Manuscripts and lectures about selfhelp, alternatives
and critics to psychiatry
Manuscripts in dansk
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/ svensk
In
the Danish language -
Lehmann, Peter: -
Den
kamuflerede galskab – Om ensretning af mennesker ved hjælp af neuroleptika,
in: Karl Bach Jensen, Erik Axel, Kirsten Dam et al. (Eds.): Hjernemedicin
– en bog om den giftige psykiatri, Copenhagen: Amalie
– Galebevægelsens forlag 1988 (pdf, 1 MB) -
Tyske
haner, in Amalie
– Galebevægelsens blad (Copenhagen), Vol. 5 (1983), No. 4 (pdf, 0.6
MB) -
Semap
er kræftfremkaldende og forbudt i Vesttyskland siden 1981, in Amalie
– Galebevægelsens blad (Copenhagen), Vol. 7 (1985), No. 4 (pdf, 0.3
MB) -
Teori
ok praksis i forbindelse med det psykiatriske testamente, in: Karl Bach Jensen,
Didi Arim, Caia Garupi & Claes Pedersen (Eds.): "Det
mindst onde –- en bog om menneskeret contra psykiatrisk tvang", Copenhagen:
Amalie –
galebevægelens forlag 1993 (pdf, 5.6 MB) -
Distriktspsykiatrisk
virkelighed – Kritik af den moderne socialpsykiatri, in Amalie
– Galebevægelsens blad (Copenhagen), Vol. 12 (1990), No. 6 (pdf,
2.2 MB) :In the
Dutch language In
the English language
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Bapu Trust for Research on
Mind and Discourse, India / WNUSP (Eds.): First
person stories on forced intervention and being deprived of
legal capacity (2006)
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Boevink, Wilma:
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Boevink, Wilma / Hans Kroon: Living
with a psychiatric disability: Lessons to learn and to pass
(2005)
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Bracken, Pat: Beyond
Models, Beyond Paradigms—The Radical Interpretation of
Recovery, in Peter & Stastny & Peter Lehmann (Eds.):
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry, Berlin / Eugene / Shrewsbury
2007, pp. 400-402
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Breggin, Peter:
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Buck, Dorothea: Seventy
Years of Coercion in German Psychiatric Institutions—Experienced
and Witnessed (Google video and pdf).
Keynote lecture from June 7, 2007, at the congress "Coercive
Treatment in Psychiatry" (World Psychiatric Association)
in Dresden, Germany
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Burstow, Bonnie: Understanding
and ending ECT: a feminist perspective (Winter/Spring 2006).
An outstanding article in Canadian Woman Studies by the Canadian
psychologist and University of Toronto faculty member Bonnie
Burstow
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Caras, Sylvia: Interview
about her experiences and visions on YouTube
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Chamberlin, Judi: Whose
Voice? Whose Choice? Whose Power? Keynote lecture from June
7, 2007, presented at the congress "Coercive Treatment
in Psychiatry" (World Psychiatric Association) in Dresden,
Germany (Google video)
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Cohen, Oryx: MindFreedom
Oral History Project: collected stories from 36 psychiatric
survivors: amazing and inspiring testimonies
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De Wyze, Jeannette: Still
Crazy After All Those Years; Local Shrink Assails the Schizophrenia
Racket – a biography of Loren R. Mosher's evolution
as a critic of psychiatry's current beliefs and practices and
the consequences it has had for his professional life
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Fabris, Erick: Identity,
Inmates, Insight, Capacity, Consent, Coercion: Chemical Incarceration
in Psychiatric Survivor Experiences of Community Treatment Orders.
