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ICI is providing these resources to help facilitate critical education and discussion about a variety of topics and issues related to all things “mental health”. Inclusion in this list does not necessarily imply endorsement by ICI. Some of these resources are closely aligned with our mission, vision, and values. Others may use terms or ideas, promote values or beliefs, or engage in activities that are not fully in sync with what we believe in, strive towards, or envision as an organization; however, we’ve included them here because, in our estimation, they still contribute constructively to some aspects of our overall mission.

Elizabeth Kenny TEDMED Talk

Elizabeth Kenny TEDMED Talk

"Actor and playwright Elizabeth Kenny was a healthy thirty-two year-old woman who went to the doctor for a common ailment. A year and a half later, she was in a locked level 5 psych ward."

Resource link

https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=299419

Resource category

Personal Stories & Experiences

Resource type

Video
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Emerging Proud

"#Emerging Proud is ultimately a campaign about providing hope; that breaking down does not mean we are broken; it means that we can be amidst a difficult journey to ‘breakthrough’."

Resource link

https://emergingproud.com

Resource category

Beyond "Mental Illness" & "Mental Health"

Resource type

Website
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Everything Matters― Beyond Meds

Monica Cassani's resource-rich website "documents and shares many natural methods of self-care for finding and sustaining health in body, mind and spirit" and "deals with wider issues in the socio/political and spiritual realms as they pertain to mental health and human rights issues surrounding psychiatry."

Resource link

https://beyondmeds.com/

Resource category

Non-Drug Options & Approaches

Resource type

Website
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From the Files of Leonard Roy Frank

An online library of articles, interviews, videos, and more from Leonard Roy Frank (1932-2015), prolific writer and influential ex-patient activist who spent decades speaking out against the conventional mental health system, and particularly, electroshock. 

Resource link

http://psychiatrized.org/LeonardRoyFrank/FromTheFilesOfLeonardRoyFrank.htm

Resource category

Rights & Law
Beyond "Mental Illness" & "Mental Health"

Resource type

Website
Healing Homes

Healing Homes

"Healing Homes, a feature-length documentary film directed by Daniel Mackler, chronicles the work of the Family Care Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden — a program which, in this era of multi-drug cocktails and psychiatric diagnoses-for-life, helps people recover from psychosis without medication."

Resource link

http://wildtruth.net/films-english/healinghomes/

Resource category

Non-Drug Options & Approaches

Resource type

Video
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Hearing Voices Network

Hearing Voices Network offers information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them.

Resource link

https://www.hearing-voices.org

Resource category

Beyond "Mental Illness" & "Mental Health"

Resource type

Organization/Initiative
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Hearing Voices Network- USA

"The Hearing Voices Network (HVN) USA is one of over 20 nationally-based networks around the world joined by shared goals and values, incorporating a fundamental belief that there are many ways to understand the experience of hearing voices and other unusual or extreme experiences."

Resource link

http://www.hearingvoicesusa.org

Resource category

Beyond "Mental Illness" & "Mental Health"

Resource type

Organization/Initiative
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Institute for Safe Medication Practices

A non-profit organization that strives to educate the healthcare community and consumers about safe medication practices. Includes a mix of resources for free and at a cost.

Resource link

http://www.ismp.org/default.asp

Resource category

Science & Research

Resource type

Website
International Spiritual Emergence Network

International Spiritual Emergence Network

"At ISEN we are passionate about providing a collaborative platform that connects networks around the world that offer compassionate support to those who understand their experiences to be a spiritual crisis rather than a mental illness, raising awareness of a non-pathological integral framework within the mental health field."

Resource link

http://www.spiritualemergencenetwork.org/

Resource category

Beyond "Mental Illness" & "Mental Health"

Resource type

Organization/Initiative
Intervoice logo

Intervoice- The International Hearing Voices Network

"Intervoice (International Hearing Voices Projects) is a charity, registered in the UK, that aims to support the International Hearing Voices Movement by connecting people, sharing ideas, distributing information, highlighting innovative initiatives, encouraging high quality respectful research and promoting its values across the world."

