January 31, 2020
According to fact sheets published by the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) psychosis is caused either by a “mental illness” or by the current […]
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 […]
January 6, 2013
I was interviewed for the Psychope website for their “feature of the month.” You can read the interview on their website, or catch it below (though […]
March 10, 2012
In the field of “psychosis” it seems that many things are discovered, then forgotten again, and it is left to future generations to rediscover them. Carl […]
October 6, 2011
While the mental health field is just starting to acknowledge that “madness” or psychosis is often a response to trauma, I think it is important to […]
January 8, 2011
There is a perennial question directed toward those of us who see madness as having a spiritual dimension, and it goes something like this: “How can […]
September 5, 2010
In the immediately preceding post, I wrote that: Where do all the distortions that are common to what we see as psychosis come from? That’s the […]
March 19, 2010
Richard Bentall, in his book Doctoring the Mind: Is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? describes how researchers first noticed and tested the […]
February 17, 2010
A great deal of research shows that one of the more common effects of child sexual abuse is “auditory hallucinations” or hearing voices and other experiences […]