page_title: David Oaks
hierarchical_section_title: David Oaks
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of David William Oaks taken by Paula Goodbar
context_page_description: David William Oaks is a civil rights activist and founder and former executive director of Eugene, Oregon-based MindFreedom International. The organization includes psychiatric survivors and dissident psychiatrists who reject what they say is the "domination" by the biomedical model that defines contemporary psychiatry. Oaks says that the psychiatric drugs that patients take have harmful side effects, and people can often recover without them.
context_section_description: David William Oaks (born September 16, 1955, Chicago, Illinois) is a civil rights activist and founder and former executive director of Eugene, Oregon-based MindFreedom International. The organization includes psychiatric survivors and dissident psychiatrists who reject what they say is the "domination" by the biomedical model that defines contemporary psychiatry. Oaks says that the psychiatric drugs that patients take have harmful side effects, and people can often recover without them.
caption: David William Oaks, 2009
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