January 30, 2010
I have written elsewhere about links between creativity and psychosis. In a recent blog entry, Gianna Kali of “BeyondMeds” links to an article describing how teachers […]
January 23, 2010
Martin Luther King often made the point that it is better NOT to be “adjusted” to injustice, and that psychologists often over-emphasize the value of “adjustment.” […]
November 22, 2009
I’ve had a collection of handouts I’ve given out at seminars I give on CBT for Psychosis and Trauma and Psychosis. Just today I put these […]
November 21, 2009
A double bind was originally thought of as something that happens in communication, especially parent-child communication, where a person gets two contradictory messages, and is also […]
November 20, 2009
I’ve recently been corresponding with a woman, let’s call her Alice, who is concerned about the part of the Eleanor Longden story where Eleanor states that “Hearing […]
November 15, 2009
I was curious about the story linked to below, which talks about how to join a child’s imaginary world in order to relieve their distress. This approach matches […]
October 26, 2009
The City of Eugene, Oregon just this evening passed an official resolution affirming that it is a human right for people to have choice in mental […]
October 25, 2009
Congratulations to Eleanor Longden, who just graduated from college with honors, years after she was told that her “schizophrenia” was hopeless and all she could do for […]
October 18, 2009
You wouldn’t expect to find it in the Wall Street Journal, but writer Jeanette Winterson does an eloquent job of talking about valuable aspects of existence […]