May 12, 2010
My county, Lane County, Oregon, is one of a number of places around the country just starting to participate in a new “early intervention” program sponsored by […]
May 1, 2010
Will Hall brought to my attention an article called “A Find Madness: Sanity and Creativity” that has some good stories that illustrate the need to go […]
April 30, 2010
As I pointed out at a recent mental health system meeting in my county, people with mental health problems face two kinds of risks. The first […]
April 25, 2010
Richard Bentall, in his book Doctoring the Mind: Is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? (p. 222) points out that antipsychotics seem to be […]
April 18, 2010
I recently read a very interesting and mostly helpful document by the UK charity Rethink, 100 ways to support recovery. However, I had some reactions to […]
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 […]