Resource link

http://www.intervoiceonline.org

Resource category

Beyond "Mental Illness" & "Mental Health"

Resource type

Organization/Initiative
Jaqui Dillon Powys Conference

Jaqui Dillon Powys Conference 9/19/13

"Dr Jacqui Dillon is a respected activist, writer and speaker, and has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, abuse, psychosis, dissociation and healing."

Resource link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHzHliy5yeQ

Resource category

Personal Stories & Experiences
Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

Resource type

Video
Joanna Moncrieff

Joanna Moncrieff-- Books, Papers, and Blogs

The website of Joanna Moncrieff, MD, where you'll find critical information about psychiatric drugs via her books, journal articles, blogs, and interviews.

Resource link

https://joannamoncrieff.com

Resource category

Mutual Support & Advocacy

Resource type

Website
Kelly Brogan MD

Kelly Brogan MD

Kelly Brogan, MD, is a holistic women's health psychiatrist who "practices functional medicine which endeavors to identify individual, root cause contributors to current symptoms with the goal of enhancing and supporting our bodies’ own infinitely complex mechanisms and their native drive toward homeostasis." 

Resource link

http://kellybroganmd.com

Resource category

Non-Drug Options & Approaches

Resource type

Website
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Law Project for Psychiatric Rights

Founded by lawyer and ex-psychiatric patient James Gottstein, the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) is a public interest law firm with a mission "to mount a  strategic litigation campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock in the United States". PsychRights has won a number of precedent-setting cases, and the website provides many legal resources.

Resource link

http://psychrights.org

Resource category

Rights & Law

Resource type

Organization/Initiative
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Live & Learn, Inc.

Live & Learn, Inc. is a social enterprise that provides research, technical assistance, and knowledge translation services to behavioral health systems.

Resource link

http://www.livelearninc.net

Resource category

Science & Research

Resource type

Organization/Initiative
Living with Voices: 50 stories of recovery

Living with Voices: 50 stories of recovery

"This book is a groundbreaking development in modern mental health because it recognises the importance of the first hand experience and argues that hearing voices is not a sign of madness but a reaction to serious problems in life. Must-read book for all concerned with mental health issues."

Resource link

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7156189-living-with-voices

Resource category

Personal Stories & Experiences

Resource type

Book
Mad in America

Mad in America

Founded by award-winning medical journalist and author Robert Whitaker, Mad in America is a website resource with a mission "to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care". It hosts a blogging community of critical researchers, practitioners, thinkers and activists, and monitors news stories and developments in scientific research.

Resource link

https://www.madinamerica.com/

Resource category

Mutual Support & Advocacy

Resource type

Website
Mad Matters

Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies

Edited by Brenda A. LeFrançois, Robert Menzies, Geoffrey Reaume. "With contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, as well as activists and psychiatric survivors, [this book] presents diverse critical voices that convey the lived experiences of the psychiatrized and challenges dominant understandings of "mental illness.""

Resource link

https://www.canadianscholars.ca/books/mad-matters

Resource category

Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

Resource type

Book
Madness Radio

Madness Radio

"An hour-long interview format, Madness Radio focuses on personal experiences of ‘madness’ and extreme states of consciousness from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments. Madness Radio also features authors, advocates, and researchers on madness-related topics, including civil rights, science, policy reform, holistic health, history, and art."

Resource link

http://www.madnessradio.net

Resource category

Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

Resource type

Radio/Podcast
Mad Science

Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

Written by Stuart A. Kirk, Tomi Gomory, and David Cohen, this book "provides an engaging and readable scientific and social critique of current mental health practices. The authors are scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs."

Resource link

https://www.routledge.com/Mad-Science-Psychiatric-Coercion-Diagnosis-and-Drugs/…

Resource category

Rethinking, Reforming, Critiquing

Resource type

Book

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