May 25, 2018
“Acceptance and Commitment Therapy” or “ACT” is a way of working with experience that focuses on just accepting difficult experiences while shifting attention to moving toward […]
May 14, 2018
Stories organize us, and “bad stories” organize us in destructive ways. In this post I will address one example: the story told about how skilled mental […]
April 14, 2018
In the last few years I’ve been working with ISPS-US to produce videos of webinar presentations on a variety of innovative approaches to psychosis, approaches which […]
March 18, 2018
The possible benefits of the drugs called “antipsychotics” are pretty easy to comprehend – there is the possibility of a quick calming of what are often […]
March 10, 2018
In an article published online by the Journal of Humanistic Psychology on 3/7/18, I argue that the mainstream view of “psychosis” is way too narrow, and […]
February 8, 2018
What does it mean to heal after a psychotic episode? Is it just about trying to “get back to normality” and to suppress any further “psychosis” […]
December 20, 2017
One of the most damaging aspects of the mainstream understanding of “mental health” difficulties is that they are conceptualized as a problem separate from the bigger […]
December 3, 2017
Going mad involves breaking away from, or losing touch with, group norms and ideas about reality. This routinely leads many to even extreme levels of distress […]
September 17, 2017
A recent study showed that just a brief internet-based CBT intervention aimed at improving sleep was also effective in reducing paranoia and hallucinations. (You can access […]