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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
*
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, eMail advocacy66wanadoo.fr
and
perpignan-po.advocacyorange.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, eMail fnappsy[at]yahoo.fr.
English
information
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.
English
information
* "l'Autre
Regard" (adherent a la
FNAP Psy), association of users in Rennes · Publications:
web site http://lautreregard.multimania.com/ · Address:
l'Autre Regard, 2 square de la Rance, 35000 RENNES, Tel.
+33 2 23302466, +33 2 99316343, Fax +33 2 99311868, eMail
autre.regard1[at]libertysurf.fr
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 · Contact: Martin Urban, 33, route de Pezenas,
34230 St. Pons de Mauchiens, Tél. / Fax:+33 4 67266754,
Mobile +49 172 8722798, eMail martin.urban.es@web.de(91
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