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

Reduction & discontinuation of prescribed psychotropic drugs

Lehmann, Peter: "Coming off psychiatric drugs". Antidepressants, neuroleptics ("antipsychotics"), phase prophylactics & mood stabilizers, psychostimulants, tranquilizers, websites, blogs, mailinglists, books, articles, Lectures, videos, booklets, training etc. Online ressource https://peter-lehmann.de/ex.htm
Aderhold, Volkmar / Lehmann, Peter / Rufer, Marc / Zehentbauer, Josef (2025): "Discontinuing psychotropic drugs? And if so, how?" (pp. 457-471). In: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): "Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs". Updated e-book edition. Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing. Print edition: Lancaster: Egalitarian Publishing 2023, pp. 137-146
Kaufmann, Markus / Lehmann, Peter (2025): "Overdue medical assistance in coming off antidepressants and neuroleptics" (pp. 30-60). In: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): "Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs". E-book edition. Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing. Updated e-book edition. Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing. Print edition: Lancaster: Egalitarian Publishing 2023, pp. 137-146
Lehmann, Peter (2025): "Relapse into life" (pp. 85-95). In: Peter Lehmann (ed.): "Coming off psychiatric drugs – Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, Ritalin and tranquilizers". Updated e-book edition. Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing. Print editon with the title "Coming off psychiatric drugs: Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, lithium, carbamazepine and tranquilizers" in 2004, pp. 47-56
Lehmann, Peter (2025): "And now, how to proceed? A resume" (pp. 353-398). In: Peter Lehmann (ed.): "Coming off psychiatric drugs – Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, Ritalin and tranquilizers". Updated e-book edition. Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing. Print editon with the title "Coming off psychiatric drugs: Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, lithium, carbamazepine and tranquilizers" in 2004, pp. 309-319
Lehmann, Peter (2025): "For and against dependence on antidepressants and neuroleptics: Who benefits?" (pp. 80-132). In: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): "Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs". Updated e-book edition. Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing. Print edition. Lancaster: Egalitarian Publishing 2023, pp. 45-76]
Lehmann, Peter (2020): Review of the book "Deprescribing in psychiatry" by Swapnil Gupta, Rebecca Miller & John D. Cahill [2019]. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 112-114. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/lehmann-review-gupta.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (2018): "Teaching withdrawal from antipsychotics and antidepressants to professionals and recipients" (pp. 148-169). Text, proofread by Routledge, in: Craig Newnes & Laura Golding (eds.): "Teaching critical psychology: International perspectives". London & New York: Routledge. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/lehmann-teaching-withdrawal.pdf (pre-production version)

Lehmann, Peter (2014): "Two contradictory sides of recovery and psychosocial rehabilitation". In: WAPR e-bulletin (Digital edition of the Bulletin of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation), No. 35, pp. 7-12. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/lehmann_recovery.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (2013): Review of the book "Psychiatric drug withdrawal. A guidebook for prescribers, therapists, patients, and their families" by Peter R. Breggin [2012]. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 130-132. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/lehmann-review-breggin.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (2013): "Recovery by taking psychiatric drugs versus recovery by coming off psychiatric drugs". In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 167-187. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/recovery-from.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (November 16, 2011): "Coming off psychiatric drugs: Problems and opportunities". Video documentation of the keynote lecture / PowerPoint presentation to the Third Annual Recovery Conference "Medicating Human Distress: Concerns, Critiques and Solutions". Organized by the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery and School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland, in association with Critical Voices Network Ireland. University College Cork, Ireland. Online resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qxNqgthCsM / Questions and answers: http://panopto.ucc.ie/Panopto/Content/Sessions/331e211f-e187-4412-9927-89dd535fab98/b1f9c82e-fcec-46db-b910-cda9a751ebba-93c52311-39a7-4806-a8af-435a934afaf1.mp4

Lehmann, Peter (2010): "How to withdraw from psychiatric drugs". In: Asylum – The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 29-31. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/asylum_2010.pdf

Lehmann, Peter (2007): "Recovery and 'alternatives to psychiatry' book" (pp. 9-10). In: Social Perspectives Network (ed.): "Whose recovery is it anyway", paper 11. London: Social Perspectives Network. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/recovery.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (2005): "Psychiatric drug dependency". Published by OpenMind with the misleading title "Psychiatric drug addiction" in: OpenMind – the mental health magazine, no. 132, p. 23. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/addiction.pdf

Lehmann, Peter (2001): "Coming off neuroleptics" (pp. 81-91). In: Craig Newnes, Guy Holmes & Cailzie Dunn (eds.): "This is madness too: Critical perspectives on mental health services". Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books. Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/lehmann-comingoff-neuroleptics.pdf

