| Kerstin Kempker & Peter Lehmann (Eds.) 
Soft cover, 384 pages, published in the German language, ISBN 3-925931-07-4.
Berlin: Peter Lehmann Publishing 1993. Completely sold out.
Totally new edition in German
("Statt Psychiatrie 2") and English
("Alternatives beyond Psychiatry") edited by Peter Stastny
& Peter Lehmann, 2007
Contents | More about Peter Lehmann & Kerstin Kempker | More information in the German language | home | back to previous page 50 survivors of psychiatry from all over the world, lawyers, medical practioners, therapists, psychiatrists, relatives, politicans and social scientists report about their humanistic antipsychiatric work, their objectives and successes, their alliances and difficulties, wishes and experiences. The book reflects the possibilites of self-help and alternatives, today already existing, in case of acute madness. September 28, 1993 Dear Madam, dear Sir, I want to inform you about the new book "Statt Psychiatrie" (= "Instead of Psychiatry"), just published. You gave me the permission (see back-side of this letter) to translate and publish an article of your magazine for this book. Thank you very much! I would like it, if you tell your readers about this book, that will change the psychiatric scene. Specially with the model-text of the Psychiatric testament (antipsychiatric will) , written by the lawyers Peter Rudel and Hubertus Rolshoven, the book shows a way to protect yourself legally binding against forced psychiatric ›treatment‹ and to teach psychiatrists to fear from demands for recourse and from criminal prosecution. 50 lawyers, medical practioners, therapists, psychiatrists, relatives, politicans, social scientists, and survivors of psychiatry from all over the world report about their antipsychiatric work, their objectives and successes, their alliances and difficulties, wishes and experiences. The book reflects the possibilites of self-help, today already existing, even in case of acute madness. The natural healer Anna Ochsenknecht presents the first time naturopath support in case of psychic problems and withdrawal from psychopharmaceutics. Jeffrey Masson, former psychoanalyst and director of the Sigmund-Freud-Archives, puts attention on the danger of (ab)use of power within normal psychotherapy. Former issues: "When the children's psychiatrist comes...", "Elderly against psychiatry: guardianship and pills or own will", "Ethical codex of feministic therapy", "Mad genes: psychiatry in the era of gene-technology", "On the way to a ban of electroshock" etc. "Instead of Psychiatry" makes transparent the psychiatric special laws in the German-speaking countries for victims and relatives and shows, which paragraphs can be used to defend the right of self-determination. Kate Millett, author of "Sexus and Power", discovers the job-political and financial interests, which are hidden behind the expansion of the medical model. Inside their chapter "Wege zum Ausstieg aus der Psychiatrie" (= "Ways to bail out of psychiatry") Don Weitz (psychologist and survivor in Toronto), Peter Stastny (psychiatrist in New York and Vienna) and Peter Lehmann (survivor and author of "Der chemische Knebel" [= "The Chemical Muzzle"] ) draw the conclusions from the systematically psychiatric misuse of power; only strong rights of victims and survivors of psychiatry and financial ressoures for autonomous selfhelp groups and antipsychiatric organisations give a chance to alter the conditions in a positive way. Sincerely yours Introduction
Antipsychiatry, medicine, therapy
Antipsychiatry, law, injustice
Antipsychiatric selfhelp
Antipsychiatry, politics
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