A Thesis Submitted to the Adult Education and Counselling Psychology
Department, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in conformity for the
requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, 2006
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Fleming, Sean: The
failure to inform psychiatric 'patients' of the dangers of neuroleptic
drugs in Ireland. Unpublished manuscript from 2005
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Frank, Leonard Roy:
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Gombos, Gábor: Interview
from June 2005 about the fight for psychiatric rights on
YouTube
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Gottstein, Jim: How
the Legal System Can Help Create a Recovery Culture in Mental
Health Systems. Attorney Jim Gottstein discusses how strategic
litigation in the United States, combined with a serious public
education campaign and the increased availability of alternatives
to the drugging dominated mental health system, can combine
into a powerful force for positive change. Paper presented at
the conference "Alternatives 2005—Leading the Transformation
to Recovery", Phoenix, Arizona, October 28, 2005
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Gottstein, Jim & PsychRights® – Law Project for Psychiatric
Rights: Case
XX and The Zyprexa Papers Scandal
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Hansen, Chris: Interview
from June 2005 about Peer Support on YouTube
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Hearn, Rose Gill (Commissioner, New York City, Department of
Investigation): NDOI’s
Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of
Esmin Green (June 2009). Investigation into the horrific
death of Esmin Green – a poor, black and virtually homeless
woman who died on June 19, 2008, by the indifference, neglect
and incompetence of medical and psychiatric staff on a psychiatric
emergency ward in King's County Health Centre in Brooklyn
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Hölling, Iris:
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Icarus Project / Freedom Center: Harm
reduction guide coming off psychiatric drugs, booklet, New
York / Northampton 2007; full
text for free download (pdf – 2.9 MB)
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INTAR (International Network of Treatment Alternatives for
Recovery):
International group gathers to promote non-medical approaches
to treating people diagnosed with mental illness. Press
release from November 16, 2004
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Jändke, Lothar: Personal
Motivation for My Antipsychiatric Acting, in: Kerstin Kempker
& Peter Lehmann (Eds.): "Statt
Psychiatrie" (1993)
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Kempker, Kerstin:
The Runaway-house in Berlin. Lecture presented in Oslo 1999
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Klafki, Hannelore: Making
Common Sense of Voices. Lecture presented at the International
Conference "Dignity and Recovery" at the University College
Cork, February 2005
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Knight, Tamasin: Beyond
Belief – Alternative Ways of Working with Delusions, Obsessions
and Unusual Experiences. Book from 2009 (full text online
free available)
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Larsson, Janne: Psychiatric
drugs & suicide – How medical agencies deceive patients
and relatives. Report from November 2008 about suicides
committed in Sweden for 2006-2007 and the psychiatric drug treatment
that preceded these suicides
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Lehmann, Peter:
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Coming
off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics,
Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers
(Ed.), book from 2004
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The
Spirit of What Has not Been Said – Response to Prof.
John Sadler’s Keynote Presentation: "Personal and Community
Capacities: Philosophical Conundrums", University
of Central Lancashire: Faculty of Health, Institute for
Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health, Summer Colloquium
2009: Interpersonal Awareness and Mental Health, July 7,
2009
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Towards
the Ban of Electroshock (unpublished paper of 2009)
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The
political dimension of the self-help movement of people
with psychotic experiences. Paper from the "1st
International Conference–Quality of Life and
Psychology", run by the Psychological Society
of Northern Greece at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
December 2004
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For
and against psychotropic drugs. Proposal as position-paper
for the European Network of (ex-) Users and Survivors of
Psychiatry, in: European Newsletter of (ex-) Users and
Survivors of Psychiatry, No. 6 (Spring 1997) / and in:
ENUSP:
"Third Conference-Reading, England, 1996, January 3-6, 1997",
Utrecht: Self-publication 1999, pp.18-20
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Europe
– The European Network of (ex-) Users and Survivors
of Psychiatry, in Mental Health Observer, No.
