Bundesverband Psychiatrie Erfahrener (BPE)
A national organization with 1078 members, all of them users and survivors of psychiatry.
Organization has Executive Board consisting of 7 people.
Address: Wittener Str. 87, 44789 Bochum, Germany
Tel.: 0234 / 68 70 55 52
E-mail: kontakt-info@bpe-online.de
Website: www.bpe-online.de
Landesverband der Psychiatrieerfahrenen in Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. – Association of (ex)users /survivors of psychiatry in Rhine-Palatinate e.V.
Association of Survivors. Scale: regional and national (telephone consulting service and specialized telephone service centered on traumatized survivors planned and scheduled from April 2016).
150+ members, 98% (ex)users /survivors of psychiatry and 2% sponsor membership.
Objectives and aims: we encourage alternative ways in treatment following the principles of Empowerment and Recovery. Moreover we do peer-to-peer and political work on different levels.
Activities: We are organizing conferences, workshops and EX/IN education; besides that we influence political tasks in different national, regional and local political committees and boards. We are working on complaints of (ex)users /survivors of psychiatry and offer a counselling service (peer support) and local EX/IN services for them.
Full address: Gratianstraße 7, D-54294 Trier, Germany
Tel.: +49-(0)651-1707967;
E-mail: F.J.Wagner@gmx.net;
Website: www.lvpe-rlp.de
Representatives: Chairman Franz-Josef Wagner; Deputy Chairman Carsten Hoffmann Ph.D.
Contact e-mails: F.J.Wagner@gmx.net; za-choffmann@gmx.de
Verein zum Schutz vor psychiatrischer Gewalt e.V.- Association for the Protection against psychiatric Violence, Germany
Regional organization. Members are survivors of psychiatry and other activists. Majority of the Board members are survivors.
Objectives and aims: Creation of alternatives to psychiatry such as runaway-house, criticizm of psychiatry, antipsychiatric politics, organising activities of the survivors of psychiatry. Association runs the Berlin Runaway house, Support (individual support work), a counselling center (peer support), a film forum, groups to support withdrawal from psychiatric drugs and organises conferences, discussions, tries to influence politics from survivor perspective
Address: Postfach 280 427, 13444 Berlin, Germany
Tel: 030-40 632 146
Fax: 030-40 632 147
E-mail: info@weglaufhaus.de
Website: www.weglaufhaus.de
Berliner Organisation Psychiatrie-Erfahrener und Psychiatrie-Betroffener (BOP&P) e.V.
Local group of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry with 40 members.
Purpose: selfhelp and representation
Main activities: Meetings, councelling, writing-group and selfhelp-groups
Address: Belziger Str. 1, 10823 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +491712429161
E-mail: boppev@web.de
Website: www.bopp-ev.de
Representative: Reinhard Wojke
E-mail: tai-kenzo@online.de
Individual members in Germany:
Arnold, Annemarie
Hilke, Angelika
Lehmann, Peter
Pullen, Vicky
Roex, Karlijn
Russo, Jasna
Vogel, Katrin