www.crazydiamond.org.uk crazydiamond training and consultancy UK and internationally work to promote recovery approaches to emotional wellbeing
www.hope4recovery.co.uk A visually uplifting website of hopefulness and joy from Lorraine Nicholson who shares her journey of recovery through art and poetry
www.krysan.org. A beautiful, creative website designed by Marian Moore. Marian is a teacher. Shes one of those people who knew right from early childhood what her destiny would be. And, shes one of those people who, throughout their lives, have left no stone unturned in their pursuit of excellence. Experience has taught Marian that its not money or prestige or fame or power, but happiness that is the ultimate currency. Her interest in happiness is the result of a deeply personal quest to understand not only the science but also the strategies behind a whole new movement in Psychology, a movement which is called Positive Psychology or the Science of Happiness.
www.moshersoteria.com For over a decade Loren R Mosher, MD, held a central position in American psychiatric research. He was the first Chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health, 1969-1980. He founded the Schizophrenia Bulletin and for ten years he was its Editor-in-Chief. He led the Soteria Project.
The Soteria research demonstrated that there is a better way: A better way to treat schizophrenia and other psychoses that destroy the lives of so many young people. The Soteria research showed that the prevalent excessive destructive psychiatric drugging of all these young people is a huge and tragic mistake. The psychiatric establishment was offended. Prestige and Money won. Truth and Love lost.
The success! of Soteria was the reason that Dr Mosher was forced to leave his key position in American psychiatry.
www.theicarusproject.net The Icarus Project envisions a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of 'mental illness' rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework.
We are a network of people living with and/or affected by experiences that are commonly diagnosed and labeled as psychiatric conditions. We believe these experiences are mad gifts needing cultivation and care, rather than diseases or disorders. By joining together as individuals and as a community, the intertwined threads of madness, creativity, and collaboration can inspire hope and transformation in an oppressive and damaged world. Participation in The Icarus Project helps us overcome alienation and tap into the true potential that lies between brilliance and madness.
www.power2u.org The mission of the National Empowerment Center Inc. is to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been labeled with mental illness. We carry that message with authority because we are a consumer/survivor/expatient-run organization and each of us is living a personal journey of recovery and empowerment.
www.mindfreedomireland.com Mindfreedom Ireland works to win human rights and alternatives for people labelled with psychiatric disabilities and their vision of a non -violent revolution in mental health care
www.critpsynet.freeuk.com Building on the work of the Critical Psychiatry Network (CPN) in Britain and motivated by a concern about the global mental health movements approach of globalising Western models of psychiatry, the ICPN wishes to consider a greater variety of ways of thinking about psychic difference and suffering.
www.breggin.com Peter R. Breggin, MD, has been called "the conscience of psychiatry" for his efforts to reform the mental health field, including his promotion of caring psychotherapeutic approaches and his opposition to the escalating overuse of psychiatric medications, the oppressive diagnosing and drugging of children, electroshock, lobotomy, involuntary treatment, and false biological theories.
www.empathictherapy.org Empathic therapies offer a caring, understanding and empowering attitude toward the individuals emotional struggles, aspirations and personal growth. They promote the individuals inherent human rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They respect the autonomy, personal responsibility and freedom of the person. They encourage the individual to grow in self-appreciation as well as in the ability to respect, love and empathize with others.
www.bipolarblast.wordpress.com This post has multiple links and resources to information on psychiatric drug withdrawal and many basic ideas about how to avoid psychiatry and use natural and healthful alternatives.
www.spiritualrecoveries.blogspot.com I am an individual who has undergone a transformative experience that in this culture and setting would be identified as psychosis or schizophrenic. Other cultures and settings have other names for the same experience
www.madinamerica.com Informative resource by Dr Robert Whittaker. ROBERT WHITAKER is the author of three previous books: Mad in America (named one of the best science books of 2002 by Discover magazine and one of the best history books of 2002 by the ALA), The Mapmaker's Wife (a Booksense pick; named one of the best biographies of 2004 by the ALA), and On the Laps of Gods (which won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize for a work in progress). He worked as a newspaper reporter for eight years and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
www.renew-ireland.com We believe that when people become overwhelmed in a period of crisis that they need to be supported by people of experience in three areas simultaneously - mind, body and soul.
