Peter Lehmann: International link-list

Peter Lehmann	last update on January 16, 2010

Peter Lehmann's web site with world-wide links to organisations orientated to the interests of (ex-) users of psychiatry, their friends, supporting relatives and professionals

Warning! In spite of all care when installing links, I cannot guarantee for the correctness of the addresses nor the actual political or personal positions of the persons or groups on the list. See my disclaimer. User/survivor of psychiatry groups and other ones have different positions and perspectives. Trying out contact addresses is always at your own risk.

If you find links to groups paid by Big Pharma to make public relations for their campaigns and products, please give me a short note, I will delete these links also at once. I know from own experiences, media reports and reports of the bereaved, that a lot of people are harmed or do die from psychiatric treatment with toxic psychotropic substances which have been offered originally as helpful drugs and without warning of the real risks. If you find any links to groups who follow the ideology of electroshock and forced treatment, please give me a short note, I will delete these links at once, too. I know from own experiences and media reports which damage electroshock and forced psychiatric treatment (many psychiatric and parents' organisations and others who believe that human rights are dividable) may cause. If you find any connections to the Scientology sect by the organisations to which I have installed links, please give me a short note, I will delete these links at once, too. I know from media reports which damage the fans of the ideology of Ron Hubbard may cause.

World

International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery – INTAR: International group gathers to promote non-medical approaches to treating people diagnosed with mental illness
INTERVOICE – International Network for Training, Education and Research into Hearing Voices. "We understand 'voices' to be real and meaningful, something that are experienced by a significant minority of people, many of whom have no problems living with their voices. Research shows that to hear voices is not the consequence of a diseased brain, but more akin to a variation in human behaviour, like being left-handed. It is not so much the voices that are the problem, but the difficulties that some people have in coping with them. On this site we have provided information about ways of overcoming the difficulties faced by people who hear voices and information about the more positive aspects of the experience as well as the cultural and historical significance of this important variation in human behaviour."
MindFreedom International: A non-profit federation of 100 groups in 11 countries united to WIN human rights in the "mental health system". Address: MindFreedom, 454 Willamette, Suite 216, PO Box 11284, Eugene, OR 97440-3484, USA. Toll free order number: 1-877-MAD-PRIDE. Phone: (541) 345-9106 / Fax: (541) 345-3737 / eMail: office[at]mindfreedom.org
World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry – is an international organisation, advocates for human rights of users and survivors of psychiatry, speaks internationally for them, promotes their movement in every nation around the globe and links their organisations and individuals throughout the world

Asia

"Communication" – Selfhelp group. Aims: To combat stigma in Tajik society and to promote the change of the society's attitudes towards the mentally ill people. Objectives: empowerment, enlightment, advocacy, leasure. Contact address: Communication, c/o Jamshed Hakimov, Fedina Street 3, Appartment # 85, 734058 Dushanbe, Tajikistan, e-mail jamshedik2007[at]yahoo.com
Japan National Group of Mental Disabled People: consisting of only mental disease patients located all over Japan and fighting against the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare, evil mental hospitals, evil psychiatrists and all other discriminators against mental disease patients. P.O.Box No. 28, Kizuna-sha, Komatsu Post Office, 923-8691 Japan, Fax +81-761-24-1332, eMail: hanayumari[at]hotmail.com
JAPAN WNUSP NETWORK, c/o JHC SUNMARINA, 2-31-13, kamiitabashi, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 174-0076 Japan

Australia / Oceania

Mad Pride Wardrobe, buy your Batty is Beautiful Shirt. Proceeds go towards financial support for education & training initiatives conducted by people with psychiatric diagnoses
Patients Rights Advocacy (Waikato) Inc. New Zealand: "For those who want to promote their own rights and the rights of others to mental wellness and choice. Some people who use this site have found psychiatric drugs and/or ECT less than helpful (understatement) and we would like to see real changes and choices in the way that people given the label of patient or consumer, and those who choose the label 'survivor' are treated by the Mental Health System"

Europe