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Peter Stastny / Peter Lehmann (Eds.)
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
 Soft
cover, 432 pages, 3 figures, 14,8 x 21 cm, British ISBN
978-0-9545428-1-8 / American ISBN 978-0-9788399-1-8.
Berlin · Eugene, OR (USA) · Shrewsbury (UK): Peter
Lehmann Publishing 2007. € 24.90 / $ 39.50 / £ 18.99 /
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Preface by Robert Whitaker
Publisher's information
The book highlights alternatives beyond psychiatry,
current possibilities of self-help for individuals experiencing
madness, and strategies toward implementing humane treatment.
61 authors—(ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry, therapists,
psychiatrists, lawyers, relatives, politicians and social
scientists from all continents—report about their alternative
work, their objectives and successes, their individual and
collective experiences.
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Content
Preface ..... 11
Robert Whitaker
Note about Liability ..... 13
Introduction ..... 15
Why Psychiatry Hurts More Than It Helps
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Introduction ..... 17
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Seventy Years
of Coercion in Psychiatric Institutions, Experienced and Witnessed
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Dorothea S. Buck-Zerchin
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The Illusion of Mental Illness ..... 29
Kate Millett
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Antipsychiatric Work by Relatives: Unrestrained Anger and Commitment
to Alternatives ..... 38
Uta Wehde
Actual Alternatives
General and Specific Beneficiaries of Alternative Approaches
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Introduction ..... 253
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Families: A Help or Hindrance in Recovery? ..... 254
Karyn Baker
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Choice and Diversity: Developing Real Alternatives for People
from Non-Western (and Western) Cultures ..... 260
Philip Thomas and Salma Yasmeen
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Troubled Children and Teens: Commonsense Solutions without
Psychiatric Drugs or Manipulations ..... 271
Bruce E. Levine
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When a Slice of Sausage Turns into a Lens-cleaning Cloth:
To Respect and Support People with Dementia ..... 281
Erich Schützendorf
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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
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Introduction ..... 297
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Personal Ombudsman in Skåne: A User-controlled Service with
Personal Agents ..... 299
Maths Jesperson
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PSYCHEX: A Swiss Experiment ..... 304
Peter Rippmann
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Money, Rights and Alternatives: Enforcing Legal Rights as
a Mechanism for Creating Non-medical Model Alternatives .....
308
James B. Gottstein
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Upholding Psychiatric Advance Directives: "The Rights
of a Flea" ..... 318
Laura Ziegler
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MindFreedom International: Activism for Human Rights as the
Basis for a Nonviolent Revolution in the Mental Health System
..... 328
David W. Oaks
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MindFreedom Ghana: Fighting for Basic Human Conditions of
Psychiatric Patients ..... 336
Dan Taylor
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User-led Research to Develop an Evidence Base for Alternative
Approaches ..... 342
Jan Wallcraft
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Preparing People for User Involvement Work in Health and
Social Care ..... 351
Andrew Hughes
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INTAR: The International Network Toward Alternatives and
Recovery ..... 359
Laurie Ahern, Peter Stastny and Chris Stevenson
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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
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Introduction ..... 381
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Psychiatry: Its Diagnostic Methods, Its Therapies, Its Power
..... 382
Marc Rufer
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Beyond Models, Beyond Paradigms: The Radical Interpretation
of Recovery ..... 400
Pat Bracken
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Reforms or Alternatives? A Better Psychiatry or Better Alternatives?
..... 402
Peter Lehmann and Peter Stastny
Appendix
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