Peter Stastny / Peter Lehmann (eds.)
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry. The great book of alternatives to psychiatry
around the world. E-book
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About the Book
The great book of alternatives to psychiatry around the world. The book highlights alternatives beyond psychiatry, current possibilities for self-help for individuals experiencing madness or depression, and strategies toward implementing humane treatment. Sixty-one authors – (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry, therapists, psychiatrists, lawyers, social scientists and relatives from all five continents – report about their alternative work, their objectives and successes, and their individual and collective experiences.
These are some of the questions, which are addressed by the authors: What helps me if I go mad or depressive? How can I find trustworthy help for a relative or a friend in need? How can I protect myself from coercive treatment? As a family member or friend, how can I help? What should I do if I can no longer bear to work in the mental health field? What are the alternatives to psychiatry? How can I get involved in creating alternatives? Assuming psychiatry would be abolished, what do you propose instead?
Introductions to the book's main chapters
Why psychiatry hurts more than it helps
General and specific beneficiaries of alternative approaches
Realizing alternatives and humane treatment
Why we need alternatives to psychiatry
About the Editors
Peter
Stastny (right) was born in Vienna, Austria, where he graduated
from medical school in 1976. Since 1978, he has been working and residing
in New York City. Taught at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
in the Bronx until 2009 and has conducted several publically funded
research projects in the area of vocational rehabilitation, social support
and self-help, in collaboration with individuals who had survived personal
crises and psychiatric interventions. Currently, Dr. Stastny is working
on the development of alternative services that obviate psychiatric
intervention and offer autonomous paths towards recovery and full integration.
These activities have engendered a close collaboration with the user-survivor
movement, as manifested by joint research projects, publications, service
demonstrations, and community work. He is a founding member of the International
Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR). More
about Peter Stastny