Activism and Psychology online
1. The Icarus Project
http://www.theicarusproject.net/
A radical site created by and for people with Bi-Polar.
2. Complex PTSD information- Pete Walker
www.pete-walker.com
Pete Walker is a “general practitioner” who specializes in codependency, and in helping adults recovering from growing up in dysfunctional families, especially those whose repeated exposure to abuse and/or neglect left them with symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
3. The Radical Psychology Network
http://www.radpsynet.org/
The Radical Psychology Network seeks like-minded psychologists and others to help create a society better able to meet human needs and bring about change to the status quo of psychology. We challenge social justice.
Moreover, psychology itself has too often oppressed people rather than liberated them.
4. Adbusters Mad Pride Tour.
http://www.adbusters.org/metas/psycho/prozacspotlight/madpridetour/
An multimedia introduction to the antipsychiatry movement.
5. The Institute for Psychohistory
140 Riverside Drive
New York, NY
tel/fax: (212)799-2294
email: psychhst@tiac.net
www.psychohistory.com
6. Feelings Inventory
(words we use when we want to express a combination of emotional states and physical sensations. This list is neither exhaustive nor definitive. It is meant as a starting place to support anyone who wishes to engage in a process of deepening self-discovery and to facilitate greater understanding and connection between people.)
http://www.cnvc.org/en/what-nvc/feelings-list/feelings-inventory
7. MindFreedom International : Mental Health Human Rights
http://www.mindfreedom.org/
MFI is is an independent nonprofit coalition defending human rights and promoting humane alternatives for mental and emotional well being. While the majority of MFI members have personally experienced mental health system abuse, membership is open to all who support these goals.
8. Successful Schizophrenia
http://www.successfulschizophrenia.org
“Our mission is to help psychiatry (for its own good) free itself
from the delusions that keep it from
being an effective medical speciality
and to provide proof that thousands of people are right
when they say they are NOT mentally ill”
9. African American Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Association
http://www.aaptsdassn.com/
The mission of the African American Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Association is multiple, and includes seeking materials that are dedicated
to the discovery of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its many
maladies.
10. crooked Beauty: a film
http://www.kenpaulrosenthal.com/crooked/index.html
11. ~STIR-CRAZY
http://www.stir-crazy.org
A Mental Health Zine
To be published April 1st, 2007.
Submission deadline is March 15th, 2007.
Edited by Christin Light, a co-facilitator of the Minneapolis Icarus Project
sealux@gmail.com
http://http-server.carleton.ca/~rthibode/activism.html
Children:
12. Essays based on the work of Alice Miller
http://thesacredmoment.blogspot.com/2006/02/essays-based-on-work-of-alice-miller.html
13. Norman’s Ourchildhood Forum :
groups.google.com/group/normans-ourchildhood-forum?hl=en
14. Attachment Parenting International
http://www.attachmentparenting.org/
Educating and supporting parents to raise loving, empathic children in order to strengthen families and prevent violence
15. Andrew Vachss
http://www.vachss.com/
is a writer, and an attorney -who represents children and youth exclusively, with 30 years in child protective work. He has been a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a social services caseworker, and a labor organizer. He also directed a maximum security prison for “aggressive-violent” youth.
16. The Natural Child Project
http://www.naturalchild.org/
17. Project No Spank
www.nospank.net
