Category Archives: Ideas

Baboons in suits

Posted on September 12, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Robert Sapolsky on how hierarchy has a destructive force in body and psyche in individuals and community. He is talking about baboons, the ones he’s observed for decades along with the effects of stress upon health and behaviour. His observation … Continue reading →

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how psychiatric diagnosis becomes “proof” of the “chemical imbalance” that causes psychiatric diagnosis

Posted on August 29, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Psychiatric diagnosis is proof of the chemical imbalance that causes psychiatric diagnosis. Continue reading →

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Normal is that which none of us quite are

Posted on August 28, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

There are no normal people,
any more than there are normal dogs, normal giraffes 
normal events, normal days, average … Continue reading →

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Workshop#1- Accepting Voices @ UoT: Fri 27 October 2017

Posted on August 24, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Shortlink: http://wp.me/p1gxmN-47E This workshop is open to all.  Registration is required, limited places available. NOTE: If you are a current Grad Student at U of T please see note about spaces available to you for free through UTGSU Grad Minds. … Continue reading →

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Chokehold: Stop and Frisk

Posted on August 14, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Stop-and-frisks are brutal assertions of police dominance on African American men, through sexual harassment, torture and even terrorism. Continue reading →

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Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic

Posted on August 2, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

We will likely be told we have “lost touch with reality”, whatever that means, when the truth is it’s really not hard to understand: we are struggling to feel safe in the world. Continue reading →

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Colonialism is a factory in which madness is manufactured

Posted on July 17, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

  Achille Mbembe talking about the importance of Franz Fanons’ ideas in today’s world and his own emerging ideas, which he says are “preliminary”, and only “sketched-out” around what he calls the  “politics of viscerality”- how the political situation or … Continue reading →

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Carnval des Voix comes to Oshawa, Ontario

Posted on July 14, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Big Yo! to all the peeps and voices who came out for Carnival des Voix yesterday.
In Oshawa, Ontario. Continue reading →

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What we need to talk about is…

Posted on July 12, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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talking about “psychosis”…

Posted on July 11, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Psychosis is not a “thing” except as a kind of  aperture or a lens through which we view someone struggling. It’s an interpretation, a way of seeing, of categorizing, naming, and talking about a person’s struggle. That that lens, that … Continue reading →

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