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Hearing Voices Network. Hearing Voices Networks, closely related to the Hearing Voices Movement, are peer -focused national organizations for people who hear voices (commonly referred to as auditory hallucinations) and supporting family members, activists and mental health practitioners. Members may or may not have a psychiatric diagnosis.
Judi Chamberlin was born Judith Rosenberg in Brooklyn in 1944. She was the only daughter of Harold and Shirley Jaffe Rosenberg. The family later changed their name to Ross. Her father was a factory worker when she was a child [4] and later worked as an executive in the advertising industry.
Patricia E. Deegan is an American disability-rights advocate, psychologist and researcher. She has been described as a "national spokesperson for the mental health consumer/survivor movement in the United States." [1] Deegan is known as an advocate of the mental health recovery movement (a cofounder of the National Empowerment Center) [2] and ...
The NEC staff is Oryx Cohen, Kimberly Ewing, Shira Collings, and Felicity Krueger. [12]The deceased advocate Judi Chamberlin was an NEC staff person. [13] [14] Chamberlin was diagnosed with depression at the age of 21 but considered herself recovered, which she attributed to having been a non-compliant patient.
The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (formerly known as National Coalition for Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations) campaigns in the United States to ensure that consumer/survivors have a major voice in the development and implementation of health care, mental health, and social policies at the state and national levels ...
Leonard Roy Frank (July 15, 1932 – January 15, 2015 [1]) was an American human rights activist, psychiatric survivor, editor, writer, aphorist, and lecturer. Frank lived in San Francisco from 1959 until his death, where he managed an art gallery before he began collecting quotations.
Linda Andre (1959 – 2023) was an American psychiatric survivor activist and writer, living in New York City, who was the director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (CTIP), an organization founded by Marilyn Rice in 1984 to encourage the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) machines.
Loren Mosher. Loren Richard Mosher (September 3, 1933, Monterey, California – July 10, 2004, Berlin) [1][2] was an American psychiatrist, [2][3]: 21 clinical professor of psychiatry, [1][4][5] expert on schizophrenia [4][5] and the chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia in the National Institute of Mental Health (1968–1980). [1][2 ...