Lehmann, Peter (1998): "Withdrawal symptoms connected with cessation of psychiatric drugs" (pp. 73-80). 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/cessation.pdf

Lehmann, Peter (1998): "Problems at withdrawal from psychiatric drugs" (p. 75). Abstract for the lecture from October 10, 1998 within the symposium "Patients neglected by managed care", led by Fritz A. Henn, to the international meeting "Manage or perish? Challenges of managed mental health care in Europe". In: "Manage or perish? Challenges of managed mental health care in Europe. Geneva, Centre Médical Universitaire, Final Program". Online resource https://www.peter-lehmann-publishing.com/articles/lehmann/pdf/manage-problems-withdrawal-1998.pdf

Articles by further authors

Chamberlin, Judi (2025), Preface (pp. 13-15). In: Peter Lehmann (ed.): "Coming off psychiatric drugs – Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, Ritalin and tranquilizers". Updated e-book edition. Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing. Print editon with the title "Coming off psychiatric drugs: Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, lithium, carbamazepine and tranquilizers" in 2004, pp. 11-13
Copeland, Mary Ellen: Using the Wellness Recovery Action Plan to withdraw from psychiatric medications. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 20 (2020), No. 4 (Special edition: "Withdrawal from prescribed drugs", edited by Peter Lehmann), pp. 76-86. And in: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs, updated e-book edition, Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2025, pp. 471-485. Print edition, Lancaster: Egalitarian Publishing 2023, pp. 258-268
Cortez, Susanne: And finally atypically careful. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 20 (2020), No. 4 (Special edition: "Withdrawal from prescribed drugs", edited by Peter Lehmann), pp. 107-111. And in: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs, updated e-book edition, Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2025, pp. 355-361. And in: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs, updated e-book edition, Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2023, pp. 471-485. Print edition, Lancaster: Egalitarian Publishing 2023, pp. 253-257
Emmanouelidou, Anna: The Observatory for Mental Health Rights: Cooperative support in withdrawal. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 20 (2020), No. 4 (Special edition: "Withdrawal from prescribed drugs", edited by Peter Lehmann), pp. 51-54. And in: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs, updated e-book edition, Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2025, pp. 297-308. And in: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs, updated e-book edition, Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2023, pp. 471-485. Print edition, Lancaster: Egalitarian Publishing 2023, pp. 211-219
Freitas, Fernando / Mota, Fábio / Braga, Luiza Amara Maciel / Motta, Camila: Attitudes of researchers about discontinuation of psychopharmacological treatment. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 20 (2020), No. 4, pp. 55-65. And in: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs, updated e-book edition, Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2023, pp. 58-75. . And in: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs, updated e-book edition, Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2023, pp. 471-485. Print edition, Lancaster: Egalitarian Publishing 2023, pp. 30-41
Gold, Ilse: After discharge. In: Peter Lehmann (ed.): Coming off psychiatric drugs (2004; e-book 2025)
Lahti, Pirkko (2025): Preface (pp. 15-17). In: Peter Lehmann (ed.): "Coming off psychiatric drugs – Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, Ritalin and tranquilizers". Updated e-book edition. Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing. Print editon with the title "Coming off psychiatric drugs: Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, lithium, carbamazepine and tranquilizers" in 2004, pp. 13-15
Mosher, Loren R. (2025): Preface (pp. 11-13) . In: Peter Lehmann (ed.): "Coming off psychiatric drugs – Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, Ritalin and tranquilizers". Updated e-book edition. Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing. Print editon with the title "Coming off psychiatric drugs: Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, lithium, carbamazepine and tranquilizers" in 2004, pp. 15-17
Redig, Erwin: A mental struggle. How I stopped the use of psychiatric drugs. In: Peter Lehmann (ed.): Coming off psychiatric drugs (2004), pp. 290-297
Richman, David L.: Dr. Caligari reflects back and looks forward. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 20 (2020), No. 4 (Special edition: "Withdrawal from prescribed drugs", edited by Peter Lehmann), pp. 7-13.. And in: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs, updated e-book edition, Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2025, pp. 10-16. Print edition, Lancaster: Egalitarian Publishing 2023, pp. III-VII
Schlimme, Jann E. / Schwartz, Michael A.: Highlighting individuality – Reduction of psychopharmaca requires individual prescriptions during individual recovery. In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 20 (2020), No. 4 (Special edition: "Withdrawal from prescribed drugs", edited by Peter Lehmann). pp. 21-30. And in: Peter Lehmann & Craig Newnes (eds.): Withdrawal from prescribed psychotropic drugs, updated e-book edition, Berlin & Lancaster: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2025. , pp. 10-15. Print edition, Lancaster: Egalitarian Publishing 2023, pp. 173-182

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