Parents who feel comfortable calling their children mentally ill while refusing to take a look at family dynamics are problematic and complicate the healing process for those labeled ill. We need to know that we are part of a web of life and our situation has not happened in a vacuum. We are not defective…. Continue Reading →
I don’t often do this sort of commentary anymore, but sometimes I simply have to… Here it is from twitter. This rose up in me spontaneously and it’s all I wish to say now. There are lots of additional links for more information is you are interested in pursuing this further. …
As I heal and come to more deeply understand and learn about exactly what happened to my brain on psych drugs I am devastated again and again. We are committing crimes of abuse, violence and harm every time we tell people they must be on psych drugs and offer them no options… The more I am healed from the brain injury the psych drugs incurred, the deeper is the revelation of ignorance and insanity within psychiatry. I may no longer be enraged because I realize the profound ignorance and fear that motivates psychiatry, but I’m more and more dismayed…
We have no memory of being in the womb or emerging from the birth canal. Dreams are quickly forgotten if remembered at all. We experience emotions but may not always know why. The most fundamental dimensions of our experience cannot be found in any solid way, quantified, or even seen. How can we understand spiritual emergencies and other spiritually transformative events if, as R.D. Laing wrote, “We can see other people’s behavior but not their experience?” …
On this blog there is now a nice collection of articles on Open Dialogue as it’s used in Western Lapland Finland with people who find themselves experiencing all manner of psychotic phenomena. The psychiatric hospitals are nearly empty there. The method can be learned and the results have been documented. People heal and go on to… Continue Reading →
I continue to be pleased to know this blog is being used as the resource I’d hoped it would become.
By Eric R. Maisel Ph.D. Rethinking Mental Health Posted first on Psychology Today — the series should be followed there. The work from this site, Beyond Meds will be covered in one of the interviews. … This blog post introduces a hundred-day series of interviews on Psychology Today with folks from around the world committed to non-traditional ways of helping individuals suffering from emotional and mental distress.
An ancient Hawaiian tradition:
“In these communities no one was considered an isolated individual. Every single person was a member of the interdependent community and bloodline. Every single person in some way or another represented their clan/family/lineage/village. – So If one single person behaved criminally then the whole family, clan and village felt they were responsible for that behaviour. A criminal action belonged to and was the responsibility of the whole community. – If there was a wrongdoing therefore the whole family and village would come out to take responsibility for it, to redress it and to heal it.” … [click on title to read and view more]
Finnish Open Dialogue: High recovery rates leave many psychiatric beds empty This was an important post so I’ve made it a tab for easy reference. This is a guest post written by Daniel Mackler the filmmaker. His three films show alternative methods of healing people with psychosis. In all the films relationships are ultimately what… Continue Reading →
Wonderful talk on the holistic nature of reality and how we so often deal with the pieces rather than understanding the whole. How do we come to know and not know in the context of this reality. A reality that is dependent on a multitude of relationships with all the multitude of parts. How do we hold this all together?
What does it mean to think differently? … [click on title to view more]
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