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  • ADA Case of the Week
    by Susan Stefan J.D.
  • ADA Case of the Week (continued)
    by Susan Stefan J.D.
  • ADA Case of the Week… {2}
  • Alaska Supreme Court Strikes Down Forced Psychiatric Drugging Procedures
    by Jim Gottstein
  • An Award With An Even Bigger Payoff
    by Robin Topping
    Newsday 2004
  • An Open Letter to Sally Satel from Michael Allen
    by Michael Allen
    2006
  • APA Convention Used to Promote Drug Company Invention of Mental Health Epidemiology Facts and “No Effort Required” Diagnosis and Treatment
    by Vicki Fox Smith
    MadNet 2002
  • Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker?
    by John Horgan
    The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011
  • Big Pharma Gone Wild
    by Martha Rosenberg
    AlterNet 2009
  • Bill 2050 – Psychologist prescription privileges – California
  • Bitter Pill: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Turned a Flawed and Dangerous Drug into a $16 Billion Bonanza
    by Ben Wallace-Wells
    Rolling Stone 2000
  • Bush Plans to Screen US Population for Mental Illness
  • Challenge to California’s CARE Act
  • Committee for Truth in Psychiatry
  • Confessions of a Non-Compliant Patient
    by Judi Chamberlin
    2010
  • Connecticut On Threshold Of Much-Needed Probate Court Reform
    by Rick Green
    Hartford Courant 2009
  • Conservatorship Standing On One Foot
  • Court Orders To Build New Jail In San Bruno
    The Recorder 1999
  • Court Says Probate Lawyers Can Be Held Liable If They Disregard Clients
    by Thomas B. Scheffey
    Connecticut Law Tribune 2012
  • Crazy Like Us: The Americanization of Mental Illness
    by Ethan Watters
    New York Times 2010
  • DIsability RIghts and the Death Penalty
  • Disabled children at Mass. school are tortured, not treated
    by Laurie Ahern
    Washington Post 2010
  • Doctors of Deception
    2009
  • Doe v. Stincer
    1999
  • Elderly Man’s Lawsuit Could Bring Probate Reform
    by Rick Green
    Hartford Courant 2011
  • Electroshock Testimony
    2001
  • Eli Lilly and the Case for a Corporate Death Penalty
    by Bruce E. Levine
    AlterNet 2009
  • Eric Rosenthal, Receives 2012 Public Service Award
    2012
  • Exit Joe Camel. Enter Joe Prozac.
  • Experimentation
    by Cliff Zucker Ruth Lowenkron
    1997
  • Federal Report Praising Electroshock Stirs Uproar
    by Erica Goode
    New York Times 1999
  • Feds found Pfizer too big to nail
    by Drew Griffin Andy Segal
    CNN 2010
  • Forced Treatment in Vermont
    The Independent 1998
  • Garrett Decision: The Court Usurps Congressional Power
    New York Times 2001
  • Gasque v. King
  • Highlights of Public Act 07-116 – Conservatorship Reform in Connecticut
    by Sally Zanger
  • History, Principles, and Definitions of Consumer-direction and Self-determination – Rae Unzicker
    by Rae E. Unzicker
    1999
  • How Do Psychiatrists Decide to Use Forced Electroshock?
    by Linda Andre
  • If It Pays For Force, It Isn’t Parity
    by Vicki Fox Wieselthier
    2004
  • It’s Our Story – Answers from America’s Disability Activists
  • Jim-Probert-LTE-NY-Times-_11-19-25
  • Judi Chamberlin, NYT Obituary
    by Dennis Hevesi
    New York Times 2010
  • Judi Chamberlin, Pioneer
    Washington Post 2010
  • Justin Dart: No Forced Treatment Ever!
  • Legal Links
  • Listening to Madness
    by Alissa Quart
    Newsweek 2009
  • Loren Mosher Resigns from APA
    by Loren R. Mosher M.D.
    1998
  • Maine Medication Law Challenged
    Bangor Daily News 2008
  • Making a Killing: Clinical trials have become marketing exercises for Big Pharma – and cash-strapped universities are helping make the sale.
    by Carl Elliott
    Mother Jones 2010
  • Massachusetts Uniform Probate Co
    by Robert D. Fleischner, Esq.
  • Mental Health Advocacy, From Then to Now
    by Rae Unzicker
  • Mentally Ill or Homeless: Vulnerable to Police Abuse
    by Amnesty International USA
    1999
  • Mindless and Deadly – Media Hype on Mental Illness and Violence
    by Phyllis Vine
    FAIR Extra! 2001
  • Mosher vs Goodwin
    by Loren R. Mosher M.D.
