Groups of (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry (and other addresses) in The Netherlands

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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

  • Angst, Dwang en Fobie stichting · Target group: people with fear and depression problems as well as the public · Aims: training and education, dissemination of information, prevention, treatment-information for all people with fear and depression problems · Organisation form: central organisation · Status of workers: paid and voluntary staff · Funding: unknown · Publications: web site www.adfstichting.nl · Bezoekadres: Angst, Dwang en Fobie stichting, Hoofdstraat 122, NL-3972 LD DRIEBERGEN. Postadres: SFN, Postbus 209, NL-3970 AE DRIEBERGEN, Tel. 0900 2008711 (09.00 – 13.00 uur, 55 ct. per minuut), Fax +31 343 531737, eMail info[at]adfstichting.nl

  • Caleidoscoop · Target group: people with dissociative problems, their families, other interested people, professionals or the healthcare system. Aims: representing people with dissociative problems in politics, training and education, raising awareness, dissemination of information, contact between people who have similar problems · Organisation form: central organisation with local groups · Status of workers: voluntary staff · Funding: Dutch Patientenfonds · Publications: web site www.caleidoscoop.nl · Contact: Caleidoscoop, Stationsplein 6, NL-3818 LE AMERSFOORT, Tel. +31 23 5271634, eMail caleidoscoop[at]caleidoscoop.nl

  • Christelijke Vereniging Angsten en Fobieën (CVAF) · Target group: people with fears and phobias, their friends and relatives and interested people. Aims: raising awareness, dissemination of information, contact between people with fears and phobias · Organisation form: central organisation · Status of workers: voluntary staff · Funding: Dutch Patientenfonds · Contact: CVAF, Postbus 178, NL-3900 AD VEENENDAAL, Tel. +31 318-547888

  • * Clientenbond: "The clients union is a general, not illness-bound clients organisation. In the clients union people share their experiences in the mental healthcare, regardless the nature of their psychological problems or diagnose, and they stand up together for their shared interests" · Target group: People that are a client of a facility within mental healthcare right now or in the past; people with psychological complaints that require adequate help and are looking for it; people that are being discriminated on basis of their "different behaviour”; people that can’t or don’t want to adapt to the standards and expectations of society; people with psychological complaints that end up in the juridical circuit; people that are not or hardly able to stand up for themselves due to their handicap or disability, and that in a larger or lesser extent are dependant of intensive care from within the mental healthcare department, like some chronic and psychogeriatric clients · Aims: Representing (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry in politics, lobbying, raising awareness, dissemination of information, mutual contact · Organisation form: central organisation with local groups. They are acknowledged by the government and the providers of health care as a partner to negotiate with. The structure is the general assembly, the board and then the voluntary workers and the staff. About 1700 individual members and 60 groups like patient councils (Summer 2002) · Status of workers: paid and voluntary staff · Funding: subsidized by the Dutch Patientenfonds, gifts, membership-contribution · Publications: web site www.clientenbond.nl, magazine "Bulletin van de Clientenbond" · Contact: Clientenbond, Postbus 645, NL-3500 AP UTRECHT, Tel. +31 30 2521822, eMail postbus[at]clientenbond.nl

  • Depressie Stichting · Target group: people and families with depression as well as other interested people · Aims: representing people with depression in politics, training and education, raising awareness, dissemination of information, contact between people who have to deal with depression · Organisation form: central Organisation · Status of workers: voluntary staff · Funding: unknown · Publications: web site www.depressiestichting.nl · Contact: Bezoekadres: Depressie Stichting, Stratumsedijk 32, NL-5611 NE Eindhoven. Postadres: Depressie Stichting, Postbus 99, NL-5600 AB EINDHOVEN, Tel. 0900-9039039 (Info- en Advieslijn, € 0,15 p/m), +31 40-2135214 (secretariaat), Fax +31 40 2135219

