Guest guest Posted August 18, 2004 Report Share Posted August 18, 2004 http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/bush_b.shtml SCI News (return to Hot News | return to Brief Alerts) The Bush Administration is directly attacking the social change movement led by psychiatric survivors and mental health consumers: Appointing extremist psychiatrist Sally Satel has his latest mental health advisor... Announcing " termination " of all national technical assistance centers... Selecting only one person with personal experience in the mental health system to his President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. In one of the last political acts of his life, Justin Dart, the late disability activist, helped MindFreedom launch the People's True Freedom Commission to defend our movement with nonviolent resistance! Read new and past updates here: * Bush Split Personality on Mental Health: Bush Mental Health Advisor * MindFreedom Director David Oaks gives keynote address to Alternatives 2002 Conference; seconds Justin Dart's call for nonviolent revolution in the mental health system, including civil disobedience. * Sally Satel On C-SPAN Calls For Defunding Consumer/Survivor Movement * 9/11/2002 - A Former Drug Executive is the Bush Official In Charge of Immediate Terminatation of Funding to Mental Health Consumer/Psychiatric Survivor Technical Assistance * 9/11/2002 - BUSH SURPRISES FEDERALLY-FUNDED " TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTERS " FOR MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMERS AND PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVORS, REFUSES TO RELEASE MONEY ALREADY ALLOCATED AND APPROVED. NEC, CONTAC, NMHCSHC MAY CLOSE DOORS IN WEEKS. * 9/11/2002 - A HIDDEN EFFECT OF 9/11 ONE YEAR LATER: MANY AMERICANS SEEK MENTAL HEALTH CARE. BUT PRESIDENT BUSH'S NEWEST MENTAL HEALTH ADVISOR PROMOTES MORE FORCED PSYCHIATRY, AND MOCKS CONSUMER INPUT. EASY FREE ACTION YOU CAN TAKE: REGISTER OPINION ON NEW WHITE HOUSE MENTAL HEALTH WEB SITE! August 2002 update: Charlie Curie, head of the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, personally confirmed to MindFreedom that President Bush has gone through with his appointment of extremist psychiatrist Sally Satel to a key federal mental health advisory position. Sally Satel is now on the National Advisory Council for the U.S. Center for Mental Health Services, which - for example - approves all federal mental health services grants. MINDFREEDOM EXCLUSIVE - March 29, 2002 Bush vs. Psychiatric Survivors/Mental Health Consumers? WASHINGTON, D.C.: President George W. Bush is poised to appoint extremist psychiatrist Sally Satel to the advisory board of the USA Center for Mental Health Services, according to several reliable sources. Satel is an American Enterprise Institute psychiatrist whose own web site, book, interviews and speeches directly attack the very idea of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors organizing for self-determination and their human rights. Dr. Satel's plan? She promotes the involuntary psychiatric drugging of thousands of more Americans, including Americans living out in the community in their own homes. The reports of Satel's pending appointment comes on the heels of Bush's recently-proposed budget that calls for 100 percent " termination " of mental health consumer technical assistance centers. TAKE ACTION - How to stop Satel's appointment! NEWS: You can download a two-page leaflet about Sally Satel that has lots of quotes in her own words about the psychiatric survivors movement, and which Bush officials you can contact to say " no " to her appointment. 6/19/2002 - President Bush's attack against all disability and mental health groups, but this time we are not alone! President's New Freedom Commission begins. Satel appointment to an advisory committee confirmed. People's True Freedom Commission is launched! 6/17/2002 - THREE NEWS UPDATES ABOUT PEOPLE'S TRUE FREEDOM COMMISSION 6/15/2002 - When Bush's new " Freedom Commission on Mental Health " meets for the first time Tuesday, they will face some competition from a " People's True Freedom Commission. " You are invited to be a Commissioner! 6/6/2002 - Parity news release: Support Coalition International news release alerting media that Bush parity plan would fund more coercion and forced psychiatry. 6/5/2002 - Speak out at a Bush administration advisory subcommittee, June 17 & 18 in Maryland; Psychiatric survivors demand of federal government: " Stop Sally Satel! Stop Bush Administration attacks on mental health consumers/psychiatric survivors! " 6/4/2002 - " If it isn't voluntary, it isn't parity! " When NAMI rallies on June 6 for mental health parity, the other side of the story will be there, too. Support Coalition International members will hand out news release at rally opposing any parity funds going to force, coercion & fraud. 5/28/2002 - Boston Globe Article: How Drug Company Money Appears To Control APA 2002 Meeting; Activist Campaign To Prevent Bush From Appointing Satel; APA President-Elect Agrees With Satel That Doctors Should Be In Control Of Treatment 5/23/2002 - THREE LINKS BETWEEN USA VICE PRESIDENT'S WIFE AND CONTROVERSIAL PSYCHIATRIST SALLY SATEL 5/15/2002 - STOP THE APPOINTMENT OF EXTREMIST PSYCHIATRIST SALLY SATEL! QUIZ A BUSH ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL IN A WEB-BASED LIVE CHAT MAY 23. ACTION: HOW YOU CAN POST QUESTIONS TO CHARLES G. CURIE NOW, DURING THE WEB CHAT, AND AFTERWARDS 5/8/2002 - FAX YOUR LETTER *NOW* TO STOP SALLY SATEL! YOUR LAST CHANCE TO STOP NOMINATION OF ANTI-FREEDOM PSYCHIATRIST TO KEY USA FEDERAL MENTAL HEALTH ADVISORY POSITION Who is psychiatrist Sally Satel? In her own words... For quoted excerpts from an interview with Sally Satel by Brian Lamb, in which she talks about her opposition to the mental health consumer and psychiatric survivors human rights movement in her own words, For a few excerpts from Sally Satel's book, " Politically Correct M.D. " -- in which she denounces mental health consumerism, psychiatric survivor activists, the Alternatives Conference, SCI Director David Oaks, Bernie Arons, and lots of others who disagree with her opinion -- Here are more than 25 examples of errors and distortions in the chapter about the psychiatric survivor/mental health consumer movement in Sally Satel's book " PC/MD. " Physician Ivan Oransky provides a big-picture criticism of Sally Satel's book, " PC/MD, " here. NEWS UPDATES: Bush Administration 2002 budget proposes 100 percent " termination " of mental health consumer/psychiatric survivor " technical assistance centers. " Immediate 100 percent funding " termination " of mental health consumer technical assistance is still threatened. A hoped-for " reprieve " was quickly revoked. Coincidence? Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey is also targeting federal funding of mental health consumer/psychiatric survivor projects, in an article in the April 2002 _Washington Monthly_. (Note: Dozens of groups united on May 2, 2002 to protest psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, who has called for more forced psychiatric drugging and for termination of federal funding for mental health consumer/psychiatric survivor groups advocating for self-determination. For information regarding this event, ) About Us | Advertising | Site FAQ | Privacy Policy © Copyright 2003 Support Coalition International Web site questions? E-mail the Webmaster. 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