Rethinking Psychiatry presents a screening of Open Dialogue.
A documentary film on the Western Lapland Open Dialogue Project, the program presently getting the best results in the developed world for treating first-break psychosis. Approximately 85% of those treated achieve full recovery, and a huge majority remain off antipsychotic drugs.

Filmed in Finland. Directed by Daniel Mackler. With Jaakko Seikkula, Robert Whitaker, Mia Kurtti, Markku Sutela, Birgitte Alakare.

Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)
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FREE! (Donations Welcome $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com

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Join us for a potluck to celebrate our 7th year of Rethinking Psychiatry!

• TELL your story of why/how you came to the Rethinking community
• LOOK back at what we’ve accomplished in our last 6 years together
• SHARE your ideas and hopes for the future
• BRING a dish or drink to share & enjoy good food in good company

We look forward to seeing you there next Wednesday!

Let’s continue to share our passion for a more healing community!
Thank you for 6 years of inspiration and empowerment.

Wednesday, September 6th, 2017,  7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon, 700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR

Strategies for Navigating the Space between Brilliance & Madness

• What am I like when I am well?
• What am I like when I am having a hard time?
• What do I NOT want to hear or have happen?
• Acceptable & unacceptable treatments?
• How will my supporters know that I no longer need to use this plan?

We’ll work together to create our own Mad Maps in an atmosphere of mutual support.

Wednesday, June 7th, 2017,   7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon,  700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR

Psychiatrist & author Daniel Fisher, MD, will be in Portland April 3, 2017 to talk about his new book, “Heartbeats of Hope, The Empowerment Way to Recover Your Life“.

Daniel Fisher MD, PhD

While carrying out neurochemical research at NIMH, Fisher was diagnosed with “schizophrenia.” He recovered, and to humanize the mental health system obtained an MD and completed psychiatric training. He worked for 25 years as a community psychiatrist, founded the National Empowerment Center, was a member of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, and is Chair of the Board of the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery.

Dr. Fisher is presently on the faculty of U. Massachusetts Dept. of Psychiatry, where he is helping to adapt Open Dialogue to the US. He helped peers in Louisiana respond to hurricane Katrina, and based on those experiences he helped develop Emotional CPR.

“I hope for a day when:

Every person who experiences extreme emotional states is engaged in respectful, hopeful, humanistic, and empowering relationships that enable them to heal and recover full, meaningful lives in the community.

Instead of being seen as threats to society, we will be seen as a source of wisdom that we have obtained through our recovery.

Practices like Open Dialogue will eliminate the long-term iatrogenic effects of a prophesy of doom and lifelong illness.

Suffering will be seen as an understandable human response to trauma rather than a chemical imbalance or a defective fear circuit.

Voluntary, community-based, recovery-oriented, culturally-attuned, trauma-informed services and housing will replace psychiatric hospitals.

The mental health system will be run by persons with lived experience of recovery from extreme emotional states.

Everyone will learn how to assist each other through extreme emotional states by learning communication skills such as Emotional CPR.”

Monday, April 3rd, 2017, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Montavilla United Methodist Church
232 SE 80th Ave, Portland, Oregon