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Self-advocacy, self-help & alternatives to psychiatry

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 (2023): "The bright and the dark side of the self-help movement. Ambivalent experiences from almost half a century of involvement in non- and antipsychiatric self-organization and self-help in Germany". In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 26-36. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/pdf/bright-and-dark-side.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (2019): "Paradigm shift: Treatment alternatives to psychiatric drugs, with particular reference to low- and middle-income countries" (pp. 251-269). Text, proofread by Routledge, published in: Laura Davidson (ed.): "The Routledge Handbook of International Development, Mental Health and Wellbeing". London & New York: Routledge. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/pdf/sdg3.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (2014): "Facebook friends and other enemies". In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 37-43. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/pdf/facebookfriends.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (July 27, 2010): "Whose defamation? Whose insult? Whose shame? About the indifference of the Berlin Runaway House organisation towards its staff-member Jan Groth's cybermobbing and defamation of Judi Chamberlin". Online publication https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/combatting-the-defamation-of-judi-chamberlin.htm
Lehmann, Peter (2010): "Soteria: As viewed by (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry". In: Asylum – The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 11-13. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/pdf/asylum_soteria.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (2009): "Variety instead of stupidity: About the different positions within the movement of (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry". In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 197-204. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/variety.htm
Lehmann, Peter (2009): "A snapshot of users and survivors of psychiatry on the international stage". In: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 32-42. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/pdf/inter2008e.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (November 7, 2008): "A snapshot of users and survivors of psychiatry on the international stage". Unabridged text. Online publication https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/pdf/inter2008.pdf
Lehmann, Peter / Stålström, Olli / Riabova, Olga / Kostrovsky, Yakov / Verhaegh, Jan / Yamamoto, Mari / Laurent, Dominique / Bonde Henriksen, David (2007): "Vejle Declaration: How we propose to deal with each other" (pp. 377-378). In: Peter Stastny & Peter Lehmann (eds.): "Alternatives beyond psychiatry". Berlin, Eugene & Shrewsbury: Peter Lehmann Publishing, pp. 366-380. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/enusp/vejle-declaration.htm
Lehmann, Peter / Jesperson, Maths (2007): "Self-help, difference in opinion and user control in the age of the Internet" (pp. 366-380). In: Peter Stastny & Peter Lehmann (eds.): "Alternatives beyond psychiatry". Berlin, Eugene & Shrewsbury: Peter Lehmann Publishing
Stastny, Peter / Lehmann, Peter (2007): "What helps me if I go mad?" (pp. 44-75). In: Peter Stastny & Peter Lehmann (eds.): "Alternatives beyond psychiatry". Berlin, Eugene & Shrewsbury: Peter Lehmann Publishing
Lehmann, Peter (November 15, 2007): "The particular elements of Soteria from the perspective of (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry". Manuscript for the lecture to the congress "Soteria and No Restraint", November 21-23, 2007. Hospital "Franz Tappeiner" and Casa Basaglia Haus, Sinigo Merano, Italy. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/soteria.htm
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://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/pdf/recovery.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (2007): "What helps me if I go mad?" (pp. 63-65). In: Peter Lehmann & Peter Stastny: "What helps me if I go mad?" (pp. 44-75). In: Peter Stastny & Peter Lehmann (eds.): "Alternatives beyond psychiatry". Berlin, Eugene & Shrewsbury: Peter Lehmann Publishing

"The Word of the Blocked (May 11, 2015). With the participation of Ludger Bruckmann & Peter Lehmann at the video documentation directed by Yorgos Keramidiotis. Σκηνοθεσία: Γιώργος Κεραμιδιώτης. Online resource https://youtu.be/Q8j9Y26LbAE

Lehmann, Peter (December 1, 2004): "The Political Dimension of the Self-help Movement of People with Psychotic Experiences". Manuscript for the lecture to the Symposium "Self and mutual help of persons with psychotic experience: An alternative approach on the issue of life quality in a society", organized by Anna Emmanouelidou within the 1st International Conference-Quality of Life and Psychology, 3-5 December 2004, run by the Psychological Society of Northern Greece at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Psychology, Greece. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/selfhelp.htm
Lehmann, Peter (2004): "User-controlled peer coaching" (p. 91). Abstract of the lecture to the "International conference on mental health education and prevention". In: Vesna Švab (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Mental Health Education and Prevention, May 27-29, 2004, Hotel Perla, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, Ljubljana: ŠENT. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/pdf/peer-coaching.pdf
Lehmann, Peter on behalf of the Bundesverband Psychiatrie-Erfahrener e.V. (April 5, 2001): "Voice of users and survivors of psychiatry on WHO-Day of Health (April 7, 2001). Psychiatric self-help on the internet 'www.bpe-online.de' promoted by the German Health Ministry". Press release. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/artikel/reform/who-day_2001.htm#who-day_2009
Lehmann, Peter (1997): "Europe – The European Network of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry". In: The Mental Health Observer, No. 17, p. 8. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/pdf/europe-enusp.pdf
Lehmann, Peter (August 27, 1997): "World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) accepted as authority by WFMH". Resolution by WFMH. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/authority.htm
Lehmann, Peter / Kempker, Kerstin (1993): "Unconventional approaches to psychiatry". In: Clinical Psychology Forum, No. 51, pp. 28-29. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/lehmann/pdf/unconventional.pdf

