August 29, 2010
I found a link to a very interesting article on the Beyond Meds site. The article is called The Creativity Crisis and it documents how creativity is […]
August 28, 2010
A week ago or so I posted a review of Robert Whitaker’s book Anatomy of an Epidemic on Amazon.com. The purpose of doing so was to address what […]
August 20, 2010
A lot of the hopelessness around “schizophrenia” has to do with beliefs that it is rooted in brain differences and so cannot be “talked away.” One […]
August 16, 2010
Quite awhile ago I received, via Twitter, a link to an article that purports to distinguish between mysticism and psychosis, written by a psychiatrist. I started to […]
August 14, 2010
I just ran across an interesting article on psychosis and spirituality. It starts off by pointing out that “Psychotic and religious experiences have been associated since […]
August 14, 2010
The latest way to sell antipsychotic drugs appears to be to tell people that psychosis will damage your brain, and so people need antipsychotic medications to […]
July 30, 2010
What follows is a handout I designed to give to people to help them think through whether they really want to try psychiatric medications. Imagine how […]
July 24, 2010
I spent some time down by the river today, alternating between reading and swimming, and learned a new concept (and a term to go with it) […]
July 11, 2010
“Schizophrenia” can be seen as revolving around having difficulty in containing opposites, such as love and aggression. In normal everyday culture, opposites are often contained simply […]