News & Actualities

• Invitation to: "Determing our own future: The way forward for all European users and survivors of psychiatry", a European congress, run by the ENUSP and the Panhellenic Committee of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry in Thessalonica, Greece, 28. September – 1. October 2010, and the Ordinary General ENUSP Membership Assembly

• Elizabeth Winder for ENUSP: The Value+ Toolkit: For Patient Organisations on Meaningful Patient Involvement – Patients Adding Value to Policy, Projects and Services. An easy-to-read document for patient organisations, describing good practice in involving patients. The project outcomes include the Value+ Toolkit and Value+ Handbook which provide a comprehensive evidence-based overview of current practice and trends, success factors and challenges regarding patient involvement in EU health-related projects. Incl Policy Recommendations designed to support the meaningful involvement of patients in EC-supported projects, so that the outcomes of these projects really reflect the patient perspective.

• European Network of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) joined Facebook.

• Just released: Advocacy Update – The latest in activism and community news from ENUSP, Vol. 1 (2010), No. 1 (the new newsletter of ENUSP). Please download the press release as pdf or word-file

• WNUSP-News—The official newsletter of WNUSP (World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry): No. 3 (June 2007) / No. 2 (February 2007) incl. links to the UN-Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities No. 1 (February 2007)

• Report Brussels preparation meeting (June 4, 2009) Budapest conference on depression and suicide prevention due to be held in December 2009. Anne-Laure Donskoy.

• Nothing about us without us. How to make this a reality? Report of the Empowerment Seminar, run by ENUSP and Mental Health Europe and funded by the European Commission, Brussels, March 13-14, 2009 (pdf, 1 MB)

• Minutes of the ENUSP Board-meeting from May 26, 2009 available—incl. the latest news about the planned ENUSP membership meeting in 2010 in Greece

• Umachandran, Shalini: "He helps transform those with mental disabilities". Report about Gábor Gombos' empowerment activities in India, in: The Times in India, November 30, 2008

• Lehmann, Peter: Vom Statisten zum Akteur – Psychiatriebetroffene auf der internationalen Bühne. Über internationale Aktivitäten, incl. ENUSP. In Psychosoziale Umschau, 23. Jg. (2008), Nr. 4, S. 18-21 (pdf, 300 KB)
  Users and Survivors of Psychiatry on the International Stage: a shnapshot. About international activities, incl. ENUSP. In Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Vol. 9 (2009), No. 1, pp. 32-42 (pdf, 304 KB)
  Χρήστες και επιζώντες της ψυχιατρικής στο διεθνές προσκήνιο. Ένας απολογισμός,: in Κοινωνία και Ψυχική Υγεία (Society & Mental Health), 2009, No. 10 (pdf, 2,4 MB)
  

• European Democratic Movement for Mental Health founded in Rome in May 2008. More information

• WNUSP press release from May 3, 2008: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Enters into Force Today as Twenty Countries have Ratified the Convention

• Trialog und Selbstorganisation – Münchener Thesen und Forderungen für eine soziale Psychiatrie in Europa. Eine gemeinsame Erklärung der Vorstände des Bundesverbandes der Angehörigen psychisch Kranker e.V. (BApK), des Europäischen Netzwerks von Psychiatriebetroffenen (ENUSP) und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziale Psychiatrie e.V. (DGSP)
  

• WNUSP: Implementation Manual for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (pdf, 256 KB)

• WHO Europe: Mental Health Declaration 2005-2010, translated into Danish (pdf, 688 KB)

• Peter Lehmann / Reinhard Wojke: Video- Photo and text documentation of "Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry", congress run by the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) in Dresden, Germany, June 2007

• STOP THE PSYCHIATRIC VIOLENCE: Declaration and video-record from the action of the PAN-HELLENIC COALITION FOR THE PSYCHIATRIC REFORM against the 1st Eastern European Psychiatric Congress in Thessaloniki, Greece, from September 21, 2007

• UilenSpiegel, Patients’ Representatives Mental Health Care (Belgium), celebrates its 10th Anniversary. Seminar "Patient Rights en Patient Representation mental health care" on the 4th of October in the European Parliament in Brussels. Final date for enrolling: August the 28th ! With on October the 6th the Mad Pride in Brussels inviting all nationalities!

• Press-release (pdf, 89 KB) about The Crazy Bed-Push from July 13, 2007, to Bristol; and download the poster (jpg, 320 KB)

• ENUSP / World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry / MindFreedom International / Federal Organisation of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry in Germany (BPE) on June 7, 2007:
  Declaration of Dresden Against Coerced Psychiatric Treatment (pdf / text as word-file)
  Dresdener Erklärung zur psychiatrischen Zwangsbehandlung (pdf / Text als Word-Dokument)
  Dresden yfirlýsingin gegn nauðungarmeðferð í geðlækningum (pdf / text as word-file)
  ΔΙΑΚΗΡΥΞΗ ΤΗΣ ΔΡΕΣΔΗΣ ΕΝΑΝΤΙΑ ΣΕ ΜΙΑ ΨΥΧΙΑΤΡΙΚΗ ΤΟΥ ΠΕΙΘΑΝΑΓΚΑΣΜΟΥ (pdf / text as word-file)
  · text as word-file · without the Japanese code on your PC you can only read the pdf
  Deklaration fra Dresden. Imod psykiatrisk tvangsbehandling (pdf / text as word-file)

• WNUSP-News—The official newsletter of WNUSP (World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry): No. 3 (June 2007) / No. 2 (February 2007) incl. links to the UN-Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities No. 1 (February 2007)

• Macedonian Newsletter 2005/2 from Dejan Stevanovic, 22. April 2005: "We really have something to present to the world. Two our members life stories... "

• The Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC)—a legal advocacy NGO based in Budapest, that protects the rights of people with mental health problems and people with intellectual disabilities—has an opening on our governing Board. MDAC is particularly open to applications for Board membership from the user community and within the user community, especially interested in applications from Eastern Europe. For more information on MDAC, consult http://www.mdac.info. Board membership does not pay, but being a part of MDAC's Board allows you to influence the direction and management of this dynamic organization serving the disability community. If you are interested, please send an email and CV to dhoover[at]mdac.info
  Gábor Gombos, April 2, 2005

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