May 24, 2009
When people dream, they are “completely out of touch with reality” and they take totally seriously the most fantastic and improbable perceptions. When people are psychotic, […]
May 8, 2009
Before most of my blog vanished into cyberspace, I had posted a link to a MindFreedom document that compares the myths that people are told about […]
May 8, 2009
Will Hall was recently interviewed about Mad Pride in Newsweek, see http://www.newsweek.com/id/195694 In response to this article, a mental health worker I know questioned how people […]
May 3, 2009
I was recently reviewing an article, (Nettle 2006) (see the abstract below) that makes some really interesting observations that pertain to the relationship between psychosis and […]
April 26, 2009
A really great article, that explains the consequences of being indoctrinated into a biological model of “illness” versus the results of being understood as a human […]
April 26, 2009
I’m pasting in below, with permission of the author, a summary of some sources of first person accounts of experience with mental health issues and with […]
April 18, 2009
Brian Koehler wrote that “I like to reassure myself through Winnicott’s maxim-we succeed by failing our patients-failing them in a way that is tolerable, acknowledged, and […]
March 28, 2009
I recently read an article on teenagers, brain pruning, and how apparent differences in brain pruning seem to occur in individuals headed toward “schizophrenia.” Some dots […]
January 15, 2007
If you ask most people, they will tell you that schizophrenia is a specific “illness” which causes various “symptoms,” usually some combination of delusional thinking, hallucinations, […]