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Achievement of Full Human Rights and Appropriate Support for People with Emotional Distress and Psychiatric Diagnoses

Psychiatry, humanistic anti-psychiatry, justice & injustice

  • Lehmann, Peter (November 2, 2023): "Informal psychiatric human rights violations: Psychiatric micro-political psychiatric abuse through deliberate misinformation about dependency risks of psychotropic drugs and through withholding of support in their withdrawal". Manuscript for the lecture to "Political Abuse of Psychiatry: Ongoing Cases Worldwide", organized by the Medical Anthropology Research Center of the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/lehmann-psychiatric-abuse.pdf

  • Lehmann, Peter (March 7, 2001): "A blatant threat to human rights from the Steering Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe. Protest against the 'White Paper on the protection of the human rights and dignity of people suffering from mental disorder, especially those placed as involuntary patients'". Lecture within the session "Civil Right: the White paper", together with Jean Claus and Paul Schnabel to the "European Conference on Mental Health 2001: Visibly Improved, Improved Visibility", organized by Mental Health Europe – the European Section of the World Federation for Mental Health. Conference Centre 'De Doelen', Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/rotterdam.htm

  • Lehmann, Peter (December 31, 2005): "Action Project against 'Harassment and Discrimination Faced by People with Mental Health Problems in the Field of Health Services'", organized in the framework of the "'Community Action Programme to Combat Discrimination in 2001-2006' with support from the European Union", co-organized by ENUSP (European Network of [ex-] Users and Survivors of Psychiatry – represented by Peter Lehmann). Survey page. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/enusp/harassment.htm
  • Lehmann, Peter (March 7, 2001): "A blatant threat to human rights from the Steering Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe. Protest against the 'White Paper on the protection of the human rights and dignity of people suffering from mental disorder, especially those placed as involuntary patients'". Lecture within the session "Civil Right: the White paper", together with Jean Claus and Paul Schnabel to the "European Conference on Mental Health 2001: Visibly Improved, Improved Visibility", organized by Mental Health Europe – the European Section of the World Federation for Mental Health. Conference Centre 'De Doelen', Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/rotterdam.htm
  • Lehmann, Peter (March 6, 2001): "About the 'Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member states to ensure the protection of the human rights and dignity of people with mental disorder, especially those placed as involuntary patients in a psychiatric establishment'". Collection of materials. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/enusp/wp-history.htm
  • Lehmann, Peter (2001): "Promotion of mental health and prevention of mental disorders by empowerment: Is there a psychiatry-policy without meaningful participation of (ex-) users/survivors of psychiatry?" (pp. 108-110). In: Juha Lavikainen, Eero Lahtinen & Ville Lehtinen (eds.): "Proceedings of the European Conference on Promotion of Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 10-13 October 1999, Tampere, Finland" (Reports of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 2001:3. Helsinki: Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/tampere_short.pdf
  • Lehmann, Peter (2000): "Manage or perish? Or chosing to live without neuroleptic drugs?" (pp. 469-474). Manuscript without Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers permission to upload. Text, proofread by Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, published in: José Guimón & Norman Sartorius (eds.): "Manage or perish? The challenges of managed mental health care in Europe". New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London & Moscow: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/manage-perish.htm
  • Lehmann, Peter (1999): "Psychiatric emergency-treatment: Help against one's will or action of professional violence?" (pp. 95-104). In: Michel De Clercq, Antonio Andreoli, Suzanne Lamarre & Peter Forster (eds.): "Emergency psychiatry in a changing world". Proceedings of the 5th World Congress of the International Association for Emergency Psychiatry (Excerpta Medica International Congress Series No. 1179). Amsterdam, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, Shannon, Singapore & Tokyo: Elsevier. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/emergency.htm
  • Lehmann, Peter (1999): "Commentary to: WHO quality assurance in mental health care – 'Draft. Human rights of people with mental disorders'". In: "Forum – The Declaration of Madrid and current psychiatric practice: Users' and advocates' views". In: Current Opinion in Psychiatry, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 6-7. DOI: 10.1097/00001504-199901000-00005. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/curr_opinion.htm
  • Lehmann, Peter (1998): "Remarks and points to be added to the Declaration of Madrid (World Psychiatric Association)" (pp. 159-162). In: Lars Martensson with participation of Peter Lehmann: "Deprived of our humanity. The case against neuroleptic drugs". Genève: The Voiceless Movement, Association écrivains, poètes. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/remarks.pdf
  • Lehmann, Peter (1998): "Perspectives of (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry" (pp. 63-68). In: Eero Lahtinen (ed.): "Mental Health Promotion on the European Agenda. Report from a Consultative Meeting, 15-16 January 1998, Helsinki, Finland" ("Themes from Finland", No. 4/1998). Helsinki: STAKES Publications. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/perspectives.htm
  • Lehmann, Peter for the European Network of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (April 24, 1997): "Comment to: Quality assurance in mental health care, draft. 'Human rights of people with mental disorders'". Open letter to Dr. J. M. Bertolote, WHO, Geneve. Online publication https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/who_comment.htm

Articles by further authors

  • Action Project against "Harassment and Discrimination Faced by People with Mental Health Problems in the Field of Health Services", organized in the framework of the "'Community Action Programme to Combat Discrimination in 2001-2006' with support from the European Union" (2005): "Recommendations to combat harassment and discrimination in health and mental health services" by Mental Health Europe, LUCAS (Belgium), Pro Mente Salzburg (Austria), MIND (England & Wales), Clientenbond (The Netherlands), FEAFES (Confederación Española de Agrupaciones de Familiares y Personas con Enfermedad Mental – Spain), BPE (Bundesverband Psychiatrie-Erfahrener e.V. – Germany) and ENUSP (European Network of [ex-] Users and Survivors of Psychiatry). Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/enusp/recommendations.htm

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