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

November 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

Sincerely yours
Peter Lehmann

The Editor
Peter Lehmann. Born 1950 in Calw, Black Forest (Germany). Education as a social-pedagogist. Living in Berlin. Founder and editor, Peter Lehmann Publishing. From 1994 to 2000, board-member of the German organization of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. From 1997 to 2000, member of the Executive Committee of Mental Health Europe, the European section of the World Federation for Mental Health. From 1997 to 1999, Chair of the European Network of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP), from 2002 to 2004, Interim secretary of ENUSP, since 2004, ENUSP board member. Book publications include Der chemische Knebel – Warum Psychiater Neuroleptika verabreichen (The Chemical Gag: Why Psychiatrists Administer Neuroleptics), 1986, reprint 2005; Schöne neue Psychiatrie (Brave New Psychiatry), 1996; Vol. 1: Wie Chemie und Strom auf Geist und Psyche wirken (The Effects of Chemistry and Electricity on the Human Mind and Psyche), Vol. 2: Wie Psychopharmaka den Körper verändern (How Psychiatric Drugs Change the Body); Alternatives beyond Psychiatry (edited together with Peter Stastny in 2007). More about Peter Lehmann