Our Library
All resources collated in this library support the international Mad movements
International Mad Movement Organisations
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World Network of Users & Survivors of Psychiatry
The World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, WNUSP, is the international organisation of users and survivors of psychiatry and people with psychosocial disabilities.
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MindFreedom International
MindFreedom International is a nonprofit that has spent over two decades advancing advocacy, public education, mutual support, and organising to promote mental and emotional wellness for all people.
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The Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
The Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (CHRUSP) aims to provide strategic leadership in human rights advocacy, implementation and monitoring relevant to people experiencing or labeled with madness, mental health problems or trauma.
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International Network Towards Alternatives and Rights-Based Supports
INTAR is an international, open network founded in 2003 to promote non-coercive, non-medical, and rights-based alternatives to traditional psychiatric systems through global collaboration, dialogue, and advocacy.
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Hearing Voices Network
The Hearing Voices Network is a peer-focused, non-medical support organisation that creates respectful, empowering spaces for people who hear voices, see visions or have similar sensory experiences to share their perspectives, challenge stigma and discrimination, and connect with others for support and understanding.
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International Disability Alliance
International Disability Alliance (IDA) is a global network of organisations of persons with disabilities (DPOs), uniting eight global and six regional organisations that collectively represent over 1,100 DPOs worldwide and serve as a leading voice for the rights of the world’s one billion persons with disabilities.
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Mad in America
Mad in America is a nonprofit webzine and platform that publishes news, research, personal stories, and commentary to critically challenge the dominant drug-based model of psychiatric care and advocate for rethinking and transforming mental health treatment toward more humanistic and evidence-informed approaches.
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Intentional Peer Support
Intentional Peer Support provides a powerful framework for creating relationships in which both people learn and grow together, offering a range of trainings that examine and practice what is necessary to build mutual support.
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Institute for the Development of Human Arts
The Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA) is a New York-based nonprofit that advances a transformative, rights-based, peer-centered, and holistic paradigm of mental health through community-focused education, training, critical dialogue, and cross-movement collaboration.
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National Survivor User Network
The National Survivor User Network (NSUN) is a UK-based, user-led charity and membership network of grassroots groups and individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma that connects, supports and amplifies their voices to redistribute power and resources, influence mental health policy and practice, and challenge inequality.
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European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
The European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) is a grassroots European umbrella NGO that unites local and national organisations of people who have used or survived psychiatric services to advocate for their human rights, challenge discrimination and abuses, and support mutual exchange, empowerment and policy influence across Europe.
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Redesfera Latinoamericana de la Diversidad Psicosocial
Redesfera Latinoamericana de la Diversidad Psicosocial (REDESFERA) is a regional Latin American organization led by people with diverse “Mad,” neurodivergent, and psychosocial identities including psychiatric survivors and people with psychosocial disabilities, working to defend their rights, promote justice, reshape narratives, and build community across the region.
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Pan African Network of People with Psychosocial Disabilities
Pan African Network of People with Psychosocial Disabilities (PANPPD) is a continental African organisation that unites and supports organisations of people with psychosocial disabilities to advocate for their rights, inclusion, dignity, and systemic change across the continent.
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Transforming Communities Initiative
Transforming Communities Initiative (TCI) is a global, membership-based organisation of persons with psychosocial disabilities and their allies that advocates for full inclusion, human rights, and community-based participation in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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Mad Thinking
Mad Thinking is an initiative dedicated to creating spaces, tools, and opportunities to explore key questions about power, leadership, organisational strength, and solidarity, with the aim of building stronger, sustainable, and inclusive disability movements.
Psychiatric Survivor Archives
Survivor archives document the voices, histories, and organising work of psychiatric survivors across the UK, North America, and beyond, preserving lived experience, resistance, and knowledge through collections such as:
Mad Literature
Mad literatures articulate survivor-led and critical perspectives on psychiatry, disability, power, and resistance, bringing lived experience and theory into dialogue through works such as:
Mad Information Sharing Spaces
These spaces are designed to connect people, share knowledge honestly, and support informed action:
TACFLE Publications
Peer support mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches by World Health Organisation, Community Guidance on Human Rights and Recovery, Guidance and Technical Packages on Community Mental Health Services,
Early Warning Signs of a Mental Health Tsunami: A Coordinated Response to Gather Initial Data Insights From Multiple Digital Services Providers by Frontiers in Digital Mental Health, Feb 2021
Lived Experience Profile - Matthew Jackman, Global Mental Health Impact Story by Matthew Jackman, Harvard Global Health Institute, April 2020
Lived Experience Profile - Matthew Jackman, Global Mental Health Impact Story by Matthew Jackman, Harvard Global Health Institute, April 2020
Perspectives of lived experience across continents: our reality and call for universal health coverage by The Lancet Psychiatry, January 2021
The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health: Commentary, 2020 by Matthew Jackman, Global Mental Health Peer Network – Regional Executive Committee, Western Pacific Region
The Mental Health and Service User Experience During COVID19 in Australia: From Personal to Professional Disaster by Matthew Jackman, A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature (ISSN: 2690-7089), 2020
To Live is to Lose, and to Lose is to Live - A Poem by Matthew Jackman, Generation Mental Health, 2020
Transforming personal distress into global human rights advocacy in mental health: my story by Matthew Jackman, Generation Mental Health
The mental health and service user experience during COVID19: From personal to professional disaster by Matthew Jackman, Generation Mental Health
Sobbing without support: a tale of pandemic ‘living experience’ by Matthew Jackman, Generation Mental Health
A social worker perspective. The mental health and service user experience during COVID19 in Australia: from personal to professional disaster by Matthew Jackman, The Nurse Break
Guardianship patient characteristics and outcomes in geriatric social work practice: Australian context by Matthew Jackman, Fiona McDermott, Jacinta Sadler, Nicole El Hage & Halim Lee
CERC in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing by Toronto Metropolitan University
Matthew’s Story : Your Lived Experience is a Global Superpower by Global Mental Health Action Network
From Survival to Global Advocacy: A Lived Experience Perspective on Mental Health and the UN High-Level Meeting by Matthew Jackman
Transforming my experiences of Madness into International Mad activism: A Personal to Political Journey by Matthew Jackman, Mental Health Innovation Network
Bipolar as Sacred Fire: Spirituality, Creativity, Gender, and the Transformative Power of Madness by Matthew Jackman for International Bipolar Foundation
