September 22, 2013
The core of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, is the idea of simply accepting, rather than trying to get rid of, disturbing or unwanted inner […]
September 7, 2013
What would happen if professionals opened their minds about the nature of madness? What new possibilities might be created if they questioned labels such as “schizophrenia” […]
August 22, 2013
While some will frame Eleanor’s story, told in her awesome TED video, as the triumph of an individual struggling against “mental illness,” I believe the story […]
June 18, 2013
While a 2 year outcome study by Wunderink et al has been cited as evidence that guided discontinuation of antipsychotics for people whose psychosis has remitted […]
May 4, 2013
While some people find their lives ruined by belief in imagined conspiracies that affect them personally – they may isolate from, or even attack, friends and […]
April 21, 2013
Earth Day 2013 is a good time to reflect on how problems in our mental health system reflect deep flaws in “normal” conceptions of what it […]
March 19, 2013
Here’s a link to a 45 minute or so lecture by Richard Bentall, researcher and author of . In it he reviews his perspective on the […]
March 9, 2013
As I’ve been learning compassion focused therapy, I’ve been struck by the way our “threat system” can itself become a threat to our wellbeing when it […]
February 27, 2013
I was recently reading a chapter on Compassion Focused Therapy by Paul Gilbert and encountered the following description: ….one might engage with the compassionate self and […]