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• Lehmann, Peter (April 23, 2025): "In the interview 'I lost my fear and won everything'" with Tiago Pires Marques on February 27, 2017, then updated for "Mad in America". Online publication https://www.madinamerica.com/2025/04/interview-with-german-activist-peter-lehmann-i-lost-my-fear-and-gained-everything/

• Lehmann, Peter (2019): "Peter Lehmann's story". In: Michael A. Susko (ed.): "Transformational stories: Voices for true healing in mental health". Kindle e-book, ASIN: B083JM8W6X, Baltimore: AllrOneofUs Publishing. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/lehmann-susko-story.pdf / https://www.allroneofus.com/transformational-stories.html

• Lehmann, Peter (2019): Review of the book "Dear Luise. A story of power and powerlessness in Denmark's psychiatric care system" by Dorrit Cato Christensen [2012]. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 19, No. 3, p. 205. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/cato-christensen.pdf

• Lehmann, Peter (April 5, 2017): "Congratulation to Dorothea Buck's 100^th birthday on April 5, 2017". Online publication https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/dorothea-buck_birthday100.pdf

• Lehmann, Peter (April 5, 2017): "Celebrating Dorothea Buck's 100^th birthday". Contribution for "Mad in America – Science, Psychiatry and Community". Online publication https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/04/dorothea-bucks-100th-birthday/

• Lehmann, Peter (2017): "Irreconcilable memory culture in psychiatry. Congratulation to Dorothea Buck's 100^th birthday". In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 112-120. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/dorothea-buck-jcpcp.pdf

• Lehmann, Peter (2014): "Are users and survivors of psychiatry only allowed to speak about their personal narratives?" (pp. 98-104). Translation by Manfred Böhmer. In: John Z. Sadler, Cornelius Werendly (Werdie) Van Staden & Kenneth William Musgrave (Bill) Fulford (eds.): "The Oxford Handbook of psychiatric ethics". Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/only-allowed.pdf

• Lehmann, Peter (2012): "A liberated psychiatry?" in: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 75-81. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/thessa-thanks.pdf / Plus correction in: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 12 (2012), No. 3, p. 124. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/thessa-thanks-corr.pdf

• Lehmann, Peter (2011): Review of the book "Tincture of time – Living through grief to hope" by Judy Schreiber-Mosher [2010]. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 117-118. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/mosher-schreiber-review.pdf

• Lehmann, Peter (September 28, 2010): "Expression of Gratitude on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctoral Degree by the School of Psychology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), September 28, 2010". Speech not held at the award of the honorary doctorate. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/honorary-doctor.pdf

• Lehmann, Peter (October 13, 2010): "About the awarding of an Honorary Doctoral Degree to Peter Lehmann by the School of Psychology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Faculty of Philosophy, September 28, 2010". Collection of materials. Online-Ressource https://peter-lehmann.de/drhc-e.htm

• Lehmann, Peter (2007): Review of the book "A fight to be: Psychologist's experience from both sides of the locked door" by Ronald Bassman [2007]. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 7 (2007), No. 4, p. 264. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/bassman-review.pdf

• Lehmann, Peter(2007): Interviewed by Carolyn Davies about the history of the Runaway-house Berlin, resistance and self-organisation on May 25, 2005. In: Carolyn Davies: "Visions", Vol. 2, DVD, Spring Hill: Queensland Alliance. Online information at https://peter-lehmann.de/images/visions-cover.jpg

Lehmann, Peter (2007): "From the madhouse to the warmth of others". In: aaina – A mental health advocacy newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 9-11. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/aaina.pdf

Articles by further authors

• Bairaktaris, Kostas: Praise to the honoured on the occasion of the awarding of an honorary doctoral degree to Peter Lehmann

• Boevink, Wilma: Living with a psychiatric disability – Survival, life-art and lessons to be passed

• Boevink, Wilma: Two sides of recovery. Lecture to the 10th Triptych Congress, Roermond (Netherlands), November 14, 2002

• Boevink, Wilma / Hans Kroon: Living with a psychiatric disability – Lessons to learn and to pass (2005)

• Boevink, Wilma: From alien to actor. Lecture held during The Public Hearing on The Green Paper on Mental Health, European Parliament, Brussels, June 8, 2006

• De Wyze, Jeannette: Still crazy after all those years – Local shrink assails the schizophrenia racket – a biography of Loren R. Mosher's evolution as a critic of psychiatry's current beliefs and practices and the consequences it has had for his professional life

• Gombos, Gábor: How to deny a psychiatric family history. In: Peter Lehmann (ed.), Coming off Psychiatric Drugs Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, ritalin and tranquilizers. Berlin: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2004 (e-book 2025)

• Jändke, Lothar: Personal motivation for my antipsychiatric acting. In: Kerstin Kempker & Peter Lehmann (eds.): Statt Psychiatrie (Instead of psychiatry) (1993)

• Kuypers, Jan: Don Quixote and the drug-free zone or: What now, little Jumping Jack? In: Peter Lehmann (ed.): Coming off psychiatric drugs – Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, lithium, carbamazepine and tranquilizers

• Stastny, Peter: On not having had the experience. Pioneer Dialogue at South Florida State Hospital, January 31, 1992

• Verhaegh, Jan: Not on the Agenda: Clients and psychiatry in Central Europe. Reflective journey through Central Europe in December 2004

Last updated on December 8, 2025