MindFreedom International is a nonprofit organization that unites 100 sponsor and affiliate grassroots groups with thousands of individual members to win human rights and alternatives for people labeled with psychiatric disabilities. * MindFreedom Goals: - Win human rights campaigns in mental health. - Challenge abuse by the psychiatric drug industry. - Support the self-determination of psychiatric survivors and mental health consumers. - Promote safe, humane and effective options in mental health. * MindFreedom Mission Statement: "In a spirit of mutual cooperation, MindFreedom leads a nonviolent revolution of freedom, equality, truth and human rights that unites people affected by the mental health system with movements for justice everywhere." * Who Is MindFreedom? MindFreedom is one of the very few totally independent groups in the mental health field with no funding from or control by governments, drug companies, religions, corporations, or the mental health system. MindFreedom International is a nonprofit under IRS 501(c)(3) that is the only group of its kind accredited by the United Nations as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with Consultative Roster Status. MindFreedom is where the power of mutual support combines with the power of human rights activism. MindFreedom International is where democracy is finally getting hands on with the mental health system. The majority of MindFreedom's members are people who have experienced human rights violations in the mental health system, or psychiatric survivors (read a few member stories here). However, everyone who supports human rights is invited and encouraged to join and become active leaders. Mental health professionals and workers, advocates and attorneys, family members and the general public are all active as equal members and leaders in the MindFreedom International family. Our sponsor and affiliate groups are among the key leading organizations to change the mental health system. Adbusters Magazine (May/June 2002) called MindFreedom the "epicenter of the mad movement," and the head of the World Health Organization's mental health department, Dr. Bendetto Saraceno, has issued a statement about MindFreedom International, calling MFI's work "remarkable... fair... transparent."
