August 14, 2010
I just ran across an interesting article on psychosis and spirituality. It starts off by pointing out that “Psychotic and religious experiences have been associated since […]
August 14, 2010
The latest way to sell antipsychotic drugs appears to be to tell people that psychosis will damage your brain, and so people need antipsychotic medications to […]
July 30, 2010
What follows is a handout I designed to give to people to help them think through whether they really want to try psychiatric medications. Imagine how […]
July 24, 2010
I spent some time down by the river today, alternating between reading and swimming, and learned a new concept (and a term to go with it) […]
July 11, 2010
“Schizophrenia” can be seen as revolving around having difficulty in containing opposites, such as love and aggression. In normal everyday culture, opposites are often contained simply […]
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 […]