Tina Stöckle

Tina Stöckle was a German author and activist of humanistic antipsychiatry.

Biography

Tina Stöckle was a secondary school teacher and completed a second degree in Diplom-Education at the TU Berlin. After she was repeatedly housed in psychiatry, she came in the fall of 1980 on the madding offensive in Berlin and made in 1983 a significant part in the development of meeting point of the lunatic as well as on his operation. From 1982 she was committed to the idea of Weglaufhauses. She has been instrumental in advancing patriarchal and academic antipsychiatry towards a more user-driven, humanistic and feminist position in antipsychiatry. In 1989 she was a founding member of the Association for the Protection against Psychiatric Violence e.V. In her honor, the Weglaufhaus in Berlin is nicknamed "Villa Stöckle".

Death

Died on April 8, 1992. In her honor, the Weglaufhaus in Berlin bears the epithet «Villa Stöckle». Book release: «The insane offensive. Experiences of a Self-Help Organization of Psychiatric Survivors », Berlin Peter Lehmann Antipsychiatrieverlag 2005.