About me
Jim Gottstein is an Alaska-based lawyer, now living on Maui, who founded the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) whose mission is to mount a strategic litigation campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock. He won five Alaska Supreme Court appeals, three on constitutional grounds, invalidating various aspects of Alaska’s mental illness system. Jim is most known for subpoenaing and releasing secret documents showing Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of Zyprexa hid that it causes diabetes and other metabolic problems, resulting in a series of front page stories in The New York Times. He has written The Zyprexa Papers about this and his representation of Bill Bigley for whom he subpoenaed the secret documents. Jim is currently devoting the bulk of his time to the MindFreedom Shield Program and working to empower the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) advisory councils.