July 10, 2009
Earlier today I was informed by the director of our county mental health agency, where I work only a few hours per week, that I am […]
July 9, 2009
Many people are still convinced that the “scientific” understanding is that if a person is diagnosed with a “mental illness” such as “schizophrenia” then this means […]
July 4, 2009
If “schizophrenia” and “bipolar disorder” and such are not real “biologically based brain disorders” or “biochemical imbalances” then what does account for the difficult experiences and […]
June 28, 2009
At least here and there, mental health authorities are recognizing that it is a problem that people in the public mental health system are dying 25 […]
May 29, 2009
Too often, our mental health systems are more oriented toward “drug and keep out of trouble” than they are toward recovery (even when they say they […]
May 24, 2009
When people dream, they are “completely out of touch with reality” and they take totally seriously the most fantastic and improbable perceptions. When people are psychotic, […]
May 8, 2009
Before most of my blog vanished into cyberspace, I had posted a link to a MindFreedom document that compares the myths that people are told about […]
May 3, 2009
I was recently reviewing an article, (Nettle 2006) (see the abstract below) that makes some really interesting observations that pertain to the relationship between psychosis and […]
April 26, 2009
A really great article, that explains the consequences of being indoctrinated into a biological model of “illness” versus the results of being understood as a human […]