World Psychiatric Association Meets with Psychiatric Survivor Movement Groups

DRESDEN, GERMANY: I only have a moment here at the hotel in Dresden,
Germany to sum up a great deal of news.

Representatives of several psychiatric survivor/mental health
consumer organizations held meetings with top leaders of the World
Psychiatric Association during the past three days here.

The WPA conference is on the topic of coercion in psychiatry. For
more than a year, several psychiatric survivor and mental health
consumer groups have been aware of this situation.

I am very proud to report that these movement groups worked well
together to address this challenge. We appointed author/psychiatric
survivor Peter Lehmann as our negotiator/liaison with the WPA, and
Peter did an absolutely brilliant job.

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