March 21, 2022
You may have noticed that people diagnosed with psychosis are often encouraged to think of themselves as passive victims of their disorder. Psychosis is commonly framed […]
February 8, 2022
When mental health professionals encounter someone who seems to have “persecutory delusions,” they routinely assume there must be something wrong with the person’s brain, something that […]
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 20, 2021
When people talk about finding something of value in “mad” or “psychotic” or “extreme” experiences, they are usually accused by those in mainstream psychiatry of “romanticizing […]
June 2, 2019
“Don’t React – Choose How to Relate to Distressing Voices!” is the subject of a webinar that was presented by Dr. Mark Hayward on 6/20/19. (See […]
April 24, 2019
When people have problems with voices, the most common recommendation they are given is to try to avoid them – to take drugs to make them […]
January 11, 2019
When someone is “mad” or “psychotic,” should the people around them try to make sense of their experience and of what they are saying? Or should […]
June 9, 2017
Danielle Knafo Ph.D. is a leader in the field of psychoanalytic approach to psychosis, so I’m very pleased she was the presenter for the ISPS-US webinar, […]
November 19, 2016
As we view what many of us perceive to be the wreckage of our political system in the USA, it’s interesting to reflect on what this […]