January 16, 2015
When people are seeing the world really different than we do, it’s often reassuring to think that there must be something wrong with them – because […]
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 […]
May 18, 2014
As we develop critical awareness about the mental health “treatments” that don’t work and that often make things much worse, the question inevitably comes up, what […]
April 19, 2014
Rachael (Rai) Waddingham has made available a presentation by herself with lots of good ideas for anyone trying to help a child or adolescent do better […]
April 8, 2014
My friend Daniel Mackler has made films recognized around the world, covering a variety of psychological and social approaches to psychosis. They are available in a […]
March 9, 2014
One idea I’ve been intrigued by for awhile is the notion that psychosis can arise from attempts to heal dissociation. Dissociation is all very ordered and […]
September 22, 2013
The core of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, is the idea of simply accepting, rather than trying to get rid of, disturbing or unwanted inner […]
September 7, 2013
What would happen if professionals opened their minds about the nature of madness? What new possibilities might be created if they questioned labels such as “schizophrenia” […]