April 26, 2009
I’m pasting in below, with permission of the author, a summary of some sources of first person accounts of experience with mental health issues and with […]
April 18, 2009
Brian Koehler wrote that “I like to reassure myself through Winnicott’s maxim-we succeed by failing our patients-failing them in a way that is tolerable, acknowledged, and […]
March 28, 2009
I recently read an article on teenagers, brain pruning, and how apparent differences in brain pruning seem to occur in individuals headed toward “schizophrenia.” Some dots […]
January 15, 2007
If you ask most people, they will tell you that schizophrenia is a specific “illness” which causes various “symptoms,” usually some combination of delusional thinking, hallucinations, […]
December 12, 2006
(Note, this is a very old post, and at least many of the problems reported with the EAST program no longer exist, as they have been […]
December 12, 2006
The Merrian-Webster online dictionary defines psychosis as “fundamental derangement of the mind (as in schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality especially as evidenced […]
December 5, 2006
While anti-psychotic, or more properly “neuroleptic” medications often appear to be helpful in the short term, they have never been proven to be helpful to long […]