  • Europese Stichting voor Angst- en Depressiebestrijding · Target group: people with fears and depression, their relatives and the public · Aims: training and education, dissemination of information, contact between people with fears and depression · Organisation form: central organisation · Status of workers: voluntary staff · Funding: unknown · Contact: Molenlaan 6, NL-2181 GE HILLEGOM, Tel. +31 180 684073, Fax +31 252 531271

  • Gereformeerde Patiëntenvereniging "de wegwijzer" · Target group: "people who have to deal with all kind of psychiatric illnesses," their families and friends · Aims: raising awareness, dissemination of information · Organisation form: central Organisation · Status of workers: unknown · Funding: unknown · Contact: 'De Wegwijzer', Landelijk Bureau, Postbus 85275, NL-3508 AG UTRECHT, Algemeen Tel. +31 30-2363724, Hulp en advieslijn +31 30 2363742, Fax +31 30 2313054

  • Impuls · Target group: people with the diagnosis ADHD. Open also to relatives ad other interested people · Aims: training and education, raising awareness, dissemination of information, contact between people who have tho deal with ADHD, prevention · Organisation form: central organisation · Status of workers: voluntary staff · Funding: unknown · Publications: web site www.npcf.nl/patientenorg/gids/organisatie/8874.htm · Contact: Bezoekadres: Impuls, De Kwinkelier 39, NL-3722 AR BILTHOVEN, Postadres: Impuls, Postbus 93 3720, NL-AB BILTHOVEN, Tel. +31 30 2255050, 0900 2020065 (hulp- en infolijn, € 0,25 p/m), Fax +31 30 2252440

  • * LPR (Landelijke Patienten en Bewoners Raden). The patients council movement within the mental health care in the Netherlands · Target group: (ex-)users of mental healthcare in patient-councils · Aims: representing patients in politics, lobbying, raising awareness, dissemination of information · Status of workers: paid and voluntary staff · Organisation form: central organisation with local groups · Funding: own funding · Publications: web site www.lpr.nl · Contact: LPR, Postbus 3305, Churchillaan 11, NL-3502 GH UTRECHT, Tel. +31 29 33233, Fax +31 29 30244, eMail info[at]lpr.nl. English information

  • Nederlandse Vereniging voor Autisme, voor mensen met een aandoening uit het spectrum van autistische stoornissen (NVA) · Target group: people who have to deal with autism, their families and other interest people · Aims: raising awareness, dissemination of information, contact between people who have the diagnosis of autism · Organisation form: central organisation · Status of workers: unknown. Funding: unknown · Publications: web site www.autisme-nva.nl/ · Contact: Nederlandse Vereniging voor Autisme (NVA), Prof. Bronkhorstlaan 10, NL-3723 MB BILTHOVEN, Tel. +31 30 2299800, Fax +31 30 2662300, eMail info[at]autisme-nva.nl

  • Stichting Anorexia en Boulimia Nervosa · Target group: people with eating disorders, family-members and other interested people · Aims: representing people with eating disorders in politics, training and education, research, raising awareness, dissemination of information, contact between people who have (different kinds of) eating disorders · Organisation form: central organisation with local groups · Status of workers: voluntary staff · Funding: Dutch Patientenfonds and gifts · Publications: web site www.sabn.nl/ · Contact: Stichting Anorexia en Boulimia Nervosa, Stationsplein 6, NL-3818 LE Amersfoort, Tel. 0900-8212433, eMail info[at]sabn.nl

  • Stichting Borderline · Target group: people who suffer from borderline disorder and other interested people · Aims: representing people who suffer from borderline disorder in politics, training and education, raising awareness, dissemination of information, contact between people who suffer from borderline disorder · Organisation form: central organisation with local groups · Status of workers: paid and voluntary staff · Funding: Funding by the Dutch Patientenfonds, gifts, membership-contribution · Publications: web site www.stichtingborderline.nl/ · Contact: Stichting Borderline, Postbus 1147, NL-3500 BC UTRECHT, Tel. +31 30 2767072, eMail stichting[at]stichtingborderline.nl

