June 27, 2019
When people are fully informed about a proposed mental health treatment, they should be familiar with three things: What are the likely benefits of the treatment […]
June 2, 2019
“Don’t React – Choose How to Relate to Distressing Voices!” is the subject of a webinar that was presented by Dr. Mark Hayward on 6/20/19. (See […]
May 14, 2019
I’ve been intrigued by the way the battle against mental health system oppression has drawn on two important and powerful ideas – which happen to contradict […]
April 24, 2019
When people have problems with voices, the most common recommendation they are given is to try to avoid them – to take drugs to make them […]
February 23, 2019
” The approach is not so much trans-diagnostic as dismantling of diagnosis, and includes a perspective on psychosis that sees it as part of a wider […]
January 11, 2019
When someone is “mad” or “psychotic,” should the people around them try to make sense of their experience and of what they are saying? Or should […]
November 17, 2018
Cognitive therapy is probably still understood by most to be about trying to reduce or dispute “thinking errors” or such. But last week, at the ISPS-US […]
November 4, 2018
A colleague recently suggested to me that one of the very worst (yet common) practices in modern mental health treatment is the one of telling people […]
September 7, 2018
My colleague John Herold has an interesting image he uses to communicate the conventional mental health approach to disturbing mental states: it is that of a […]