March 19, 2010
Richard Bentall, in his book Doctoring the Mind: Is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? describes how researchers first noticed and tested the […]
February 17, 2010
A great deal of research shows that one of the more common effects of child sexual abuse is “auditory hallucinations” or hearing voices and other experiences […]
February 12, 2010
In an article titled ” Effects of Culture on Recovery From Transient Psychosis” the author asks why premodern cultures studied by the World Health Organization had 10 times […]
February 6, 2010
People often become psychotic because they face a problem or set of problems that appears overwhelming to them. Then what happens is they get tricked into […]
January 30, 2010
I have written elsewhere about links between creativity and psychosis. In a recent blog entry, Gianna Kali of “BeyondMeds” links to an article describing how teachers […]
January 23, 2010
Martin Luther King often made the point that it is better NOT to be “adjusted” to injustice, and that psychologists often over-emphasize the value of “adjustment.” […]
November 22, 2009
I’ve had a collection of handouts I’ve given out at seminars I give on CBT for Psychosis and Trauma and Psychosis. Just today I put these […]
November 21, 2009
A double bind was originally thought of as something that happens in communication, especially parent-child communication, where a person gets two contradictory messages, and is also […]
November 20, 2009
I’ve recently been corresponding with a woman, let’s call her Alice, who is concerned about the part of the Eleanor Longden story where Eleanor states that “Hearing […]