Therapists and psychiatrists: your patients and clients need love. Can you give them that?

Therapists and psychiatrists: your patients and clients need love. Can you give them that? Someone in the comments said, that no, they do not offer their clients love because it breaks ethical codes. My response to her was this: love doesn't break, indeed, cannot break, any ethical code...that is a misunderstanding of what love is. If love breaks a rule on the other hand, perhaps it needed to be broken!! Love is the highest ethic there is! … [click on title for the rest of the post]

November 17, 2014

Daring to Fall: Trusting in Our Communities

From the blog of Laura Burke: "In Sanity: Some alternative angles on mental wellness from the perspective of a creative arts therapist and psychiatric survivor."

November 17, 2014

The guru is within…

The below sentiment is true about learning to live well in general whether you’re thinking of things in terms of spirituality or not. For example we would be much better served if we were told by mental health professionals from the very beginning to trust ourselves rather than anyone telling us what to do. Instead, the entire system is fraught with the infantilization of the client…this is (in general) true of both psychology and psychiatry as currently practiced. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

November 17, 2014

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