Articles by further authors

Ahern, Laurie / Peter Stastny / Chris Stevenson: INTAR – The International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery, in: Peter & Stastny & Peter Lehmann (eds.): Alternatives beyond psychiatry, Berlin / Eugene / Shrewsbury 2007, pp. 359-366; e-book 2025
Bracken, Pat: Beyond models, beyond paradigms – The radical interpretation of recovery, in: Peter & Stastny & Peter Lehmann (eds.): Alternatives beyond psychiatry, Berlin / Eugene / Shrewsbury 2007, pp. 400-402; e-book 2025
Chamberlin, Judi: A working definition of empowerment, in: Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Vol. 20 (1997), No. 4
Chamberlin, Judi: Definitions of "self-help groups" and "empowerment" developed in CI-1, unpublished paper from May 21, 1880
Cornwall, Michael: The dramatic results of John Weir Perry's Diabasis House program. John Weir Perry's Diabasis House program both built on and exceeded Jung’s previous understanding of psychosis. Contribution to Mad in America from April 7, 2022
Davar, Bhargavi V.: Globalizing psychiatry and the case of "vanishing" alternatives in a neo-colonial state. In: Disability and the Global South, Vol. 1 (2014), No. 2
Farber, Seth: When the children's psychiatrist comes. Published in worked-over and translated form under the title: Wenn der Kinderpsychiater kommt.... In: Kerstin Kempker / Peter Lehmann (eds.): Statt Psychiatrie (Instead of psychiatry) (1993)
Gottstein, Jim: How the legal system can help create a recovery culture in mental health systems. Attorney Jim Gottstein discusses how strategic litigation in the United States, combined with a serious public education campaign and the increased availability of alternatives to the drugging dominated mental health system, can combine into a powerful force for positive change. Paper to the conference Alternatives 2005 – Leading the Transformation to Recovery, Phoenix, Arizona, October 28, 2005
Hölling, Iris: The Berlin Runaway-house – Three Years of Antipsychiatric Practice. In Changes – An International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy (U.K.), Vol. 17 (1999), No. 4, pp. 278-28
Jesperson, Mats: Personal Ombudsman: A concrete example of supported decision-making. Lecture at Amnesty International Ireland's conference on supported decision-making, May 2013, on YouTube
Kempker, Kerstin: The runaway-house in Berlin. Lecture in Oslo (1999)
Kempker, Kerstin: About the terms "users" and "survivors" of psychiatry. Letter to ENUSP from June 15, 1994
Klafki, Hannelore: Making common sense of voices. Lecture with powerpoint-presentation to the International Conference Dignity and Recovery at the University College Cork, February 2005
Mental Health Europe (2005): "In Any Case – Germany". Proposed by Kerstin Kempker & Peter Lehmann. In: "Examples of Best Practice from Austria – Germany – Netherlands – Spain – United Kingdom" within the Action Project against "Harassment and Discrimination Faced by People with Mental Health Problems in the Field of Health Services: A European Survey" – organized in the framework of the "Community Action Programme to Combat Discrimination in 2001-2006". Booklet. Brussels: Mental Health Europe, p. 9. Online resource https://peter-lehmann.de/articles/enusp/faf-bestpractice.pdf
Nettle, Mary: Employment needs of people with mental health problems. In: Newsletter of the European Network of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, 1997
Sansi, Erveda: Beyond the walls the transision from hospital to community based care – Deinstitutionalisation and International cooperation in mental health. Lecture to Beyond the Walls in Trieste, April 13-16, 2011
Schreiber Mosher, Judy: Does Soteria have future? Lecture to the congress Soteria and No Restraint, Merano, Italy, November 21-23, 2007
Wallcraft, Jan: User-led research to develop an evidence base for alternative approaches. The role of research in mental health. In: Peter Stastny & Peter Lehmann (eds.), Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry, Berlin / Eugene / Shrewsbury: Peter Lehmann Publishing 2007, pp. 342-351 (e-book in 2025)
Webb, David: The relationship between economic values and socio-cultural values for helping us understand how to prevent suicide. Keynote lecture to the WHO/EU Conference on Mental health and suicidal behaviour in times of economic crisis, Stockholm, October 2009
Webb, David: Bridging the spirituality gap. In: Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health, Vol. 4 (2005); republished in: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy (U.K.), Vol. 5 (2005), No. 4, pp. 201-212
Webb, David: An interview in New Paradigm, Winter 2009
Wehde, Uta: The Runaway-house: Human support instead of inhuman psychiatric treatment. In: Changes – An International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy (1992)
Whitaker, Robert: Preface to Peter Stastny / Peter Lehmann (eds.): Alternatives beyond psychiatry, 2007, pp. 11-12 (ebook 2025)

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