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Peter Lehmann
July 2, 2026
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Peter Lehmann

Psychiatry stripped bare. Writings from half a century bringing humanity back to psychiatry. E-book

Peter Lehmann E-book, English language, 416 pages, 3 photos, 1 graphic. Prefaces by Mary O'Hagan & Martin Zinkler. Wuppertal & Lancaster: Karin Roth Publishing 2026 · Please inform me when Psychiatry Stripped Bare is available.

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About the Book

In 2025, Peter Lehmann, an internationally well-known critic of psychiatry and thorn in the flesh of established psychiatry, turned 75. This volume includes biographical, practice-oriented journal articles, book contributions and interviews from a 45-year writing career. They reveal the dark and dangerous side of modern psychiatry and ways to protect oneself from it or leave it.

In his foreword, Dr Martin Zinkler, MD MRCPsych and Member of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, writes:

"Lehmann anticipated and influenced today s unambiguous position of the United Nations and the World Health Organisation on psychiatry. For both organisations, it is now undisputed that psychopharmacological treatments can only be carried out with informed consent, that there can no longer be any substitute consent, that coercive measures must be abolished, and that all support must be in accordance with the will and preferences of the person concerned."

The Author

Peter LehmannPeter Lehmann, D. Phil. h.c., is a certified pedagogue, social scientist, author and freelance activist, living in Berlin. Associate of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal. Since 1979, he regularly speaks on and publishes in the field of alternatives beyond psychiatry, support in coming off psychiatric drugs, and safeguarding human rights of people with psychiatric diagnoses. He was co-founder and, until 2010, for many years board-member or Chair of the European Network of (ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. In 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and in 2011, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the President of Germany. English publications include, Withdrawal from Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs (edited together with Craig Newnes in 2023; e-book in 2026); Coming off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, Ritalin and tranquilizers, edited in 2004; e-book in 2026); Alternatives beyond Psychiatry, edited together with Peter Stastny in 2007; e-book in 2026).
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