Organisations providing services






Page last updated 04/08/2007


Centre for Citizenship and Community Mental health (Bradford, UK)
The centre is informed by a conceptual and philosophical critique of mental health practice that prioritises social, cultural and political contexts, and has an ethical rather than technical orientation. The centre is using a Community Development model to build alliances and partnerships with ethnic communities and service user groups (locally and nationally) as a means of tackling social exclusion and health inequalities. This ethos, of philosophical critique and action through community development, lies at the heart of the CCCMH.




Centre for Community Mental health (Birmingham, UK)
The Centre works to improve services and life opportunities for people with severe and enduring mental health problems. The Centre concentrates on tackling social exclusion and the development of innovative approaches to service provision through training, education and research.




Experience Focused Counselling (EFC) Training Institute (Germany)
It is the aim of EFC to accompany a person, who has got experiences, which can be difficult to understand, such as voice hearing, visioins, unusual beliefs, etc, in order to jointly work on finding ways and means to understand this experience and live with it. It thus offers a complementary understanding to traditional approaches in our societies, professional institutions, amongst professionals and carers, who might be involved with a person with such experiences.




Institute for Transformational Psychology (Netherlands)
The objective of the Institute for is to bring Transformational Psychology to the attention of more people and to advance its use. To achieve these goals the ITP organises lectures, training's, and an educational program. The methods and techniques the ITP uses are not a target in itself, but instruments to achieve awareness and integration of a number of important principles of transformation.




Mental Health Foundation (UK)
Mental Health Foundation is a leading UK charity that provides information, carries out research, campaigns and works to improve services for anyone affected by mental health problems, whatever their age and wherever they live.




Crazydiamond training and consultancy
A small and personal collective of experts by profession and experience working in the wider fields of Mental Health, Social Care and Young People’s Services. Aim to provide training and consultancy with practical helpful responses that avoid much of the psychobabble and over-professionalized language that is currently hampering much of psychiatry and psychotherapy. Collective members include Mike Smith, Marion Aslan and Olga Runciman, all of them INTERVOICE members.




Mind (UK)
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. They work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress




National Empowerment Center
"Recovery is real and this website is filled with practical information that will help you recover if you have been labeled with a mental illness". Based in the USA.




Peter Lehmann Publishing & Mail-Order Bookstore
Here you will find books and information, orientated to the interests of survivors and (ex-)users of psychiatry, their friends, relatives and professionals.




PsychMinded (UK)
For all who work in psychology, psychiatry and mental health. This site is owned by Adam James, award winning journalist and INTERVOICE supporter.




Tidal Model (UK)
The Tidal Model® is a philosophical approach to the discovery of mental health, focused on helping people recover their personal story, as a first step towards reclaiming control over their lives.




Weglaufhaus (Runaway House) Berlin
The Berlin Runaway House is a modern consumer-run initiative whose philosophical roots trace back to a program originating in the Netherlands prior to the era of deinstitutionalization.




William Ellis: training research consultancy
An independent training organisation specialising in creating innovative approaches to recovery and mental health.No one has ever been cured or healed by a psychiatric service however our courses provide workers with the necessary equipment to allow the possibility of self healing.




Working to Recovery (UK)
Training and consultancy organisation. Born out of the need to promote recovery for all.




Schizophrenia Drug-free Crisis Centre & Helpline (Adelaide, Australia)
The Schizophrenia Crisis Centre & Helpline was founded to respond to an ever-growing number of sufferers and relatives who are seeking natural, healing, caring, soulful and re-empowering alternatives to the psychiatric approach. "Schizophrenia" is defined as an acute psychospiritual crisis.







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  1. Linda GeorgeSeptember 22, 2007 @ 05:55 PM
    I am looking for information about my grandmother,Lillie Hardman.She was hospitalized at Longview Hospital in Cincinnati Ohio.I am not sure if you know who would have the records of the hospital or the cemetary.I appreciated the article in the Cincinnati Post from 1998.I realize it is along time ago.My mom is 97 years old,I am trying to find any information if possible.
  2. JerryNovember 19, 2008 @ 10:48 PM
    I am trying to learn about groups and/or other support in New York City for a friend of mine who hears voices. His voices began about a year and a half ago and, according to his doctors, are a result of HIV dementia caused by the HIV virus having entered his brain. My friend sometimes finds the voices scary; he often finds them distracting, making it difficult for him to focus on things he is trying to do or people he is trying to converse with. He also suffers from certain cognitive disabilities (eg, things like balancing a checkbook, once simple for him, now take considerable effort); these disabilities appeared about the same time that his voices did. My friend does take several medications related to his psychological condition. Any information about support groups or other support would be much appreciated. Nov. 19, 2008
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