  • Stichting Empty Memories · Target group: People who suffer from psychotrauma, dissociation or dissociative disorders and also professionals, workers in the psychiatric field and others · Aims: (1) For clients: Contact, mutual exchange, providing information, advice in topics like treatment, social welfare and therapy, raising awareness in society etc.; more information see http://members.rott.chello.nl/emweringh/case.html. (2) For professionals: Contact, discussion and providing information (in Dutch and English) about recent scientific articles, news and a database of abstracts on the subject of psychotrauma and dissociative disorders as well as other relevant information; more information see http://members.rott.chello.nl/emweringh/pro.html · Organisation form: Foundation, central organisation · Status of workers: voluntary staff · Funding: unknown · Publications: web site http://members.rott.chello.nl/emweringh · Contact: Stichting Empty Memories, c/o Arthur van Schendeldreef 19, 3069 WL ROTTERDAM, Fax +31 10 4552688

  • Stichting Fobievrienden · Target group: people who suffer from anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, and depressive disorders · Aims: raising awareness, dissemination of information, information about treatment and the disorder, how to contact people with the same problems · Organisation form: central organisation · Status of workers: unknown · Funding: no funding · Publications: web site www.npcf.nl/fobie.htm · Contact: Bezoekadres: Mesdaglaan 81, NL-2182 SE HILLEGOM. Postadres: Teunisbloemlaan 24, NL-2116 TD Bentveld, Tel. +31 252 518689 (paniekopvang & informatie), +31 252 520406 (paniekopvang & informatie), 24 hour service telephone 0900 6161611, Fax +31 23 5244933, eMail drs.marja.taams[at]wxs.nl

  • Stichting Pandora · Target group: people who have, have had, or might develop psychological and/or psychiatric problems. These people's experiences are what the Pandora Foundation bases all its activities on · Aims: giving support, protecting the interests of its target groups by directly influencing policy, and by providing information, advice, support, education and press education · Organisation form: foundation, NGO, founded 1964 · Status of workers: unknown · Funding: unknown · Publications: web site www.stichtingpandora.nl · Contact: Stichting Pandora, 2e Constantijn Huygensstraat 77, NL-1054 CS AMSTERDAM, Tel. +31 20-6851171, Fax +31 20-6123699, eMail info[at]stichtingpandora.nl; Pandora Depressielijn, Tel. 0900-6120909 (€ 0,10 p/m; reachable Monday to Friday, 18.00 - 21.00, eMail depressielijn[at]stichtingpandora.nl; Informatie- & Advieslijn, Tel. +31 20 6851171 (reachable Monday to Friday, 10.00 - 13.00)

  • Stichting Weerklank · Target group: people with the diagnosis schizofrenia · Aims: raising awareness, dissemination of information, contact between people with the diagnosis schizofrenia · Organisation form: central organisation · Status of workers: voluntary staff · Funding: unknown · Publications: web site www.stemmenhoren.nl · Contact: Stichting Weerklank, Postbus 195, NL-1900 AD CASTRICUM, Tel. +31 251 236286 of +31 72 5740331 (werkdagen 9.00-21.00)

  • Vereniging Anoiksis · Target group: people with the diagnosis schizophrenia and psychosis and their friends · Aims: representing people with the diagnosis schizophrenia and psychosis in politics, raising awareness, dissemination of information, contact between people who have the diagnosis schizophrenia or psychosis · Organisation form: central organisation · Status of workers: voluntary staff · Funding: Dutch Patientenfonds, gifts, contributions · Publications: web site www.anoiksis.nl/ · Contact: Anoiksis, Gansstraat 67 a, NL-3582 EC UTRECHT, Tel. +31 30 2546113, Fax +31 30 2546153, eMail anoiksis[at]anoiksis.nl

