April 30, 2011
I recently finished reading the book “Unshrinking Psychosis: Understanding and Healing the Wounded Soul” by John Watkins. I found it to be a wise and well […]
April 29, 2011
Portland, Oregon is having a 2 day event to highlight problems with the current mental health system and possible changes on May 13 and 14, 2011. […]
April 10, 2011
When people are trying to get off neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medications, they often run into a problem like the following. The medication is reduced, then some kind […]
April 3, 2011
Psychiatrists working within our current mental health system often complain they have no choice other than to practice as they do, which usually involves, for example, […]
March 27, 2011
Given the recent events in the Middle East, it’s an interesting time to think about revolution. One pattern often seen in revolutions is where when the […]
March 20, 2011
On the Beautiful Minds blog, the latest entry is titled Is Psychosis a Prerequisite for Art? The author states his opinion that ” If the mental processes […]
March 19, 2011
Recent research showed again that people diagnosed with “schizophrenia” tend to “jump to conclusions” sooner than do most people, and this causes them to do poorly on many […]
March 17, 2011
Daniel Mackler just released his newest film, “Open Dialogue” — on the Finnish Open Dialogue Project A trailer for the film is on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBjIvnRFja4 Also, there’s […]
March 9, 2011
While I have done some introductory seminars in CBT for psychosis, there is now on the East Coast a new factility that goes well beyond that: “The […]