Coming off Psychiatric Drugs

Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers. Prefaces by Judi Chamberlin, Pirkko Lahti and Loren R. Mosher
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-9545428-0-1
Verlag: Antipsychiatrieverlag

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 145 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

The world-wide first book about "Successful coming down from psychiatric drugs." With experience-reports of 28 (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatric drugs from all over the world and additional articles of psychotherapists, physicians, psychiatrists, natural healers and other professionals helping withdraw.

With prefaces by Judi Chamberlin, Pirkko Lahti and Loren R. Mosher. Closing words by Karl Bach Jensen. Contributions by Regina Bellion, Carola Bock, Wilma Boevink, Michael Chmela, Bert Gölden, Ilse Gold, Gábor Gombos, Katalin Gombos, Maths Jesperson, Klaus John, Manuela Kälin, Kerstin Kempker, Leo P. Koehne, Jan Kuypers, Elke Laskowski, Peter Lehmann, Ulrich Lindner, Iris Marmotte, Constanze Meyer, Harald Müller, Eiko Nagano, Mary Nettle, Una M. Parker, Nada Rath, Erwin Redig, Hannelore Reetz, Roland A. Richter, Marc Rufer, Jasna Russo, Lynne Setter, Martin Urban, Wolfgang Voelzke, David Webb, Gerda Wozart, Josef Zehentbauer and Katherine Zurcher. Translations by Chie Ishii, Mary Murphy, Ivanka Popovic and Christina White.

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Publisher's Information

Noember 10, 2004

Dear Madam, dear Sir,

we want to draw your attention to our new book "Coming off Psychiatric Drugs," now translated completely into the English language.

The world-wide first book about the issue "Successful coming down from psychiatric drugs" primarily addresses treated people who want to withdraw on their own decision. It also addresses their relatives and therapists. Millions of people are taking psychiatric drugs, for example Haloperidol, Prozac, Risperidone or Zyprexa. To them, detailed accounts of how others came off these substances without once again ending up in the in the doctor's office are of fundamental interest.

In this practice-book 28 people from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Serbia & Montenegro, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA write about their experiences with withdrawal. Additionally, eight professionals, working in psychotherapy, medicine, psychiatry, social work, natural healing and even in a runaway-house, report on how they helped in the withdrawal process.

The chapters: The Decision to Withdraw - Withdrawal without Pharmacogenic Problems - Coming off Step by Step - Counterweights - To Withdraw with Professional Help - Better Sometimes than Forever - Professional Acting - The Time After

Zielgruppe

Psychiatric patients and their relatives; consumers, users and survivors of psychiatry, journalists, politicians, pastors, lawyers, judges and guardians; all professional workers in the psychosocial field: physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, naturopaths, psychologists, paedagogues, therapists, carers as well as the interested public

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lehmann, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Neuropharmakologie, Psychopharmakologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Über Autor(innen)

Lehmann, Peter
Peter Lehmann. Geboren 1950 in Calw (Schwarzwald). Dipl.-Sozialpädagoge, heute Autor, Verleger und Versandbuchhändler in Berlin. 1989 Gründungsmitglied u.a. vom Weglaufhaus Berlin, 1990 von PSYCHEX (Schweiz), 1991 vom Europäischen Netzwerk von Psychiatriebetroffenen (ENUSP), 1997 vom Weltverband von Psychiatriebetroffenen, 2008 von der Europäischen Demokratischen Bewegung für Seelische Gesundheit. 1997-1999 Vorsitzender von ENUSP, seit 2003 ENUSP-Vorstandsmitglied für die Region Nordosteuropa. Seit 2004 Mitglied beim International Network Toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR). 1986 Gründung des Antipsychiatrieverlags. Seit 1990 Mitherausgeber des Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy (Großbritannien). Buchveröffentlichungen u. a.: "Der chemische Knebel - Warum Psychiater Neuroleptika verabreichen" (1. Aufl. 1986; 5. Aufl. 2005); "Statt Psychiatrie" (1993, Herausgabe gemeinsam mit Kerstin Kempker); "Schöne neue Psychiatrie", Band 1: "Wie Chemie und Strom auf Geist und Psyche wirken" · Band 2: "Wie Psychopharmaka den Körper verändern" (1996); "Psychopharmaka absetzen. Erfolgreiches Absetzen von Neuroleptika, Antidepressiva, Phasenprohylaktika, Ritalin und Tranquilizern" (Herausgabe, 1. Aufl. 1998, 3. Aufl. 2008); "Statt Psychiatrie 2" (2007, Herausgabe gemeinsam mit Peter Stastny). (Stand: 11/2009).