February 27, 2023
Traditionally, psychiatry has taken the position that “getting out of your mind” is a bad thing: they have made “normality” in thinking the standard for health, […]
January 24, 2021
What are the relationships between the experiences caused by psychedelic drugs, and those we call “psychosis?” And what are the relationships between both those types of […]
September 15, 2019
When we relate with each other, a key thing we long for is to have the other see meaning in our experience, while we notice and […]
September 7, 2018
My colleague John Herold has an interesting image he uses to communicate the conventional mental health approach to disturbing mental states: it is that of a […]
December 20, 2017
One of the most damaging aspects of the mainstream understanding of “mental health” difficulties is that they are conceptualized as a problem separate from the bigger […]
May 29, 2017
Is madness good for something? If so, there’s something wrong with the medical conceptualization of it as simply an “illness.” That’s probably why anyone who tries […]