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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.