  • Vereniging voor Manisch-Depressieven en Betrokkenen · Target group: people with the manic-depressive disorders ant their relatives. Open to all · Aims: Representing users, ex-users and survivors in politics, training and education, raising awareness, dissemination of information, contact between people with the same diagnosis · Organisation form: central organisation · Status of workers: voluntary staff · Funding: Dutch Patientenfonds, gifts, contributions · Publications: web site www.nsmd.nl/ · Contact: VMDB, Postbus 24076, NL-3502 MB UTRECHT, Tel. +31 30 2803030. Helpdesk 0900 2025377 (9.00 tot 21.00 uur, 7 days per week, kosten € 0,10 per minuut), eMail vmdb[at]nsmd.nl

• Others

  • * Clienten Centrum Limburg / Time-Out · Aims: Empowerment, selfhelp, development ideas about our situation, improvement the situation of users & survivors of psychiatry · Organisation form: registered non-profit organisation, working on the local & regional level · Status or workers: volunteers and patients exclusively · Funding: at this moment (September 2004) we get a little money from insurance and contribution of the members. Most of the activities are paid by ourselves · Decision to accept money from the pharmaceutical industry? No, but we do not like that · Publications: newsletter for members (six times a year) · Contact: Clienten Centrum Limburg, c/o Jan Verhaegh, Princes Christinalaan 14, NL-6301 VX VALKENBURG aan de Geul, Tel. +31 43 6013857, eMail janverhaegh[at]hotmail.com

  • Deviant is a Dutch magazine for innovation and democratization of mental health services and connected fields. Deviant is a forum for all people involved: helpers, clients/users, family members, scientists, policy makers, politicians, journalists, financers and other people interested · Contact: Redactiesecretariaat: Deviant, Postbus 75249, NL-1070 AE Amsterdam, Tel. +31 20 6946850, eMail redactie[at]tijdschriftdeviant.nl, internet: www.tijdschriftdeviant.nl/home.htm

  • IGPB, the Institute for Userparticipation and Policy (Instituut voor Gebruikersparticipatie en Beleid) is an independent agency for user-led research, development and training, based in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). We take experiences of people who are, were or have been on the receiving end of services as our starting point, and often as the sole perspective of our approach. Involvement of people on the receiving end in all phases of a project is another starting point of our work · Organisation form: private company · Publications: web site www.igpb.nl, reports see www.igpb.nl/publicaties.html · Contact: IGPB, Singel 54, NL-1015 AB AMSTERDAM, Tel. +31 20 6204741, Fax +31 20 3303170, eMail igpb[at]igpb.nl. English information

  • Nederlandse Patiënten en Consumenten Federatie (NPCF) · Target group: all interested people as well as professionals in healthcare · Aims: representing users and ex-users in politics, lobbying, training and education, raising awareness and dissemination of information · Organisation form: central organisation with local groups · Status of workers: paid staff · Funding: indirectly subsidized by the government · Publications: web site www.npcf.nl · Contact: Bezoekadres: Van Dommelenhuis, Churchilllaan 11, UTRECHT, 6e etage. Postadres: Postbus 1539, NL-3500 BM UTRECHT, Tel. +31 30 2970303, Fax +31 30 2970606

  • Regionale Patiënten/Consumenten Platforms (RPCP's), Utrecht Region · Target group: (ex-)users of (mental) healthcare; open to all · Aims: representing (ex-)users of psychiatry in politics, lobbying, advocacy, training and education, recreation, raising awareness, dissemination of information · Organisation form: local group · Status of workers: paid and voluntary staff · Funding: unknown · Publications: web site www.ppcputrecht.nl/ · Contact: PP/CP Utrecht, Kaap hoorndreef 38, Nl-3563 AV UTRECHT, Tel. +31 30 2628024, Fax +31 30 2617063. Openingstijden: maandag – donderdag 9.00 – 17.30 uur, vrijdag 9.00 – 13.00 uur, eMail secretariaat[at]ppcputrecht.nl