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Global Initiative on Psychiatry
Formation20 October 1980; 43 years ago (1980-10-20)
FounderGérard Bles
TypeNon-profit
NGO
HeadquartersLorentzweg 45 B 1221 EE, Hilversum, Netherlands
Fieldspsychiatry
1986–present Chief Executive
Robert van Voren, Ph.D.
Subsidiaries
  • Working Group on the Internment of Dissenters in Mental Hospitals;
  • Committee of French Psychiatrists Against the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes;
  • German Association Against the Political Abuse of Psychiatry;
  • International Podrabinek Fund;
  • Swiss Association Against Psychiatric Abuse for Political Purposes
Websitewww.gip-global.org

Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP) is an international foundation for mental health reform which took part in the campaign against the political abuse of psychiatry in the USSR.[1] The organization is of NGO type.[2]

Headquartered in Hilversum, GIP has regional centers in Tbilisi, Sofia, and Vilnius, and a country office in Dushanbe.[3]

GIP is a main contributor to improving psychiatric care in countries of the former Soviet Union as well as Central and Eastern Europe.[4] It has expanded its focus and as of 2010 is including projects in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.[3]

GIP also focuses on the political abuse of psychiatry throughout the world[5] and human rights monitoring.[6]

  1. ^ Donskis 2009, p. 314; Leygraf 2010; Narayan 2013
  2. ^ Pallot, Piacentini & Moran 2012, p. 234.
  3. ^ a b GIP 2015.
  4. ^ GIP 2015; Voren 2006
  5. ^ Tobin 2013; Voren 2010b
  6. ^ Voren 2009, p. xii.

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