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Peter Stastny / Peter Lehmann (Eds.)
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry

Content

Preface ..... 11
Robert Whitaker

Note about Liability ..... 13

Introduction ..... 15

Why Psychiatry Hurts More Than It Helps

• Introduction ..... 17

• Seventy Years of Coercion in Psychiatric Institutions, Experienced and Witnessed ..... 19
  Dorothea S. Buck-Zerchin

• The Illusion of Mental Illness ..... 29
  Kate Millett

• Antipsychiatric Work by Relatives: Unrestrained Anger and Commitment to Alternatives ..... 38
  Uta Wehde

• Introduction ..... 41

• A. Individual Strategies with and without Professional Support

  • What Helps Me if I Go Mad? With Contributions by Ludger Bruckmann, Chris Hansen, Andy Smith, Sarah Carr, Alfred Hausotter, Merinda Epstein, Harold A. Maio, Agnes Beier, Peter Lehmann, Zoran Solomun, Ursula Zingler, David Webb, Tina Coldham and Constance Dollwet ..... 44
    Peter Lehmann

  • How We Discovered the Soteria Principle ..... 75
    Regina Bellion

  • Depression and the Use of Natural Healing Methods ..... 83
    Bhargavi Davar

  • Running from the Crisis ..... 90
    Ulrich Bartmann

  • Advance Directives: A Step towards Self-help ..... 97
    Miriam Krücke

• B. Organized Self-help

  • Survival, the Art of Living and Knowledge to Pass on: Recovery, Empowerment and Experiential Expertise of Persons with Severe Mental Health Problems ..... 105
    Wilma Boevink

  • Reclaiming Mad Experience: Establishing Unusual Belief Groups and Evolving Minds Public Meetings ..... 117
    Rufus May

  • The Voices Accompany My Life ..... 128
    Hannelore Klafki

  • INTERVOICE: Accepting and Making Sense of Hearing Voices ..... 131
    Marius Romme and Sandra Escher

  • The Icarus Project: Dangerous Gifts, Iridescent Visions and Mad Community ..... 137
    Maryse Mitchell-Brody

• C. Models of Professional Support

  • Soteria: An Alternative Mental Health Reform Movement ..... 146
    Volkmar Aderhold, Peter Stastny and Peter Lehmann

  • Hotel Magnus Stenbock: A User-controlled House in Helsingborg, Sweden ..... 161
    Maths Jesperson

  • The Windhorse Project ..... 168
    Michael Herrick, Anne Marie DiGiacomo and Scott Welsch

  • The Crisis Hostel: Findings from a Consumer/Survivor-defined Alternative to Psychiatric Hospitalization ..... 179
    Jeanne Dumont and Kristine Jones

  • Finding Common Strength Together: The Berlin Runaway House ..... 188
    Petra Hartmann and Stefan Bräunling

  • Second Opinion Society: Without Psychiatry in the Yukon ..... 199
    Gisela Sartori

  • Trauma-informed Peer Run Crisis Alternatives ..... 210
    Shery Mead

  • A Sicilian Way to Antipsychiatry: La Cura ..... 217
    Giuseppe Bucalo

  • Open Dialogues ..... 223
    Jaakko Seikkula and Birgitta Alakare

  • Psychotherapy Instead of Psychiatry? A No-brainer ..... 240
    Theodor Itten

General and Specific Beneficiaries of Alternative Approaches

• Introduction ..... 253

• Families: A Help or Hindrance in Recovery? ..... 254
  Karyn Baker

• Choice and Diversity: Developing Real Alternatives for People from Non-Western (and Western) Cultures ..... 260
  Philip Thomas and Salma Yasmeen

• Troubled Children and Teens: Commonsense Solutions without Psychiatric Drugs or Manipulations ..... 271
  Bruce E. Levine

• When a Slice of Sausage Turns into a Lens-cleaning Cloth: To Respect and Support People with Dementia ..... 281
  Erich Schützendorf

• The Shame of "Not Being a Man": Experiences of Gay, Straight and Bisexual Men ..... 288
  Guy Holmes and Geoff Hardy

Realizing Alternatives and Humane Treatment

• Introduction ..... 297

• Personal Ombudsman in Skåne: A User-controlled Service with Personal Agents ..... 299
  Maths Jesperson

• PSYCHEX: A Swiss Experiment ..... 304
  Peter Rippmann

• Money, Rights and Alternatives: Enforcing Legal Rights as a Mechanism for Creating Non-medical Model Alternatives ..... 308
  James B. Gottstein

• Upholding Psychiatric Advance Directives: "The Rights of a Flea" ..... 318
  Laura Ziegler

• MindFreedom International: Activism for Human Rights as the Basis for a Nonviolent Revolution in the Mental Health System ..... 328
  David W. Oaks

• MindFreedom Ghana: Fighting for Basic Human Conditions of Psychiatric Patients ..... 336
  Dan Taylor

• User-led Research to Develop an Evidence Base for Alternative Approaches ..... 342
  Jan Wallcraft

• Preparing People for User Involvement Work in Health and Social Care ..... 351
  Andrew Hughes

• INTAR: The International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery ..... 359
  Laurie Ahern, Peter Stastny and Chris Stevenson

• Self-help, Difference in Opinion and User Control in the Age of the Internet ..... 366
  Peter Lehmann and Maths Jesperson

Why We Need Alternatives to Psychiatry

• Introduction ..... 381

• Psychiatry: Its Diagnostic Methods, Its Therapies, Its Power ..... 382
  Marc Rufer

• Beyond Models, Beyond Paradigms: The Radical Interpretation of Recovery ..... 400
  Pat Bracken

• Reforms or Alternatives? A Better Psychiatry or Better Alternatives? ..... 402
  Peter Lehmann and Peter Stastny

Appendix

• Index ..... 413

• About the Authors ..... 418

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