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https://recoverynet.ca/2021/08/30/hearing-voices-workshop-1-accepting-voices-sat-oct-30th/ Workshop: UN_ESCALATE Sat 27th Nov 27 & Sat 4th Dec 2021
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FREE Booklet: Hearing Voices – A Normal Human Experience
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Psychosis is…
Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic”
Staircase of Oppression in Mental Health
Where do you feel it in your body ?
MAD, innit?
Psychosis 2.0 Infosheet
The Voices are Real – and now The Shirts Are Real Too
Tag Archives: Psychiatry
Why Mass Murderers May Not Be Very Different From You Or Me
Opinion piece by Richard A Friedman in NYT, 8 Aug 2019. The current [and for some while] habit of dismissing mass murders as acts of “mentally ill monsters” has no basis in anything but unthinkin predjudice and habitual hatred – … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Beast, fear, hate, mental illness, Monster, Psychiatry, psychosis
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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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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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psychiatry – disabled by fear of the voices others hear ?
Does Psychiatry fears the voices it cannot hear? What might they be saying, maybe they are talking about how psychiatry clearly has a case of Norfolk & Clue and clearly has only one coping mechanism – making us as dependent on drugs … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, sh!t is f#cked, what's going on?
Tagged chip butty, fear, fear doctrine, Psychiatry, voices
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restraint and seclusion: torture, not “treatment”
We ran a series of posts the last few days on the effects of isolating people , and depriving them of sensory stimulation. We propose that anyone – without exception would be tested by being forcibly kept in a … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, sh!t is f#cked
Tagged Psychiatry, Torture, treatment, UN Special Rapporteur
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Scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents – Max Planck
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, The Mad Ones
Tagged Max Planck, Psychiatry, quantum, quantum mechanics, Solvay Conference, soul, soul-healing
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Psychiatry: the Drug Pushers – Will Self
Writer Will Self knows a thing or two about drugs – he was once [in]famously sacked for admitting he had snorted heroine on the [UK] Prime Minister’s plane – so he likely also knows how to spot a drug pusher: … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, medication madness, Psychiatry, The Mad Ones
Tagged drugs, DSM, mental health, Psychiatric medication, Psychiatry
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The Voices in my head – Eleanor Longden
Eleanor Longden’s inspiring talk that she delivered in March at TED 2013. Related articles TED: Eleanor Longden: The voices inside my head – Eleanor Longden (2013) (ted.com) Treating the diagnosis rather than the individual: A look at the increase in … Continue reading
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Tagged Eleanor Longden, mental health, Psychiatry, TED
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DSM-5 and The Crisis in Psychiatry – Philip Thomas
We are delighted today to be able to share the text and slides from the talk given by Phil Thomas at Now We’re all Crazy- What’s Next? on Mon 8th July as part of Mad Pride Toronto 2013. Phil Thomas … Continue reading
Cuckoo – On being sane in insane places. pt 4
“Around the same time that the Jack Nicholson character in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest was trying to get out of psychiatric hospital, a group of eight people were doing just the opposite.” So begins this excellent radio show … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, hearing voices, medication madness, The Mad Ones
Tagged asylum, cuckoo, cuckoo's nest, David Rosenhan, Jack Nicholson, Psychiatry, Rached, Rosenhan experiment
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