July 3, 2010
I just did a rough draft of a handout which surveys the possible options when responding to voices and other intrusive experiences. I’m curious to hear […]
June 20, 2010
When a person has a voice that tells one to kill oneself or others, or to do other irrational or horrible things, it is easy to decide […]
May 21, 2010
I just finished Whitaker’s “Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America.” I thought I would probably […]
May 14, 2010
Many of you have probably been aware of two prior World Health Organization (WHO) studies that showed almost twice the recovery rates from “schizophrenia” in developing […]
May 12, 2010
My county, Lane County, Oregon, is one of a number of places around the country just starting to participate in a new “early intervention” program sponsored by […]
May 1, 2010
Will Hall brought to my attention an article called “A Find Madness: Sanity and Creativity” that has some good stories that illustrate the need to go […]
April 30, 2010
As I pointed out at a recent mental health system meeting in my county, people with mental health problems face two kinds of risks. The first […]
April 25, 2010
Richard Bentall, in his book Doctoring the Mind: Is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? (p. 222) points out that antipsychotics seem to be […]
April 18, 2010
I recently read a very interesting and mostly helpful document by the UK charity Rethink, 100 ways to support recovery. However, I had some reactions to […]