Choose from massage, acupuncture, cranial sacral,
reiki, herbal and ayurvedic medicine and simultaneously be supporting a free, poor people's radical
wellness clinic forming in Pittsburg!

Gail Hornstein talks about her new book
Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness

next Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 6.30pm at the
Holyoke Public Library Community Room, Holyoke, MA

Free and Open to the Public, all welcome

Parking  behind library on Chestnut Street
Use entrance from Parking Lot & elevator to 2nd floor
For information: 413-532-2081

Listen to radio interviews with Gail here.

Every Tuesday now, 4:30 to 6 PM at the Recovery Learning Center, 187 High St., Suite 303, Holyoke MA

 

Hearing Voices groups are popular and fairly widespread in Europe, especially England. Hearing Voices groups do not pathologize the experience of hearing voices or experiencing other altered states, instead they ask the voice hearer: What do the voices mean to you? Join us to get support from others with similar experiences! Co-sponsored by the Center for Human Development, RLC and the Freedom Center.

Congratulations Gail!

 

Agnes’s Jacket
A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness
Gail A. Hornstein

 

Reading and Book Signing
Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley, MA
March 26 • Thursday • 7 pm

Today, in a vibrant underground network of “psychiatric survivor groups” all over the world, patients work together to unravel the mysteries of madness and help one another recover. Optimistic, courageous, and surprising, Agnes’s Jacket (on sale starting March 17; $25.95; Hardcover) takes us from a code-cracking bunker during World War II to the church basements and treatment centers where a whole new way of understanding the mind has begun to take form.

 

“Agnes’s Jacket takes readers on a mesmerizing journey ...  Every page is animated by    Hornstein’s curiosity, her candor, and her evident empathy for those who have bravely welcomed her into their lives.”
Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America

 

Free and open to the public.  Call (413) 534-7307 to reserve a space.   If you can’t attend, a signed book can be reserved for you.

 

Freedom Center brings you FREE Auricular Acupuncture Clinic

Every MONDAY 430 pm -6pm Quaker Space, 43 Center St. left side entrance up stairs second floor downtown Northampton, MA. , contact lee(at)freedom-center.org

Map to Northampton clinic

Check out the Gazette article about our acupuncture clinic.

Download the general acupuncture information brochure about the clinics.

 

 

 

We have free weekly yoga classes in downtown Northampton!

The class meets every monday 7:15 until 8:30pm, 32 Masonic Street back door, by the Woodstar Cafe. People arrive and settle in at 7:00, and there is time for questions and individual help before the class formally gets started at 7:15. Second class meets Thursdays ay 3:30 at Forbes library, West Street. email lee(at)freedom-center.org for info.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing group The  writing group is 2-3 on Wednesdays. At Windhorse Associates: 211 North Street, in Northampton(Market St turns into North St.)

 

Group limit is 10, so it is first come first serve. If you email lee@freedom-center.org

This group is sponsored by Freedom Center, the RLC, and Windhorse.

Please feel free to bring some writing to work on and share-specifically memoir, non fiction and poetry. But bring anything you want to share, even if it is in another category.

Freedom Center organizer Caty Simon is attending the Community Activation Network's Community Power Kickoff to represent us and would like other Freedom Center members & people interested in the mad movement to join her. The event is on DATE CHANGE March 28th at Hampshire College. 12-6PM--you'll be directed by signs as soon as you get there showing you specifically where to go.

Here's a quick summary of the event.

From SpeakOuts to film series to protests and public lectures, take a look at an archive of our past Freedom Center events from an earlier version of our website. These are older events. For more recent past events, check our Past Events page here.

Freedom Center is organizing a spring Speak Out and we want your help! Join slam poet and mental health activist Leah Harris from DC, Caty Simon, Lee Hurter and others. We need speakers and volunteers for this upcoming event -- get in touch with caty(at)freedom-center(dot)org.

due to personal & uncontrollable happenings in the lives of both support group facilitators, there will be no group tonight. we hope that this never happens again & are working...

Freedom Center is seven years old!

To celebrate our birthday, and the honor of being recognized by Forbes, Freedom Center will host a special event to screen the video at its "Lucky 7 Psychosocial" party on

September 20th at 6 pm

World War II Club

50 Conz St., Northampton, MA.

The celebration will also include a hula-hooping performance by the Noho Hooperstars, live music by "Bucket Benny," and a dance party hosted by DJ Black Angus until midnight.

Screening of the short film Freedom To Heal will begin at 7pm.

There will be a cash bar, and the event will be catered by the Alternative Food Company.

Suggested donations are $10 at the door; nobody will be turned away for a lackof funds.

Listen to the radio PSA Freedom Center's Keely Malone put together

Download the party flyer below:

Freedom Center holds support and advocacy meetings every Thursday 7:00 to 9:00pm
in downtown Northampton, 43 Center Street left side entrance up stairs second floor.

Our meetings are open to people labeled with mental disorders, survivors of psychiatric abuse, and people struggling with extreme states of consciousness/suffering. Allies and supporters willing to share their personal experiences are also welcome (mental health staff allies are welcome but should contact us first).

Contact: Erika Arthur 413/ 253-5432
*erika@foodforthoughtbooks.com* <erika@foodforthoughtbooks.com>

Are You *Surviving America's Depression Epidemic*?

*Author Bruce Levine to Present at Food for Thought Books*
AMHERST – Author Bruce Levine will present and read from his new book,
*Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy* at 7 pm on Tuesday, March 25 at Food for Thought Books in Amherst.

Listen to the audio PSA here.

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Tues February 5th
7pm

Broadside Bookshop 247 Main St Northampton MA

Discussion with Will Hall, author of the new

*Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs*