Peter Lehmann (author)

Peter Lehmann (2005)

Peter Lehmann (born 1950 in Calw, Black Forest, West Germany), D. Phil. h.c., is an author, social scientist, publisher, and an independent freelance activist in humanistic anti-psychiatry, living in Berlin, Germany.[1]

In 1986, he founded Peter Lehmann Publishing in Berlin and published his first book, Der chemische Knebel (The Chemical Gag) (Berlin: Antipsychiatrieverlag 1986) in German through his own Antipsychiatric Publishing House. In 2003, he founded a branch in the United Kingdom and in 2004 in the United States of America.[2]

In 1980, Peter Lehmann was co-founder of a support group of (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry and advised about psychiatric drugs and withdrawal until 1989. In 1987, he was co-founder of PSYCHEX (Switzerland), an alliance of lawyers, doctors and survivors of psychiatry to support people who are incarcerated in psychiatric institutions); since then, board member. In 1989, he was co-founder of the Organization for the Protection from Psychiatric Violence (running the Runaway House Berlin, which opened its house for people seeking shelter from psychiatric violence in 1996).[1]

In 1991, he was co-founder of the European Network of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) and was the organization’s Chair from 1997 to 1999[3] and was a board member until 2010. In 1997, he was co-founder of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP)

Since 2000, Peter Lehmann has been co-editor of the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy (United Kingdom). Since 2002, he has been a member of MindFreedom International and was its designated representative to the United Nations. In 2007, he was a member of the Organizational Committee of the Conference "Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry", run by the World Psychiatric Association in Dresden.[4] He is blogger at Mad in America,[5] associate of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal[6] and member of the Specialist Committee for Psychiatric Drugs of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für soziale Psychiatrie e.V. (German Society for Social Psychiatry).

  1. ^ a b Lehmann, Peter: Biographical Data. Retrieved April 07, 2022.
  2. ^ Lehmann, Peter: Geschichte und Bedeutung des Antipsychiatrieverlags. Sozialpsychiatrische Informationen (Cologne, Germany), Vol. 52 (2022), No 2, pp. 25-29. Retrieved April 20, 2022.]
  3. ^ European Network of Users and Ex-Users in Mental Health: First European Conference of Users and Ex-Users in Mental Health. Zandvoort, the Netherlands, 24-27 October 1991. Report. Self-publication, 1991.
  4. ^ Lehmann, Peter / Wojke, Reinhard: Video, photo and word documentation from the perspective of (ex-) users and survivors of psychiatry from the congress Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review, run by the World Psychiatric Association in Dresden, Germany, June 6–8, 2007.
  5. ^ Peter Lehmann, blogger at Mad in America
  6. ^ Board members and associates of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal