“Beyond the political manoeuvres to which occasionally resort by turns various social climbers, in order to gain notoriety, the reins of the struggle against psychiatry and eugenics remain firmly in the hands of those who have devoted their life to freedom fighting. Occasionally, even the victims of today’s psychiatric tortures manage to rise again from the condition of social destitution and disintegration of the soul in which psychiatry drove them. When the semi-fallen freedom fighters rise again, inevitably they grasp with pride and ferocity the flag of the battle against psychiatry...”

— Tristano Ajmone, preface to La Verità Sull’Olocausto, 2004.

Mediatic Battles

Tristano Ajmone has conducted the following mediatic battles:

• March 2004 — publication of the free eBook L’Innganno Psichiatrico.

• June 2004 — publication of the free eBook La Verità Sull’Olocausto.

• August 2005 — helped in the translation of Ken Steele’s The Day The Voices Stopped (italian title: E Venne Il Giorno Che Le Voci Tacquero), by revising the final text.

• September 2005 — Web-Redesign of OISM website.

• September 2005 — Designed Loren Mosher’s commemorative website.

• September 2005 — italian translation of the free video The Foucault Tribunal on the state of Psychiatry.

• November 2005 — Designed Dr. Mariano Loiacono’s Honorary Member of OISM website.

• November 2005 — Designed Thomas Szasz’s Honorary Member of OISM website.

• November 2005 — Tristano denunces on the newspapeer Torino Cronaca: «4-Point-Restrained in the psychiatric hospital» (in Italian!)

• Dicember 2005 — Tristano, in occasion of the meeting DIONISO E DIESSEMME, delivers the denouncing speech «The Foucault Tribunal: The Ignored Users’ Voice»

• Dicember 2005 — Translation in Italian and production of a free audio of Thomas Szasz’s conference «Principi Libertari e Prassi Psichiatriche: Sono Compatibili?» (Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices: Are They Compatible? — 2003).

• February 2006 — Production of a free audio of Thomas Szasz’s conference «La deistituzionalizzazione, l’ultimo capriccio della psichiatria» (1980).

• 10th March 2006 — Tristano Ajmone delivers the speech «Mirages And Hopes in Mental Health» at a meeting in Bologna

• July 2006 — Tristano presents his personal story for the book First Person Stories on Forced Interventions and Being Deprived of Legal Capacity.

Translations

Among the articles translated, from english to italian, for OISM website:

• Psichiatria Britannica: Dall’Eugenetica all’Assassinio

• Soteria e Altre Alternative al Ricovero Psichiatrico Ospedaliero

• Il Lato Oscuro Degli Psicofarmaci

• Sindrome Neuologica Maligna (SNM) 1959-1980

• Il Trattamento con gli Inibitori Selettivi della Recaptazione della Serotonina (SSRI) Durante l’Infanzia può Ridurre la Crescita

• Sindrome amotivazionale connessa all’utilizzo degli SSRI con i giovani per la prima volta

• Desideri ardenti di alcolici indotti dall’incremento della serotonina

• La storia dietro al Prozac... Il farmaco assassino

• L’olio di pesce può aiutare contro la depressione maniacale

• Baughman vs Castellanos: Lettera all’Editore, JAMA 5 Novembre 2002

• Il Boom delle Sindromi Psichiatriche

• Il Manifesto di Thomas Szasz