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Psychosis is…
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Tag Archives: Healing
“Depression” : a call to deep rest ?
The language of “mental health” pretends to an authority and a scientific exactitude it does not deserve and never earned.And, this language rarely offers much help when it comes to really understanding our pain, making sense of how we got … Continue reading
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Tagged bollox, deep rest, depression, Healing, Jim Carrey
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Robert Scaer – New Traumatology and the Trauma Spectrum
Trauma is not what happened in the past but it is about how we experience what happens now. How we experience this moment is shaped by how we experienced every moment we experienced before this one. If we experience event … Continue reading
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Tagged Healing, resilience, Robert Scaer, trauma dissociation, wound
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Trauma is the effect left within us by our experience….
Dr Robert Scaer… “In Western medicine we incorrectly categorize trauma by the events that happen when, in fact, it is the effect left within us by our experience. “ As he introduces himself here, “humble country traumatologist from Colorado” who, … Continue reading
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How we can bring about mental health support to refugees – Essam Daod-
Essam Daod shares a story of one way we can bring brief, important support to refugees at critical times. And also offers us a window of insight into how any of us might support any other of us midst potentially … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Crazy World, Emancipate yourself..., Trauma, woundedness
Tagged Healing, Psychiatry, resilience, soul, Trauma
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Grounding Trauma Conference 2018 : Challenging Paradigms. 17th, 18th April 2018
Very pleased to have been invited to co-present with Jennifer Wynne a the CAST Grounding Trauma Conference 2018. Neither trauma nor difficult experiences that called names like “psychosis” are as mysterious or hard to understand as many experts would have … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, hearing voices, making sense of "mental illlness", psychosis
Tagged community, Healing, hearing voices, Trauma
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Psychiatry’s Identity Crisis ?
Op-Ed piece in New York Times by Psychiatrist and Psychopharmacologist Richard A. Friedman on the limitations of his own profession’s claims to being the world’s foremost authority and body of knowledge but yet limits its own understanding of the struggles … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, mental illness? or..., Psychiatry, sh!t is f#cked
Tagged drugs, Healing, Psychiatry, soul, therapy
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The doctor who gave up drugs
What in the west we call “medicine” is not the only medicine: there are many ways of practising medicine, some of which are more common and have been around for far longer than western “civilisation”. Indeed if you take a … Continue reading
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