Monthly Archives: May 2013

DSM5 – mad, bad, or just plain daft ?


Only days to go in the countdown to the publication of the worlds most expensive doorstop DSM5. If you really do need a doorstop try your  local dollar store – mine has two for $1.29 and they work perfectly well. … Continue reading

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Hearing Voices Worker Training – Fri 31st May 2013


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tickle it! – Mocean Worker


Cinco de Mowo!  

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That’s Life – Frank Sinatra


I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, A poet, a pawn and a king. I’ve been up and down and over and out But I know one thing: Each time I find myself flat on my face, I pick … Continue reading

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dustbin dance – Spike Milligan


when you’re feeling low down and you can’t find rom-a-a-a-nce leap into a dustbin and dance and why not? when you’re feeling low down and you can’t find rom-a-a-a-nce leap into a dustbin and dance!!! when your freinds forsake you … Continue reading

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If… Rudyard Kipling


For Stan                           Related: The remarkable story behind Rudyard Kipling’s “If” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146109/The-remarkable-story-Rudyard-Kiplings-If–swashbuckling-renegade-inspired-it.html    

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out come the freaks – Was(Not Was)


Oh Lord I ask you what kind of beast is man? Woodwork squeaks and out come the freaks   out come the freaks – Was(Not Was) Songwriters: FAGENSON, DON EDWARD/WAS, DAVID Little Rita and her sister Bette Met some mook … Continue reading

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May The 4th Be With You


I know Darth Vader’s really got you annoyed But remember, if you kill him, then you’ll be unemployed Oh, my Yoda Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda May 4th International Star Wars Day  Yoda – “Wierd” Al Yankovich Yoda – “Wierd” Al Yankovich Songwriters: … Continue reading

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Voices Matter


Voices Matter is a 23 min movie documenting the World Hearing Voices Congress 2013 in Cardiff, Wales. The hearing voices movement is 25 years old began when Patsy Hague asked of her psychiatrist Dr Marius Romme : “how come you believe in … Continue reading

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Is that God Talking? – Tanya Lurhmann


A great op-ed piece in yesterday’s NY Times by  Tanya Lurhmann,  in which she casts her anthropologists gaze upon a  slice of the incredible diversity of  human experience – hearing voices that others don’t; and, in particular,  those who understand and … Continue reading

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