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Except As A Punishment This is a slightly edited comment that I put in the chat of the webinar on the wrap up of s...
04/22/2024

Except As A Punishment This is a slightly edited comment that I put in the chat of the webinar on the wrap up of social workers advocacy - although it was alluded to in the question and answer period, with other comments that were in the chat, and a hearty laugh could be heard, that there were more "statements than questions" it was overlooked and not addressed - as were other people's comments . . . .

HB 576/SB 453 - Maryland's Involuntary Outpatient Commitment legislation which sadly and disturbingly passed.

Involuntary Outpatient Commitment is psychiatric parole and part of the modern system of slavery.

All forms of slavery, including slavery as a form of punishment and labor as a form of treatment, ought to be abolished.

Psychiatry has no physical evidence of any psychiatric diagnosis assigned to individuals. There is plenty of physical evidence for the physical damages psychiatric practices, procedures, and products cause people.

The pain caused by court ordered psychiatry, includes iatrogenic effects, disabilities, known loss of life - and death.

Even a person who is voluntarily complying with informed consent with psychiatry experiences a loss of life for compliance with psychiatry. These losses are real and severe.

Forced compliance with psychiatry sentences one now, in Maryland like other States in the US, puts someone at risk to torture, slavery, and likely, manslaughter if not murder not only in State-operated institutions, but in the community as well.

The passage of this legislation in the House and Senate of Maryland is a loss for Human Rights beyond Maryland, which nationally, prior to passage of this legislature, as a State, Maryland was viewed as a protector and promoter of human rights with a forward-thinking public psychiatric system.

Anyone interested in organizing within abolitionist frameworks, please connect with me (516) 319-4295 [email protected] Lauren J. Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, BPS, Psychiatric Survivor.

Except As A Punishment

TEXT OF PHOTO::: The Way We Think About The 13th Amendment Is Dead Wrong. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT AS A PUNISHMENT for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States,
or any place subject to their jurisdiction. www.LaurenTenney.us facebook.com/TenneyLauren facebook.com/ExceptAsAPunishment

Lauren Tenney

12/16/2023

? I am in the 18th Century heading toward the 17th century.

Lauren Tenney

Get involved and speak out! Focus Group for Individuals and Families with Lived Experience with AOT & Focus Group for ...
01/25/2023

Get involved and speak out! Focus Group for Individuals and Families with Lived Experience with AOT & Focus Group for Advocates



The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) is in the process of evaluating Assisted Outpatient Treatment or AOT - aka Kendra’s Law - and planning for a new study.



We are setting up focus groups for individuals and family members who have lived experience with AOT so we can collect your input about what’s most important to study. We’re also seeking input from the advocacy community.



The focus groups for Individuals and Families will be held on:



Date One: January 18, 2023 from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Registration Link:
https://meetny.webex.com/weblink/register/rd81800061210596478efe4a8cdf196a0



Date Two: January 26, 2023 from 10:30 am to 12:00 noon
Registration Link:
https://meetny.webex.com/weblink/register/rcde0b0d6dc92f2b40ec76d50d0cedf23



Date Three: January 31, 2023 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Registration Link:
https://meetny.webex.com/weblink/register/r2bde41823d2624f99454b310ac9d3294



The focus group for Advocates will be held on January 30, 2023 from 11:00 am to 12:30 noon
Registration Link:
https://meetny.webex.com/weblink/register/r6993cc514ac4b8151972cc5b47d6e7cc



We invite you to register for one of these dates and join us for these important conversations.



History

On August 9, 1999, the Governor signed Kendra's Law (Chapter 408 of the Laws of 1999), creating a statutory framework for court-ordered Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) to ensure that individuals with mental illness and a history of hospitalizations or violence participate in community-based services appropriate to their needs. The law became effective in November of 1999 and reviewed periodically by the legislature for continuation. Since that time, the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) has been evaluating the impact of Kendra's Law on individuals receiving court-ordered services. This past Budget session, in April of 2022, included several new substantive changes, and again extends the law until 2027. In 2009 the Duke Study was published, which was the first independent evaluation of the program.



For more information about AOT please visit: https://my.omh.ny.gov/bi/aot





Again, we’re inviting your participation in the focus groups to help us plan for an updated, objective study of the AOT program. Thank you!



Questions about the focus groups can be sent to Suzanne Feeney, [email protected]





Amanda Saake, LMSW, CPRP, NYCPS-P

Chief Advocacy Officer

Office of Advocacy and Peer Support Services

Pronouns: she, her, hers



Office of Mental Health

Hope. Recovery. Resilience.

44 Holland Avenue, Albany, NY, 12229

(518) 473-6579

11/23/2022

PEER Magazine 9.0 Fall and Winter 2022, an ART+ for Social Justice Peer mHealth zine

07/15/2021

This is a draft tribute in loving memory of George Ebert. The Mental Patients Liberation Alliance invites you to the 41st Annual Bastille Day vigil. and to help plan for the Bastille Day Demonstration . Celebrate the Human Spirit. Stop psychiatric oppression. If you would like to be part of this documentary honoring more than 50 years of George Ebert's activism please contact Lauren Tenney at 5163194295.

