From Wish I Could Be There: Notes From a Phobic Life by Allen Shawn. The concept of normality is due for an overhaul. "Normality" is a relative term...Each human being is a peculiar balance of assets and defects, physical, psychological, sociological. When you see a person's strengths, they are, by and large, eclipsing equally powerful... Continue Reading →
Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and taste and experience much less than usual ... And for a man who has let himself be drawn completely out of himself by his activity, nothing is more difficult than... Continue Reading →
From the news and blogs the last few days: How Loss Creates Depression And Growth - Fable - Good Fables -- "The capacity to tolerate distress and efficiently develop greater internal resources creates the greatest possibility for posttraumatic growth. Posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic diminishment can co-exist." Meet A Primary Care Doc Who Speaks For Glaxo... Continue Reading →
Robert Whitaker, author of the renowned book Mad in America, and Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America to be released in a month, now has a blog on Psychology Today. His first post on the new blog takes the New Yorker to task for... Continue Reading →
When you don't punish or condemn yourself, when you relax more and appreciate your body and mind, you begin to contact the fundamental notion of basic goodness in yourself. So it is extremely important to be willing to open yourself to yourself. Developing tenderness toward yourself allows you to see both your problems and your... Continue Reading →
With the video on youtube: Why are so many veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan psychologically damaged? Is it the natural trauma of war, or the product of military whose mission is to occupy and suppress the civilian population? Zollie Goodman recounts the racism against Iraqis imbued in his unit, while Kris Goldsmith reveals... Continue Reading →
"Former psychiatric patient-turned-psychologist Rufus May has been shaking up the treatment of mental illness by talking to the voices people hear." Read the story here. I've talked about Rufus May on this blog before. The film he made for BBC can be seen in it's entirety on youtube. It's well worth a look if you've not... Continue Reading →
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. -- Arthur Gordon
In no particular order some of the news that interested me the last few days: My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables) - New York Times -- "But consumers who would like to be able to buy local fruits and vegetables not just at farmers’ markets, but also in the produce aisle of their supermarket, will be... Continue Reading →
Rethinking the Potential of the Brain in Major Psychiatric Disorders By Steven Morgan stevenmorganjr@gmail.com I. Questionable Theories The human brain is likely the most complex structure in the Universe. Even though it produces our understanding of the world, we are still in our infancy of understanding it. Even so, technological advances in the past few... Continue Reading →
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