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Friends and Families of Psychiatric Survivors of Wisconsin

Goals

These are our long-term goals.

  • To oppose the use of force in psychiatry.
  • To speak out against the injustice and oppression of the biomedical or "brain disease" model.
  • To expose the biomedical or "brain disease" model as the hoax that it is.
  • To combat "mentalism" (bigotry or discrimination regarding those whose speech, thoughts, conversation or behavior may seem peculiar) in society.
  • To repeal Chapter 51, Wisconsin's forced "treatment" (i.e., drugging) law.
  • To fight for the human and civil rights of those who are detained under Chapter 51.
  • To obtain proper accommodation and other rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act for those who have been labeled with a psychiatric diagnosis.
  • To develop a system based on attraction rather than coercion.
  • To let the honest, hard-working people of Wisconsin know that their tax dollars fund a totalitarian regime called a mental "health" system.
  • To reclaim public space for the people. "Mental health" (i.e., forced drugging) acts are a convenient excuse to rid the streets of anyone who might scare tourists away.
  • To reveal the influence of drug company money on the enactment of forced drugging laws.
  • To reveal the continued influence of drug company money on the day-to-day operation of our public mental "health" system.
  • To start a "courtwatch" program, with volunteers who will accompany, and act as personal assistant to, the defendant, in the hearing in an action brought under Chapter 51.
  • To start a Psychiatric Abuse Intervention Center, modeled after the Domestic Abuse Intervention Center. It would be a safe place for people to go who were being abused, assaulted, frightened, threatened or tortured by the mental "health" system.
  • To help start up an alternative system based on the Personal Assistance in Community Existence (PACE) model of the National Empowerment Center.
  • To bring effective, competent legal representation to those who are under Chapter 51.20 involuntary commitment for the harm perpetuated by the mental "health" system while they're on commitment, not just for the commitment hearing.


But,in the meantime . . .