17 (Summer 1997), p. 8
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Remarks
and points to be added to the Declaration of Madrid (World
Psychiatric Association), in: The Voiceless Movement
/ Les Sans-Voix (Ed.): "Deprived
of our humanity – The case against neuroleptic drugs",
1998
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Stop
exclusion, dare to share! Commentary of a "Mental Health
Advocate" at the World Health Day 2001. Lecture
presented at the meeting: Mental Health "Stop Exclusion—Dare
to care", WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. April
6, 2001
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The
Particular Elements of Soteria from the Perspective of (ex-)
Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. Lecture presented
at the congress "Soteria and No Restraint", Merano,
Italy, November 21-23, 2007
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Psychiatric
emergency-treatment: help against one's will or action of
professional violence?, in: Michel De Clercq / Antonio
Andreoli / Suzanne Lamarre / Peter Forster (Eds.): "Emergency
Psychiatry in a Changing World". Proceedings of the
5th World Congress of the International Association for
Emergency Psychiatry, Brussels, Belgium, October 15-17,
1998
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Keynote
presentation at "Whose Recovery is it Anyway",
congress run by the Social Perspectives Network, London,
October 16, 2007 (pdf, 533 KB)
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From
the Madhouse to the Warmth of Others, in aaina—A
mental health advocacy newsletter (India), Vol. 7 (2007),
No. 3, pp. 9-12
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Manage
or perish, or choosing to live without neuroleptic drugs:
Difficulties and chances. Lecture presented at the Congress:
"Manage or Perish: the Challenges of Managed Mental
Health Care in Europe", October 7-10, 1998, Psychiatric
Clinic of the University of Geneve
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Critical
Measures for a Political and Social Integration of (ex-)
Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. Lecture presented
at the conference: SOCIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH, October 19-20,
2007, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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The
medical model, diagnostics and treatment methods. Lecture
presented at the second European conference of users and
ex-users in mental health – The international people's
college (1994)
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How
to produce normality with electricity, in Phoenix
Rising – The Voice of the Psychiatrized (Toronto),
Vol. 7 (1988), No. 4
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Perspectives
of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. Lecture
presented at the Congress "Mental Health Promotion
on the European Agenda", January 15-16, 1998, Helsinki
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Formal
Previous-consent and Previous-rejection of Psychiatric Drugs
and Electroshocks – Theory and Practice of the Psychiatric
Will. Lecture presented at the Conference RESPONSABILITE,
DROITS ET PROTECTION DANS LE CHAMP DE LA SANTE MENTALE EN
EUROPE, Madrid, October 7-9, 1994
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Problems
at withdrawal from psychiatric drugs, Abstract 091,
in: "Manage or Perish? The Challenges of Managed Mental
Health Care in Europe. Geneva, 7th-10th October 1998, Centre
Médical Universitaire, Final Program", p. 95
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Promotion
of mental health and prevention of mental disorders by empowerment—Is
there a psychiatry-policy without meaningful participation
of (ex-) users/survivors of psychiatry?, in: Juha Lavikainen,
Eero Lahtinen & Ville Lehtinen (Eds.): "Proceedings of the
European Conference on Promotion of Mental Health and Social
Inclusion, 10-13 October 1999, Tampere, Finland" (Reports
of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 2001:3), Helsinki:
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 2001, pp. 108-110
/ unshortened
manuscript
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All
about PSY DREAM – Psychiatric Drug Registration, Evaluation
and All-inclusive Monitoring, in Epidemiologia e
psichiatria sociale, Vol. 14 (2005), No. 1, pp. 15-21
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"Progressive"
Psychiatry. Publisher J. F. Lehmann as Promoter of Social
Psychiatry under Fascism, in Changes – An International
Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy (1994)
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Review
of Ron Bassman's book The Fight to Be, in Journal
of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy ,
Vol. 7 (2007), No. 4, p. 264
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Review
of Linda Andre's book Doctors of Deception: What They
Don't Want You to Know About Shock, in Journal
of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy ,
Vol. 9 (2009), No. 4, pp. 231-232
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Three Interviews (in German with English subtitles) about
Personal experinces in the madhouse, self-help and the Berlin
Runaway-house (1),
Challenging
the medical model (2) and Experiences
in the antipsychiatric resistance in the course of the years
(3) on YouTube from June 2005
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A
Snapshot of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry on the International
Stage, in Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling
