Tristano Ajmone

Computer Programmer & Web Designer
NLP Master Practitioner

Tristano Ajmone is President of OISM since January 2005.

Dr. Claudio Ajmone

Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist

Founder and first president of OISM

Honorary Member
Associazione Europea di Psicoanalisi

Dr. Fred Baughman

adult and child neurologist

Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology

Dr. Baughman has testified before Congress, the European Union, and the Parliament of Western Australia that ADHD and all claims that psychiatric diagnoses are diseases, are fraudulent.

Dr. Giorgio Antonucci

Psychoanalyst, Physician

Avoiding confinement in mental hospitals, and the humanization of those in existence, has characterized his work since 1966. Antonucci was a collaborator of Franco Basaglia in 1969, and from the seventies on he operated at Reggio Emilia and at the mental hospital of Imola where he revolutionized life-conditions of the patients, restoring them to a human condition of existence. Today he works privately in Florence.

Prof. Loren Mosher
(1933-2004)

Psychiatrist

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego.

From 1968 to 1980 first Chief of NIMH’s Center for Studies of Schizophrenia; founder of “The Schizophrenia Bulletin”; from 1970 to 1992 he was a collaborating investigator, then Research Director, of the Soteria Project (Community Alternatives for the Treatment of Schizophrenia with a psychodrugless approach).

Dott. Mariano Loiacono

Psychiatrist

Director of
Center for Social Medicine
of the United Hospitals of Foggia

Dr. Loiacono since 30 years conducts with success a therapy for the “widespread discomfort”, a method which does not contemplate the use of psychiatric drugs and utilizes new and atypical psychotherapeutic approaches to the dynamics of global and complex life.

Prof. Thomas Szasz

Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
Science Center, State University of New York, Syracuse.

Prof. Thomas Szasz has been, for over 40 years, the most famous critic of psychiatry. His main book, The Myth of Mental Illness — dating back to 1961 — challenged the very foundations psychiatry.

Moosa Salie

Psychiatric Survivor,
Board Member of WNUSP,
Executive Board Member of PANUSP

Moosa Salie is a Southafrican psychiatric survivor who committed mimself to the struggle of championing the human rights of all people who regard themselves as users or survivors. He is Board Member of WNUSP (World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry) and Executive Board Member of PANUSP (Pan African Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry).

Saverio Tommasi

Actor and Voice Talent.

Saverio Tommasi is a professional actor, he also teaches theatre (movement, voice, recitation) and his the «mattatore» of the Compagnia Teatrale Saverio Tommasi.

Saverio supported the campaign Giù Le Mani Dai Bambini with the production of his theatrical informative short movie NO Ritalin (free distribution).

In support of OISM’s mission Saverio Tommasi accomplished the audio reading of Professor Thomas Szasz conference Principi Libertari e Prassi Psichiatriche: Sono Compatibili? (the Italian translation of Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices: Are They Compatible?)

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