A colleague and friend Tina Minkowitz* works towards the rights of survivors of psychiatric abuse, and runs a course for activists and allies on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities from a Survivor of Psychiatry Perspective. Her article on disability and incarceration is worth a read, even if you don’t have time…
Tina Minkowitz is a lawyer in the USA, who was involved in developing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Tina is also a survivor of psyiatric abuse, and a human rights lawyer, and interested in workign towards reparations for psychiatric violence, for example, for psychiatric institutionalization and abuses such as chemical…
The 15th Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP CRPD) was held in New York at UN headquarters on 14th-16th June. My blog today highlights an excellent COSP15 Side Event on Remedy and Reparation for Institutionalization, moderated by colleague and friend Tina Minkowitz, who is President of…
I’m thrilled to share the release of an important book today, written by a friend and colleague, Tina Minkowitz. It is is now available to be ordered at this website: https://www.reimaginingcrisissupport.org It is being made available at cost, so print copies are low priced (though international shipping charges are high and that makes it more expensive…
The following article which is about a 5 year research project is truly terrifying, and only confirms my committment towards the need to Rethink Dementia and ban BPSD. It is thanks to Tina Minkowitz who is an attorney and psychiatric survivor in New York, and founded the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, that…
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