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By Daniel Mackler In June of 2012, twenty-three people came together to discuss the subject of coming off psychiatric drugs. We were psychiatric survivors, therapists, mental health consumers, family members, and activists, united by a passion for truth-telling. More than half of us had successfully come off psych drugs, including cocktails of antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. What resulted from our three-day gathering was an unforgettable meeting of the minds. This 75-minute documentary (directed by Daniel Mackler) offers a rare glimpse into the world of coming off psych drugs through the eyes of those who have done it. The film presents, among others, Will Hall, author of the world-renowned “Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs,” Oryx Cohen, director at the National Empowerment Center, Laura Delano, blogger at www.madinamerica.com, and Daniel Hazen, noted psychiatric survivor and human rights activist. Although this documentary is not medical advice, it intends to offer something even better: hope. In a world where increasing numbers of people are put on psychiatric drugs every day, where more than 20 percent of Americans already take them, and where so many are told they need to stay on them for life, COMING OFF PSYCH DRUGS offers proof that another way is possible. -
By National Empowerment Center
Starting Recovery Dialogues in Your Community
This DVD focuses specifically on one form of dialogical practice: Recovery Dialogues. In the DVD, you will witness an actual Recovery Dialogue and learn how you can set up Recovery Dialogues in your community. -
By National Empowerment Center
A Public Health Education Program
This DVD uses a combination of discussion and scenarios taken from real life to illustrate the values and practice of Emotional CPR (eCPR), an exciting and innovative public health education program designed to teach people how to support others through emotional crisis/distress and into recovery. -
Printed version of the PACE manual.
Also available in PDF format via the home page of NEC website. Available in English, Spanish and Japanese Japanese Translation by: RACA - Recovery Alternative Change Association -
Purchase the complete Recovery Series for the combined price of $149.
Includes one each of the following:
- PACE/Recovery Curriculum - $49.00
- PACE/Recovery through Peer Support Curriculum - $69.00
- PACE/Recovery through Peer Providers - $29.00
- PACE/Recovery Reader - $30.00
$177.00 If priced separately
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By Amy Long, LPN, Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
Recovery through Peer Providers is an invaluable tool for health care purchasers, managed care organizations, behavioral health care providers, and mental health consumers. Promote recovery by inspiring hope, improving communication, building peer support, highlighting positive role models and sharing coping strategies. -
By Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD, Judi Chamberlin
Training for peer coaches, family members and providers.
"Recovery through Peer Support" is a curriculum for consumers in training to become peer coaches, for consumers wishing to further their own recovery, for family members, and those wanting to assist another person in their development as a whole human being while learning new skills for promoting recovery. The curriculum describes the evolution of peer support by mental health consumers, gives concrete suggestions of ways to facilitate recovery by using the 10 major principles of recovery developed by NEC, and contains interviews with peer coaches describing their experiences. Written by authors with decades of experience in peer support and consumer movement. -
By Laurie Ahern, Daniel Fisher, MD PhDPeople can and do recover from severe emotional distress known as "mental illness".
This curriculum has been developed by Laurie Ahern and Dan Fisher MD, Ph.D. It includes a 34-page guide and a 90-minute video lecture on the PACE (Personal Assistance in Community Existence) curriculum, featuring information on the empowerment model of recovery, PACE/Recovery principles, and recovery research. This information is useful for administrators, consumers, families, advocates, and providers who want to transform their system to one based on a recovery culture. -
By Dorothy Dundas Dorothy Dundas, a survivor of forced combined insulin coma/electroshock, psychiatric drugging, seclusion and restraint during her teenage years, has created this powerful poster from her actual hospital records -
Electronic version availableBy Judi Chamberlin
On Our Own is Judi's story as a patient in both public and private hospitals. The story explores her experiences while being a patient as well as the lessons she learned while using services controlled by the patients themselves. It makes a compelling case for patient controlled services; a real alternative to the institutions that destroy the confident independence of so many. This is a work of great hope and optimism. On Our Own is now translated in to Korean, thanks to Ji-Eun Lee. To download the Korean version, please click here. -
Available only electronicallyBy Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD
The question most often asked of Dan is: "How did you recover?" This electronic booklet includes Dan's personal experience from seclusion to empowerment, and the healing strategies he found helpful. Learn about the values Dan lives by, the strategies he found helpful in healing his "mental illness", and how to connect and harmonize with others. -
By Daniel Mackler and Matt Morrissey
Dealing with Your Family After You've Been Diagnosed with a Psychiatric Disorder
Family conflict can wreak havoc on people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. A Way Out of Madness offers guidance in resolving family conflict and taking control of your life. The book also includes personal accounts of family healing by people who were themselves psychiatrically diagnosed. Contributors include: Patch Adams, M.D., inspiration for Robin Williams film; Joanne Greenberg, author, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden; David Oaks, director, MindFreedom International; Will Hall, co-founder, Freedom Center.- Click here to read a review of the book
- Sample chapter by Dorothy W. Dundas - Attachments Lost and Found (PDF, 25KB, 9 pages)
- Sample chapter by Will Hall - Life After Family
