Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "MindFreedom Internacional" in Portuguese language version.
MindFreedom International was co-founded by David Oaks and Janet Foner in 1990 as Support Coalition International.
MindFreedom International (MFI) is an international coalition of over one hundred community groups and thousands of individual members. It was founded in 1990 to advocate against forced medication, medical restraints and involuntary electroconvulsive therapy. Its stated mission is to protect the rights of people who have been labelled with psychiatric disorders [...] MindFreedom International is rooted in the psychiatric survivors' movement which arose out of the civil rights movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s based on the personal histories of psychiatric abuse experienced by some ex-patients.
MindFreedom, whose interests are globally positioned, became accredited by the United Nations as a nongovernmental organization with consultative roster status.
In the 1970s, survivor groups appeared such as the Insane Liberation Front in Portland and the Mental Patient's Liberation Project in New York City [...] Efforts of survivor groups were crystallized in Judy Chamberlin's 1978 book, On Our Own: Patient Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System.
Judi Chamberlin, who is a psychiatric survivor and an activist since 1971 in the consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement. She has been a member of the Mental Patients' Liberation Front (MPLF).
