Mindfreedom Ireland was founded in 2003 when a group of approximately 15 people met in the house of Helena King in Cork. Helena King, Greg White, Dr. Terry Lynch, Dr. Peter Breggin and the Cork Advocacy Network all played their part in the genesis of MindFreedom Ireland. It was their raising of a critical psychiatric consciousness on the early years of the new millennium that led to the connection being established with MindFreedom International and its director, David Oaks.
MindFreedom Ireland is an affiliate of MindFreedom International with whom we share our mission statement, in addition to campaigning in a specifically Irish context.
Our vision is a non-violent revolution in “Mental Health Care”
Our goals:
• Win Human Rights and alternatives for people labeled with psychiatric disabilities
• Challenge abuses by psychiatric drug industry
• Support the self-determination of psychiatric survivors and “Mental Health” consumers
• Promote safe, humane and effective options in “Mental Health”

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Amnesty International Irish section’s mental health campaign is part of Amnesty International’s global campaign against discrimination and mental health reform. Amnesty International believes that globally the only way to ensure respect for human rights in mental health systems and in-patient facilities is through effective enforcement of international human rights standards, principally through rights-based national legislation.

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GROW is a Mental Health Organisation which helps people who have suffered, or are suffering, from mental health problems. Members are helped to recover from all forms of mental breakdown, or indeed, to prevent such happening. GROW, founded in Australia in 1957 by former mental sufferers, has a national network of over 130 Groups in Ireland. Its principal strength is the support members give each other from their own experience in matters to do with mental health. GROW is grant aided by all of the Health Boards and by the Department of Health and Children.

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