Warning!
We cannot guarantee for the correctness of the addresses nor the actual political
or personal positions of the persons or groups on the list. User/survivor of psychiatry
groups have different positions and perspectives. Trying out contact addresses
is always at your own risk. / ENUSP does not accept any money from the drug industry.
National, regional and local organisations, however, take their own decisions.
For reasons of transparency, we refer to a (co-)financing by pharmaceutical companies
as far as we know about it by the addition "sponsored by pharmaceutical companies."
Nation-wide Organisations
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Advocacy
France: organisation from (ex-)users and survivors of
psychiatry, professionals and relatives · Target group:
(ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry · Aims: development
of advocacy and self-help. "We help people who call us by
phone or send us a letter when they feel to have some prejudice,
social exclusion and segregation because they are users
in mental health and psychiatry. We set up convivial citizens'
places, until now in Paris,
Caen, Vire, Perpignan,
Prades, Rouen and Grenoble. The users are responsible for
their activities and mutual self-help · Organisation
form: central, registered and democratic organisation with
600 members all over France; representative organisation,
recognised by government, active at congresses at other
public assemblies · Status of workers: volunteers and
workers · Funding: by subventions of DGAS, DRASS and
"Fondation de France" (no governmental funding); medical
and pharmaceutical industry sponsoring is refused ·
Publications: web sie www.advocacy66.org, Magazine "MEGAPHONE"
· Contact: Advocacy France 32, Avenue de Grande Bretagne,
66000 Perpignan, France, E-mail advocacy66[at]wanadoo.fr
and
perpignan-po.advocacy[at]orange.fr
* FNAP
Psy (Fédération Nationale des Associations
de Patients et [ex] Patients "PSY"; French network
of users' associations): La FNAP Psy est une fédération
d' associations Françaises de Patients ou d'ex-patients
qui regroupe actuellement une vingtaine d'associations.
Elle donne la force supplémentaire à chacune de
ses associations membres et les représente auprès
des instances concernées. Elle facilite le développement
des associations et tente d'en créer, là où
il n'en existe pas. Tant à l'égard des individus
que de ses associations membres, elle remplit également
une mission d'information · Contact: FNAP Psy, 24,
rue de Maubeuge, 75009 PARIS, Tel. +33 1 45260837; Mobile
+33 6 64291591, Fax +33 1 42821417, E-mail fnappsy[at]yahoo.fr.
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FRANCE
DÉPRESSION: L'association France-dépression
(loi 1901) a été créée en 1992, grâce
à l'initiative de quelques patients et médecins
· Target group and aims: Notre association ne prétend
en aucun cas remplacer l'aide médicale, mais assurera
une complémentarité indispensable, de soutien,
de compréhension et d'information, afin d'éviter
l'exclusion, l'isolement et la solitude de ceux qui souffrent
et d'encourager la compréhension de leurs proches.
Si vous désirez participer à cette vie associative,
nous vous proposons de vous rencontrer à l'occasion
de nos réunions et nos conférences. Nous pouvons
vous offrir une écoute unique" · Publications:
Web site www.serpsy.org/associations/france_depression.html
· Contact: France Dépression, 4, Rue Vigée
Lebrun, 75015 PARIS, Tel. +33 1 40610566.
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Groupe
Information Asiles (GIA) · Publications: Web site
www.groupeinfoasiles.org · Contact: GIA, 14, rue des
Tapisseries, 75017 PARIS, Tel. +33 1 47630562
International
Association of Spiritual Psychiatry: A non-profit organization,
created in 1994, based in France, dedicated to promote spiritual
approaches to mental health and psychiatry, through conferences,
newspapers and books · Publications: web site www.essence-euro.org/iasp/
Maison
d'Esperance, Val d'Herault/Languedoc ("Haus
der Hoffnung", Herault-Tal/Languedoc / "House of Hope" in
the Herault Valley, Languedoc): Overcoming a personal
life crisis – a holistic human challenge · Publications:
Web site www.maisondesperance.eu (in German language)·
Contact: Martin Urban, 33, 23, rue de la Garenne, 34230
St. Pons de Mauchiens, Tél. / Fax:+33 4 30416963,
Mobile +49 172 8722798, E-mail martin.urban.es[at]web.de.
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