11/01/2020

Lauretta Bender, M.D. was on the advisory editorial board of National Comics, now DC Comics. In the US Senate Judiciary Hearings on Juvenile Delinquency as related to comic books, in part where the Comics Code was addressed, Bender gives testimony which includes the influence of children at Bellevue Hospital that she was subjecting to electric shock treatment (ECT, elctroconvulsive treatment) on creating the copyrighted superman costume. This is Part 1 - a 6 minute video I am running first testing sound, then adding comment, if necessary, then running twice for ideal recording clip. The testimony itself, which I recorded the other day is about 45 minutes total.

11/01/2020

Call in (914) 205-5794 to talk with poet and visual artist Jyl Anais on October 31, 2020 from 9PM - 11PM Eastern on Talk with Tenney!

Jyl Anais is a poet and visual artist who works at the intersections of a variety of media. Her debut poetry collection, Soft Out Spoken, was released in 2019. Jyl’s work appears in We Are The Changemakers, Protectors 2: Heroes, and Asylum Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry among others. She’s worked as an advocate for victims of child abuse in the court system. Originally from Trinidad, she now lives in the United States where she works as a forensic medium, makes plant medicine in her home apothecary, and faces the blank page.

Soft Out Spoken, Jyl Anais’ debut poetry collection was published by Sin Miedo Press in 2019.

https://www.jylanais.com/

FIRE A SPOKEN WORD ALBUM



on as we get ready to go live on check out the draft of Part One of #1954 Mental American Monster The Sprawl of American Psychiatry to be involved contact Lauren Tenney 5163194295

10/25/2020

Call in to talk with Jacob Moses (914) 205-5794 and hear about his newest publication, Seance, October 24, 2020 at 9:00 PM Eastern 6:00 PM Pacific on Talk with Tenney.

Jacob Moses (AKA Jack M. Freedman) is a poet and spoken word artist from Staten Island, NY.

Publications featuring his work span the globe. Countries include USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Singapore, and Thailand.

He penned the books: ...and the willow smiled (Cyberwit, 2019), Art Therapy 101 (Cyberwit, 2019), and Seance (Cyberwit, 2020).

Each of these books are available on Amazon.

Check out more from Jacob Moses!

pw.org/directory/writers/jack_m_freedman_jacob_moses

Facebook.com/jacobmosespoet

cyberwit.net/publications/1445

10/24/2020

Hi Everyone - Tonight 10/23 Eastern! Call in 914-205-5794! I will be reading an unpublished manuscript concerning the history of the use of electric shock treatment (ECT, electroconvulsive treatment) on children. I will also discuss how Lauretta Bender, MD, the psychiatrist who created the diagnosis of childhood autistic schizophrenia popularized the use of shock treatment on children and her work also using metrazol insulin shock and LSD-25 on children. I will also address Bender's connections to the 33rd Degree Scottish Masons and Superman. October 23 9PM Eastern, 8PM Central, 7PM Mountain, 6PM Pacific https://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkwithtenney/2020/10/24/lauretta-bender-md-the-childrens-shock-doc-on-talk-with-tenney-10232020

10/20/2020

Call 914-205-5794 TONIGHT 9:30 Eastern on Talk with Tenney on Mental American Monster The Sprawl of American Psychiatry

08/30/2020

This is a draft video Tribute to George Ebert. We have another recording session tonight August 30, 2020 at 6PM Eastern/5 PM Central/4 PM Mountain/3 PM Pacific. Please join us.
If you have photos or video you would like to have edited into this video please contact Lauren Tenney.

In this video: George Ebert, Celia Brown, James Rye, Paula Caplan, Emily Vaianella, Chris Hansen, Shery Mead, Joseph Rogers, Jennifer Kinsey, Yvonne Smith, Tom Behrendt, Sandy Brower, Rob Greaves, Sarah Knutson, and a message from Don Weitz read by Celia Brown. Coming soon - video of the reading of the Declaration of Principles.

Please get involved and speak out!

Help break the silence about psychiatric oppression. Help celebrated the human spirit.
Help make this Tribute to George Ebert an amazing testament to the nearly 50 years of his work with the Mental Patients Liberation Alliance.

Information for the ZOOM CALL TO PARTICIPATE::: TONIGHT!
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Tribute to George Ebert
Time: Aug 30, 2020 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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07/30/2020

NEW!!! - - You will hear me set up the stream. I will then play the draft video 3 times. I will then go live with new information. I will then play the draft video one more time. This is the draft version of the Call for Historians This DRAFT v2 (9 min. 36 sec) Mental American Monster The Sprawl of American Psychiatry. This is open for Public Comment. The information I present when I go live after the draft video runs 3 times will be edited into the next draft of the Call for Historians to be interviewed as part of this historical documentary, a . Please share. If you would like to be involved, contact me, at 5163194295.

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