This was written as a result of a conversation that Daniel Mackler and I had. He revealed that the psychiatric hospital he visited when making his last film, built in the 1950s was mostly empty. They don't need the beds because their success rate is so high! -- I started asking particulars about this issue given that in the United States all we hear about is how there are never enough psychiatric beds in hospitals. The fact is if we were healing people like the Finnish people are, we might end up with mostly empty hospitals too. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

It is common for human beings to experience things in their mind that they didn’t expect or want.  These might appear to be coming from outside the person, as “voices” commonly do, or they might be more obviously coming from somewhere inside the person, as do unexpected and/or unwanted thoughts, impulses, images, feelings, emotions, memories, etc.  (All of these are called “intrusions” by psychologists, because they seem to intrude into one’s consciousness.)