March 21, 2022
You may have noticed that people diagnosed with psychosis are often encouraged to think of themselves as passive victims of their disorder. Psychosis is commonly framed […]
February 8, 2022
When mental health professionals encounter someone who seems to have “persecutory delusions,” they routinely assume there must be something wrong with the person’s brain, something that […]
January 14, 2022
Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) is a form of integrative individual psychotherapy that seeks to assist adults diagnosed with psychosis to make sense and meaning […]
November 26, 2021
When we feel sane, we believe we possess accurate ways of knowing reality. Hidden within this understanding however lies a curious circularity. When asked how we […]
November 21, 2021
“I would like to dedicate this award to all the other mad kids, to all the outsiders, the weirdos, the bullied, the ones so strange they […]
August 2, 2021
We now know that therapy can be helpful for psychosis. But there is still a lot of confusion around what type of therapy approach is helpful, […]
July 17, 2021
When we go into severe mental health crisis, it can feel like a civil war inside, with various voices, demons, or other entities engaged in battle […]
May 3, 2021
Have you ever met people who reported that “asking too many questions” was what seemed to have led them into madness? Or maybe you noticed yourself […]
April 24, 2021
In a talk linked to below, award winning medical journalist Robert Whitaker reviews the science that indicates the need for a radical change in psychiatric care, […]