August 2, 2021
We now know that therapy can be helpful for psychosis. But there is still a lot of confusion around what type of therapy approach is helpful, […]
February 27, 2020
When people are told they have “psychosis,” it’s usually because they are experiencing one or both of the following: “hallucinations,” defined as sensations that don’t seem […]
March 10, 2018
In an article published online by the Journal of Humanistic Psychology on 3/7/18, I argue that the mainstream view of “psychosis” is way too narrow, and […]
March 17, 2017
When I was trained to be a mental health therapist, I was taught how to offer therapy for wide variety of psychological problems – but not […]
May 22, 2016
What exactly are “mental health problems”? In the mainstream, psychological difficulties are seen as “symptoms” of an “illness” or “mental disorder” and based on this the […]
June 24, 2015
Cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT has been pretty heavily criticized by a number of Mad in America (MIA) bloggers and commenters in the past few years. […]
June 6, 2015
If you are a mental health worker and if your experience is similar to that of many, you may have noticed most or all of the […]
November 22, 2014
As awareness spreads about there being something wrong with existing approaches to “psychosis” aka “madness,” interest grows in exploring what to do instead. One interesting meeting […]
July 19, 2014
The kinds of experience we call psychotic are often incredibly scary: people feel they are being persecuted by strange forces, or that their brains have been […]