and Psychotherapy, Vol. 9 (2009), No. 1, pp. 32-42
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Treatment-induced
suicide. Suicidality as a potential effect of psychiatric
drugs. Paper for the conference Coping with stress
and depression related problems in Europe, organized
by the World Health Organization, the European Commission
and the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Public Health
and the Environment (Belgium), Brussels, October 25-27,
2001
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User-controlled
peer-coaching, in: Vesna Švab (Ed.): Proceedings of
the "International Conference on Mental Health Education
and Prevention, May 27-29, 2004, Hotel Perla, Nova Gorica,
Slovenia", Ljubljana: ŠENT 2004
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Variety
instead of stupidity: About the different positions within
the movement of (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry,
in Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 9 (2009), No. 4, pp. 197-204
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White
Paper on the protection of the human rights and dignity
of people suffering from mental disorder, especially those
placed as involuntary patients. Lecture presented at
the "European Conference on Mental Health 2001: Visibly
Improved, Improved Visibility", Rotterdam, March 2001
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World
Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) accepted
as authority by WFMH. Manuscript from August 27, 2997
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Lehmann, Peter / Kerstin Kempker: Unconventional
approaches to psychiatry, in Clinical Psychology Forum
(1993)
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Levine, Bruce: Thinking
Critically about Scientology, Psychiatry, and Their Feud,
in The Huffington Post, September 11, 2008
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Martensson, Lars: Should
neuroleptics be banned? Often re-published article of August
1984
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Mezzich, Juan E. (President
of the World Psychiatric Association): The
dialogal basis of our profession: Psychiatry with the Person
(text
as pdf), in World Psychiatry, 2007, October; 6(3):
129–130
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MIND-UK: Making
sense of coming off psychiatric drugs
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Mosher, Loren R.:
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Nettle, Mary:
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Newnes, Craig: Constructing
the Service User. The psychiatric system uses the term "service
user" to emphasize consumerism and voluntarism as if the people
being psychiatrized are using a service in the way they may
use banking or bus services—but they are not. In Clinical
Psychology, Vol. 50 (July 2005)
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Oaks, David:
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O'Hagan, Mary: Interview
from May 2005 about forced psychiatric treatment on YouTube
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Phoenix
Rising: The Voice of the Psychiatrized. Free download of
this magazine from the Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
(1980-1990)
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Schreiber Mosher, Judy:
Does Soteria Have Future? Lecture presented at the congress
"Soteria and No Restraint", Merano, Italy, November
21-23, 2007
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Smail, David: Critical
Psychology from PCCS Books
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Stastny, Peter:
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On
not having had the experience. Pioneer Dialogue at South
Florida State Hospital, January 31, 1992
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On
the life and death of Loren Mosher. Paper from September
20, 2004, distributed at the INTAR meeting "Understanding
Real Alternatives for People at Risk of Conventional Psychiatric
Treatment" on November 12-14, 2004, at Race Brook Lodge,
Western Massachusetts
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The
International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR)
(Google video). Lecture presented within the Symposium "Banned
by Bio-psychiatry: What Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
Really Want" (chaired by Peter Lehmann) at the congress
"Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry" (World Psychiatric
Association), Dresden 2007
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Stastny, Peter / Peter Lehmann (Eds.): Alternatives
beyond Psychiatry, book from 2007
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Sterling, Peter: Testimony
to the New York State Assembly about brain damage by electroconvulsive
"therapy" (2001)
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Vincent, Roy C.: Listening
to the Silences. Online book about hearing voices: "The
Author describes more than 25 years personal experience of voice
hearing and physical presence that are unquestionably the result
of spiritual intrusion into his mind and body – thereby
providing new and profound insights into the origins of 'schizophrenia',
and the most effective ways of helping voice hearers to regain
control over their minds and lives, and of helping carers, nurses
and psychiatric professionals to develop understanding."
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Webb, David:
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The
relationship between economic values and socio-cultural
values for helping us understand how to prevent suicide.
