[D66] Psychiatric Torture

[René Oudeweg]

http://chrusp.org/home/psychiatric_torture



    Psychiatric Torture


        In solidarity with all victims, survivors and resisters

June 26 is the International Day in Solidarity with Victims of Torture.  

In May 2013, I asked survivors, resisters and allies (I consider that
all who are alive are survivors, we remember the victims who did not
survive psychiatric torture) to join me on June 26 in writing blogs and
statements or conducting other activities in solidarity with all
victims, survivors and resisters of psychiatric torture.  Here is one of
the notices posted by a colleague.  

    Tina Minkowitz has proposed that we use June 26 as a day to write
    blogs and statements on psychiatric torture. This can be done as a
    response to or reflection on the UN rapporteur on torture's
    recommendations that forced psychiatric treatment of all kind be
    banned, or however you might think to raise awareness on the topic.
    "What is the value of naming nonconsensual interventions as
    torture," Tina asks, "and what are the implications of doing so?"

The Special Rapporteur on Torture in March 2013 called for an absolute
ban on nonconsensual psychiatric interventions, including restraint,
solitary confinement, and nonconsensual administration of electroshock,
psychosurgery and mind-altering drugs such as neuroleptics.  He also
urged repeal of legal provisions authorizing confinement and compulsory
treatment in mental health settings, and said that detention on mental
health grounds is unjustified.  See the statement
<https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AG/chrusp-biz/downloads/277461/torture_english.pdf>
of the Special Rapporteur, his report
<https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AG/chrusp-biz/downloads/277631/A.HRC.22.53_English.pdf>,
and the response
<https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AG/chrusp-biz/downloads/281253/Statement_by_the_World_Network_of_Users_and_Survivors_of_Psychiatry_under_Item_3final.pdf>
by the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, along with a
call to action
<https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AG/chrusp-biz/downloads/281251/A_Time_to_Act.pdf>
by CHRUSP.  Note that the statement revises certain inconsistent
positions that were left in the report.

Here are the responses.  Remember to breathe when reading these
accounts, especially the personal stories.

Tina Minkowitz, "We Name It as Torture"
<http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/06/we-name-it-torture/>

Faith Rhyne, "Trigger Warning: Why Is It So Hard to Think About
Torture?"
<http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/06/why-is-it-so-hard-to-think-about-torture/>

Aubrey Ellen Shomo, "Remembering a Restraint"
<http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/06/remembering-a-restraint/>

Bhargavi Davar, "Commemorating Erwadi Victims of Torture"
<https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AG/chrusp-biz/downloads/282603/For_torture_blog_by_Bhargavi_June_2013.docx>

Naomi Pinson, "Ark of Resistance, Ark of Healing"
<https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AG/chrusp-biz/downloads/282604/Ark_of_Healing_I_Autosaved_.docx>
and

"Why Isn't the Expression 'Taught Helplessness'?Thoughts on Learned
Helplessness"
<https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AG/chrusp-biz/downloads/282605/Thoughts_on_learned_helplessness3.docx>

Sarbani Mukherjee, "Nonconsensual Medical Intervention in Immigration
Detention in the United States"
<https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AG/chrusp-biz/downloads/282606/Healthcare_in_Imm_Det_Article_JMLS_Human_Rights_Project.docx>

Frank Blankenship (Lunatic Fringe blog), "Support for Victims of
Psychiatric Torture"
<http://lunatickfringe.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/support-victims-of-psychiatric-torture/>

Gerald D. Otis, "Synopsis of the Case of 'Bill Tollufson'"
<https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AG/chrusp-biz/downloads/282649/Synopsis3_Tollufson.pdf>

Ojore Lutalo, "New Jersey State Prison: Special Needs Unit: Resisting
the Drug Therapy Chair"
<https://dk-media.s3.amazonaws.com/AA/AG/chrusp-biz/downloads/282721/20100709181942.pdf>

"MindFreedom Ireland Opposes Forced Detention"
<http://www.mindfreedomireland.com/index.php/no-force-campaign/detainment>

Sarah Harper (Pissed Off Woman blog), "In Solidarity with Victims of
Torture: A Survivor's Short Response"
<http://pissedoffwoman.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/in-solidarity-with-victims-of-torture-a-survivors-short-response/>

Sara Arenson, "On the International Day in Solidarity with Victims of
Torture"
<https://www.facebook.com/notes/sara-arenson/on-the-international-day-in-solidarity-with-victims-of-torture/10151688036781049>
 
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