15 Facts About Judi Chamberlin

Judi Chamberlin was an American activist, leader, organizer, public speaker and educator in the psychiatric survivors movement.

Judi Chamberlin was the author of On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System, which is a foundational text in the Mad Pride movement.

Judi Chamberlin was born Judith Rosenberg in Brooklyn in 1944.

Judi Chamberlin was the only daughter of Harold and Shirley Jaffe Rosenberg.

Judi Chamberlin's father was a factory worker when she was a child and later worked as an executive in the advertising industry.

In 1966, at the age of twenty-one and recently married, Chamberlin suffered a miscarriage and, according to her own account, became severely depressed.

Judi Chamberlin was involved with the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy and was an influential leader in the Mad Pride movement.

Judi Chamberlin met David Oaks in 1976, when he was the chief executive of MindFreedom International.

Judi Chamberlin was a major contributor to the National Council on Disability's report From Privileges to Rights: People Labeled with Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for Themselves, which was published in 2000.

Judi Chamberlin was elected as co-chair of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry at the launching conference and General Assembly in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2001, and served in this capacity until the next General Assembly in 2004.

Judi Chamberlin appears in the 2011 disability rights documentary Lives Worth Living.

Judi Chamberlin met Chabasinski, an early member of the psychiatric survivor movement, in 1971 at the initial meeting of the Mental Patients Liberation Project in New York City.

From 2006 until her death, Judi Chamberlin's partner was Martin Federman.

Judi Chamberlin has one daughter, Julie Chamberlin, and three grandchildren, Edward, Kyle, and Vivian.

Judi Chamberlin died from chronic lung disease at her home in Arlington, Massachusetts on January 16,2010.