Mother of the Recovery Movement: Thanks and a hat tip to MindFreedom
Following her discharge, Chamberlin became involved in the nascent psychiatric patients' rights movement.[1] In 1971 she joined the Boston based Mental Patients Liberation Front (MPLF),[5] and she also became associated with the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University .[4] Her affiliation with this center facilitated her role in co-founding the Ruby Rogers Advocacy and Drop-in-Centers,[4] which are self-help institutions staffed by former psychiatric patients.[5] and was also a founder and later a Director of Education of the National Empowerment Center.[2] The latter is also an ex-patient run organization that provides information, technical assistance, and support to users and survivors of the psychiatric system.[5] Its mission statement declares its intent is to "carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been labeled with mental illness".[7]