This paper is originally from Nexus Magazine. It is all over the net, so I’m assuming it’s okay to use the fair use clause in copyright law and present this here for educational purposes. I found it here. I think this paper suggests we can to some extent consciously use the placebo effect to our [...]
Some thoughts on psychiatry
October 22, 2009 By
I’m going to take some excerpts as found on John Breeding’s website from his book, “The Necessity Madness and Unproductivity.” Just some ideas to get the juices flowing. I’ve mostly made an argument that mental illness can be treated by natural means and one can heal through healthy lifestyle, diet, nutrition and confronting one’s deepest [...]
Dancing wonder
October 21, 2009 By
Included in this beautiful man’s dance are one handed hand stands. Stunning.
Doctors of Deception – by Linda Andre, book review
October 21, 2009 By
This was first published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 21 (2009) 171–173 Linda Andre alerted me to it’s being available. Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You to Know about Shock Treatment Linda Andre (Rutgers University Press, NJ, USA), 2009, ISBN: 978-0-8135-4441-0, $26.95. I was asked to complete a [...]
Quote of the day — guilt vs. regret
October 20, 2009 By
The difference between guilt and regret is that the guilt never faces the wrongdoing straightforwardly. There’s just this strong emotion of “I wish it hadn’t happened. I wish I hadn’t done it. I wish I had never gotten angry.” Or, “I wish I hadn’t done that embarrassing thing,” and so on. Regret is the opposite [...]
Contemplative neuroscience — more on neuroplasticity
October 20, 2009 By
We can heal through meditation and by using our brains in the right ways. An ongoing sub-theme of this blog. A wonderful message of the nature of our beings — being that we are healing machines. Richard Davidson’s radical claim is that these behavioral strategies are far more effective then medications for both mental and [...]
Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom
October 19, 2009 By
A book: Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom: How Pathological Labels and “Therapeutic” Drugs Hurt Children and Families “Maelstrom” is an apt metaphor for the inexorable deterioration many children experience inside the mental health system. Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom: How Pathological Labels and “Therapeutic” Drugs Hurt Children and Families challenges current treatment practices [...]
Rethinking positive thinking
October 19, 2009 By
From Democracy Now: Author Barbara Ehrenreich on “Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America” In her new book, author Barbara Ehrenreich documents what she says is the destructive power of the positive thinking movement in the United States, from breast cancer to the workplace, to the economy, to politics as a [...]
An open letter to Oprah regarding Jani the seven yr old “schizophrenic”
October 18, 2009 By
From Intervoice. Thank you to everyone who participated in getting this very important letter out. Dear Oprah: We are writing this letter in response to your programme about “The 7-Year-Old Schizophrenic”. This concerned Jani, a child who hears voices, and was broadcast on the 6th October 2009. We do so in the hope we can [...]
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