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Psychosis is…
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Category Archives: Ideas
Understanding Trauma – Peter Levine and his Slinky
Peter Levine’s work unlocks our understanding of how trauma works within us – and how we can heal ourselves and find ways to support others in their healing, In this short [6min] clip he uses a slinky to demonstrate how … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas, Learning, Trauma
Tagged Peter Levine, Slinky, Trauma
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a tiny fragment in the vastness of nature
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. -Max Planck We tend to think that what humans see, hear, feel is all that there is. Yet it is … Continue reading
I can hear my father’s voice – Sean Penn
I can hear my father’s voice.
And I can hear a few other voices that have, here since, gone on somewhere. Continue reading
Posted in Difference and Diversity, Emancipate yourself..., hearing voices, Ideas, Use The Force
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Hearing voices is more common (and less ‘crazy’) than we might think
A great piece from UK Metro News three years ago with some facts and figures about just how common it is for people to hear voices. And a great graphic too. Hearing voices in our heads is more common (and less … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, human diversity, Ideas, Mad Pride
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Heidegger in the Kitchen
I’m a Jelly Baby, You’re a Jelly Baby. Let’s cook. Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Philosopy or Pill-osophy ?, sh!t is f#cked
Tagged Heidegger, heisenberg, Let's cook, Walter
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The zone of nonbeing
Many folks these days talk of “othering”, its become a verb to other. When we other we categorise some other as “the other” – meaning other than us. and some credit the idea to Franz Fanon. But what is it … Continue reading
Posted in Difference and Diversity, Ideas
Tagged Fanon, non-human
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Disempowered and disconnected
The core experience of trauma is feeling disconnected and disempowered.
Ironic then, that so often our approach to mental health and the systems we build leave people feeling disconnected and disempowered. Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, sh!t is f#cked
Tagged disconnected, disempowered, Healing, Trauma
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Have you ever been part of a family? Peter Senge
Have you ever seen, in a family, people producing consequences in the family – how people feel, how people feel act -that aren’t what anybody intended?
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Posted in Ideas
Tagged family, interdependence, Senge, web
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someday we’ll know – new radicals
I bought a ticket to the end of the rainbow I watched the stars crash into the sea Lyrics Ninety miles outside Chicago Can’t stop driving Don’t know why So many questions I need an answer Two years … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, music
Tagged New Radicals, someday
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I am amazed by the strength of the human spirit and never give up hope
Lucy Johnstone walks us through a day in her life working as clinical psychologist on a community mental health team in an area of great social depravation. She explains how, rather than simply hand them a list of symptom to check … Continue reading
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