David Oaks
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"David W. Oaks" is a civil rights activist and founder and former executive director of Eugene, Oregon-based MindFreedom International.

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It's very unimaginative. The idea sounds good: get help for the kids.

This [has] been going on for years. The psychiatric model [of the past] has been mainstreamed. And now, the system's coming for all of us.

We're opposed to all these techniques because they're inherently intrusive and irreversible, and they give doctors a lot of control. It's like throwing gas on a fire.