Choose from massage, acupuncture, cranial sacral,
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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.