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Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry
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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. |
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 Actual Alternatives 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
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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
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