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Category Archives: Ideas
The cosmic perspective – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Do you sometimes start your day whining at the universe for giving you crap? Well, maybe on those days, you woke with an… “unjustifiably large ego”. . . . . Right: Toronto at night from the International Space Station – … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Philosopy or Pill-osophy ?, The Mad Ones
Tagged big, cosmos, ego, Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Those things I decided not to give away – Nelson Mandela
In the video below William Jefferson Clinton talking at the UN on Nelson Mandela’s 95th birthday last week, telling of a few things he learned and that we might all learn from Nelson Mandela. Listen to all 12min, or go … Continue reading
Rosenhan – On Being Sane in Insane Places. pt 3
In this brief video David Rosenhan talks about the experiment, the experiences of the pseudo patients and observations on the environment inside psychiatric hospital – as warehouses for people whom society has given up on and lost sympathy for. Below the video is Rosenhan’s Paper published … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, The Mad Ones
Tagged David Rosenhan, DSM, Psychiatry, Rosenhan experiment
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reducing the pool of normal
Has the biomedical myth : the one that has so completely dominated psychiatry and so, by extension, all “mental health” services , either by design or accident, succeeded in reducing our idea of normal human experience to the point that … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, The Mad Ones
Tagged APA, British Empire, DSM, DSM-5, Mental disorder, mental health
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is this the real thing…?
Is this the real thing or is this just fantasy? What is “real”? Is it just the crap on TV? If so, is it only real if it’s called “reality TV”? And if it is reality TV whose reality is it … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, psychosis, The Mad Ones
Tagged Muppets, reality, Reality television, Start Trek, Television, William James
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the mad ones – Jack Kerouac
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Tagged Keouac, mad, on the road, spiders, stars
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a whole chorus of someones…
Psychiatric patients always have someone (or a whole chorus of someones) telling them what they are supposed to do. -Elyn Saks a tale of mental illness from the inside recoverynetwork:Toronto schizophrenia – sentence or diagnosis? recoverynetwork:Toronto
love after love – Derek Walcott
Love After Love – Derek Walcott reading by Tom O’Bedlam The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, … Continue reading
what is to give light…
Victor Emil Frankl discovered a thing or two about what it takes to endure the most un-endurable circumstances and to find our way through…
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