Keynote lecture at the WHO/EU Conference on Mental health
and suicidal behaviour in times of economic crisis,
Stockholm, October 2009
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Bridging
the spirituality gap, in Australian e-Journal for
the Advancement of Mental Health, Vol. 4 (2005); republished
in Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling
and Psychotherapy, Vol. 5 (2005), No. 4, pp. 201-212
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Depression:
a psychospiritual perspective. Paper from the conference
"Exclusion and Embrace – Conversations about Spirituality
and Disability" in Melbourne, Australia, October 18-21,
2001
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The
Many Languages of Suicide. Lecture presented at "Suicide
Prevention Australia" Conference, Sydney, June 2002;
originally published in New Paradim, the journal
of Vicserve,
Australia; republished in Journal of Critical Psychology,
Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 5 (2005), No. 3, pp.
145-150
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Self,
soul and spirit – Suicidology's blind-spots? Finding
meaning to sustain life: The place of spirituality in suicide
prevention. Paper from the Suicide Prevention Australia
(SPA) Conference – Brisbane, June 2003
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An
Interview with David Webb in New Paradigm, Winter
2009
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Weitz, Don: Electroshocking
elderly people: Another psychiatric abuse (unpublished manuscript)
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Whitaker, Robert:
In
the French language -
Itten, Theodor: Psychothérapie
au lieu de psychiatrie? Pas l'embarras du choix. En à jour! Aktuelles für
SPV-Mitglieder / Dernieres informations à l'intention des mebres ASP (2007) -
Lehmann, Peter: Théorie
et pratique du testament psychiatrique, Abstract, in: Comité Européen –
Droit, Ethique et Psychiatrie – C.E.D.E.P. (Seccion espanola): "Journees
d'etudes europeeennes – Responsabilité, droits et protection dans le champ
de la santé mentale en Europe", Programme for the the Conference "Responsabilité,
droits et protection dans le champ de la santé mentale en Europe", Madrid, October
7-9, 1994 -
Nettle, Mary: Les
besoins d'emploi des personnes ayant des troubles de santé mentale
(article from 1997) In the
Greek language -
Kempker, Kerstin: Σταματώντας τα ψυχοφάρμακα στο Σπίτι Φυγής -
Πέτερ Λέμαν:
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Η ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΔΙΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΚΙΝΗΣΕΩΝ ΑΥΤΟΒΟΗΘΕΙΑΣ
– ΑΝΘΡΩΠΩΝ ΜΕ ΨΥΧΩΣΙΚΗ ΕΜΠΕΙΡΙΑ.
Η ιστορία του «Ευρωπαϊκού Δικτύου πρώην χρηστών και επιζησάντων της ψυχιατρικής» (ENUSP).
In: Τετράδια Ψυχιατρικής
(2005) -
Επιζώντες της Ψυχιατρικής,,
in: Κοινωνία και Ψυχική Υγεία
(Society
& Mental Health), 2007, No. 3 -
Χρήστες και επιζώντες της ψυχιατρικής στο διεθνές προσκήνιο. Ένας απολογισμός,:
in
Κοινωνία και Ψυχική Υγεία
(Society & Mental Health), 2009, No. 10 -
ΑΥΤΟΒΟΗΘΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΝΔΥΝΑΜΩΣΗ,
in: Tetradia Psychiatrikis, 2007, No. 97, pp. 27-35 -
Ουσιαστικά Μέτρα για την Πολιτική και Κοινωνική Ένταξη των (πρώην)χρηστών και Επιζώντων της Ψυχιατρικής,
in: Κοινωνία και Ψυχική Υγεία,
(Society
& Mental Health), 2008, No. 6 -
von Trotha, Thilo:
Περί του αδύνατου της βίωσης μιας ψύχωσης, ή: τι δεν με βοηθάει, όταν τρελαίνομαι In
the Italian language In
the Norwegian language In
the Slovenijan language -
Lehmann, Peter: Kako
uporabniki izobražujejo druge uporabnike, in: Vesna Švab (Ed.): Proceedings
of the "International Conference on Mental Health Education and Prevention, 27-29
May 2004, Hotel Perla, Nova Gorica, Slovenia", Ljubljana: ŠENT 2004 In
the Spanish language In the Swedish language
- Engman, Tommy: Att
sluta med medicin, in revansch! – Riksförbundet för social
och mental hälsa, Argang 23 (2003), Nr. 1, pp. 14-15
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