative Therapies

Windhorse

Consumer Self-Help Clearinghouse

Legal Advise

Contact the Lawyer Referral Service
from 9 am to 5 pm, weekdays at:
1-900-565-4577
(this service costs $6.00 and goes on
your phone bill).

OR contact them for FREE if you are in a crisis situation (ex. domestic abuse, or in an institution):
1-800-268-8326 in Ontario,
or 416-947-3330 in Toronto.

Call a Community Legal Clinic (also for getting legal advise or a Legal Aid Certificate to cover legal costs). Look in your telephone white pages for: "LEGAL AID ONTARIO".

Power of Attorney

Call the Public Guardian and Trustee FREE at: 1-800-366-0335 in Ontario, or 416-327-6683 in Toronto.

Also, call your local Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office or call toll free 1-800-578-2343

Mental Health Legislation

Mental Health Act Forms from the Ministry of Health

"Rights and Responsibilities: Mental Health and the Law" (Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, 2001). You need an Acrobat Reader to view this...

The Ontario Mental Health Act (Ontario government's "E-Laws" - up to date!)

Health Care Consent Act

Acts Regarding Mental Health in Ontario

Advocacy Information

PsychRights: Law Project for Psychiatric Rights

Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office or call toll free 1-800-578-2343

Consent and Capacity Board

College of Physicians and Surgeons

Advocacy Centre for the Handicapped

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (US)

College of Psychologists of Ontario

College of Nurses of Ontario

Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Consumer, Survivor and User Links

map of contacts A map of some c/s initiatives in Ontario

Mad Students Society

Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto

Action Autonomie, in Montreal, Quebec

World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP)

MindFreedom.org or Support Coalition International

Listen to the Voices (UK)

Mental Patients Association (BC)

The Anti-Psychiatry Reading Room

MadPride (UK)

Lunatics Liberation Front (Vancouver)

Professional and Other Links

Centre for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (Dr. Peter Breggin)

What You Should Know About Psychiatry and Psychiatric Drugs

The Gerstein Crisis Centre (Toronto)

Radical Psychology Network

Successful Schizophrenia

Journal of Mind and Behaviour

AntiPsychiatry Coalition

(formerly) Knowledge Exchange Network


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