    Psychology Today 1999
  • NARPA Olmstead amicus brief
    1999
  • NARPA Opposes Coalition’s “5-Point Plan to Address Serious Mental Illness”
  • NARPA Rights Tenet Update (archives)
  • NARPA Statement on the Arizona Shooting — February 8, 2011
    by NARPA
    2011
  • NARPA-Bibliography
  • New Duties of Conservator Required by Public Act 07-116
  • New York Times on enactment of IOC law
    by Raymond Hernandez
    New York Times 1999
  • Newsday coverage of Paul Henri Thomas
    by Andrew Smith
    Newsday 2001
  • NY Times Editorial: Defining Disability Down
    by New York Times Editorial Board
    New York Times 1999
  • NYC Doctors, Nurses Charged in Death by Neglect Case
    by John Marzulli
    New York Daily News 2009
  • NYT: Court Rules Mental Patients May Reject Psychiatric Drugging
    by Katherine Bishop
    New York Times 1987
  • Olmstead and the ADA’s Integration Mandate
    1999
  • Oral Argument in Garrett case
    by Charles Lane
    Washington Post 2000
  • PA ADAPT – Olmstead
    1999
  • Parents Never Knew of Test Risks
    by Kathleen Kerr
    Newsday 1998
  • Parity-California-Network-Statement
  • Performance Standards for Attorneys
  • Playing Down the Risks of Zyprexa
    2008
  • Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
    by Duff Wilson
    New York Times 2009
  • PRNewswire: Death of Judi Chamberlin, Pioneer in Social Justice Movement, Casts Spotlight on Struggle for Rights of People With Psychiatric Disabilities
  • Probate Abuse Stretches Far Beyond Connecticut
    by Rick Green
    Hartford Courant 2010
  • Prozac Data Kept From Trial
    by Mitchell Zuckoff
    Boston Globe 2000
  • Prozac Revisited
    by Leah R. Garnett
    Boston Globe 2000
  • Prozac Surge Among Kids
    Los Angeles Times 1999
  • Psychiatric Drugging of Young Children promoted by NIMH and state government agencies
    2006
  • Psychiatric Survivors at Mental Health Conference Appeal for Justice!
    by Justin Dart
    1999
  • Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws: Examining Current Approaches to Suicide in Policy and Law
    by Susan Stefan
    2016
  • Research Volunteers Unwittingly at Risk
    by Rick Weiss
    Washington Post 1998
  • Rooker/Feldman Doctrine
  • Serotonin and Depression
    by David Healy
    British Medical Journal
  • Shock treatment: Ken Kesey hits back at critics of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’
    by Ken Kesey
    New York Times 2011
  • Should America’s school children be screened and labeled?
  • STATE ADULT GUARDIANSHIP LEGISLATION: DIRECTIONS OF REFORM — CONNECTICUT 2007
    by Commission on Law and Aging ABA
    2007
  • State Supreme Court Holds Lawyers, Conservators Accountable In Probate Cases
    by Rick Green
    Hartford Courant 2012
  • Statement in Opposition to Prescription Privileges for Psychologists
    by AAAPP
  • Suit Alleges Civil Rights Violations in NY ECT Case
    by Juli Lawrence
    2001
  • Surgeon General on Electroshock
    by Ronald Bassman, Ph.D.
    NARPA 1999
  • Take a Hike? That’s Easy for You to Say
    by David Bouchier
    New York Times 1999
  • Task Force Report: Outpatient Commitment & Alternatives (Connecticut)
    by Sheryl Breetz Raymond J. Gorman
    1997
  • Technology in Psychiatry: An Example of Artificial Intelligence, Lee Coleman, MD
  • Testimony Regarding the Results of the Research Study of the New York City Involuntary Outpatient Commitment Pilot Program
    by Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services
    1998
  • The Ballad of Kim Darrow
    by Laura Ziegler
    1996
  • The Downside of the Family-Organized Mental Illness Advocacy Movement
  • The Ex-Patients’ Movement: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going Judi Chamberlin
  • The FDA Wants to Declare Electroshock Machines Safe Without a Safety Investigation
    PsychRights
  • The FDA’s Regulation of ECT (Shock Treatment): A Beginner (or Refresher) Course
    by Committee for Truth in Psychiatry
  • The Highlander Statement of Concern and Call to Action
  • The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatry
    2009
  • The Regulation of the Use of Seclusion and Restraints in Mental Disability Law
    by Michael L. Perlin
  • The Shocking Truth – Part IV
    by Liz Spikol
    Philadelphia Weekly
  • To be a mental patient …
    by Rae Unzicker
    1984
  • Transformation
    by Kathryn Cohan and Sylvia Caras
    1997
  • Treatment at Westborough State Hospital
    by Jonathan Cates
  • Treatment of Children with Mental Disorders
  • UN Calls Shock Treatment at Mass. School ‘Torture’
    by KATIE HINMAN and KIMBERLY BROWN
    2010
  • UN Forced Psychiatric Treatment Is Torture
    2009
  • Update on Louisiana Prescription Privileges Law
    by Helen L. Mitternight
    2005
  • Vermont S.103 Text
    Vermont Senate Journal 1998
  • Victory! Joan T. is Free of ECT.!
    MindFreedom 2004
  • When Depression Turns Deadly
    by Anne McIlroy
    The Globe and Mail 2000
  • When Women Pursue Justice – ArtMakers-NYC
    2005
  • Wisconsin: Landmark Reform
    by Erica Wood, ABA Commission on Law and Aging
    2006
  • Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications
    by Peter R. Breggin M.D. & David Cohen Ph.D.