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Category Archives: suicide
A Poem for the Blue Heron – Mary Oliver
A Poem for the Blue Heron 1 Now the blue heron wades the cold ponds of November. In the gray light his hunched shoulders are also gray. He finds scant food – a few numbed breathers under a rind … Continue reading →
Posted in creativity, Disconnection, Mary Oliver, natural world, poetry, sadness & pain, suicide
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Do Psychiatrists Harm their Patients out of Stupidity? Michael Cornwall
https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/06/do-psychiatrists-harm-patients-out-of-stupidity/ Click on the above link to visit http://www.madinamerica.com for this accurate, perceptive piece by Michael about the ‘disease model’ of psychiatry, which lacks both an evidence base and humanity, and challenges basic common sense. Michael is writing in the … Continue reading →
Posted in abuse, accountability, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, borderline personality disorder, civil rights, client as 'expert', clients' perspective, cognitive, communication, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, consent, cultural questions, cultural taboos, dependence, diagnoses of bipolar, Disconnection, DSM, emotions, empathy, ethics, external locus, healing, hearing voices, Mad in America, medical model, non-conforming, objectification, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, RD Laing, reality, sadness & pain, scapegoating, schizophrenia, self concept, suicide, trauma, violence, vulnerability, working with clients
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Tagged Abraham Maslow, abuse of power in psychiatry, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, An Alternative Understanding of The Nature of Madness, archetypal, Are Some Psychiatrists Addicted to Deference, arrogance, Big Pharma and psychiatry, blindly embracing stupidity, broadening perspective, Carl Jung, challenging authority, challenging dissent, challenging ideas, challenging psychiatry, clinical detachment, clinically detached, closed system thinking, cognitive dissonance theory, constraints of the disease model theory, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creating distorted reality, creating self serving narratives, cultic echo chamber of convention, cultural alienation, cultural pressure to conform, cultural trauma, cultural traumatisation, cultural traumatization, culturally accepted range of emotional experiences and expression, culturally permissible range of emotional experiences and expression, curious specimens, Daniel Fisher, death rate of psychiatric patients, demystification, demystifying, Diabasis House, diagnostic labeling, diagnostic labelling, diagnostic labels, disease model of mental illness, disease model theory, disempowering psychiatry, dissident psychiatrists, distorting reality, DSM based funding, ECT, emotional distancing, emotional distress, emotional experience, emotional expression, emotional suffering, emotionally distance, Emperor’s New Clothes, extreme emotional states, extreme experiences, extreme psychological states, extreme states, failed disease model of mental illness, failed theory and practice of psychiatry, first do no harm, forced conformity, forced psychiatric treatment, forced treatment legislation, fundamentalist belief systems, gods have become diseases, harmful psychiatric interventions, heart centered approach, hegemony, hegemony of psychiatric belief system, hegemony of psychiatric power structure, helping people in extreme states, Hippocratic Oath, honoring the sacred, honouring the sacred, hubris of psychiatrists, human rights abuses in psychiatry, humane approaches to helping people, humanistic approach, identity degradation, If Madness isn’t what Psychiatry says, including spiritual experience, injured by psychiatry, invisibility of person in psychiatry, John Weir Perry, lack of compassion, lack of empathy, lack of psychiatric evidence base, legitimising, legitimizing, lifelong psychiatric conditions, logical fallacies, logical fallacy, Loren Mosher, low cost counselling exeter, low tolerance of challenge, marginalising dissent, marginalizing dissent, medicating children, medicating teens, medicating vulnerable seniors, mental health and life expectancy, Michael Cornwall, modern industrial society and alienation, modern industrial society and trauma, mystical, mythic dimensions, non pathologising approach, non pathologizing approach, oppression in psychiatry, ostracising dissent, ostracizing dissent, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perceiving challenge as impertinence, perceiving challenge as threat, person centred counselling exeter, Peter Breggin, politics of oppression, power imbalance, protest against psychiatry, psychiatric belief system, psychiatric collective, psychiatric conditioning, psychiatric dehumanisation, psychiatric disease model, psychiatric human rights abuses, psychiatric indoctrination, psychiatric labeling, psychiatric labelling, psychiatric labels, psychiatric objectification, psychiatry as logical fallacy, psychiatry killing hope, psychic, psychosurgery, questioning authority, range of emotional experiences and expression, reductive psychiatry, relieving emotional discomfort, sacred experience, sacred manifestations, sacredness, schizophrenia, seeking deference, seeking power, self concept, self serving legitimacy, self-structure, shamanic, so called mental illness, Soteria House, soul, toxic economic factors, toxic social factors, Transpersonal, trauma responses, unquestioning conformity, what is madness, www.madinamerica.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Paul Gordon on finding our feelings in therapy
“I suspect we could all tell a story similar to that told by the playwright David Hare recalling his childhood in post-war Britain: ‘In the other half of our semi-detached lived a solicitor and his wife. She had perfectly mastered … Continue reading →
Posted in acceptance, anger, awakening, communication, conditions of worth, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, embodiment, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, fear, growth, healing, human condition, identity, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, resilience, sadness & pain, self, self concept, self esteem, suicide, surrender, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, vulnerability
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Tagged acceptance, acceptance of emotions, acceptance of feelings, acting on emotions, acting on feelings, affordable counselling exeter, appropriate self expression, awakening, bourgeois rituals, complexity, connection, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, David Hare, disconnection, emotions as a gift, empathy, fear, fear of emotion, fear of feeling, feelings as a gift, harming others, Hope of Therapy, hurting others, low cost counselling exeter, organismic, owning emotion, owning feelings, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, Paul Gordon, person centred counselling exeter, power of emotion, power of feelings, presence, recognising emotions, recognising feelings, recognizing emotions, recognizing feelings, repressing emotion, repressing feelings, responsibility for emotion, responsibility for feelings, self acceptance, self expression, self-responsibility, suicide, symbolising experience, symbolizing experience, terror, therapeutic process, unconscious, unconsciousness, William James, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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‘The Death Mother’ Toko-pa
The Death Mother Click on the link for this interesting and profound book review from Toko-pa – containing several useful links – on the archetype and meanings of the Death Mother:- ‘If you were the child of a mother crippled by her own … Continue reading →
Posted in body psychotherapy, child development, childhood abuse, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, dying, Eating, embodiment, emotions, fear, growth, healing, identity, loneliness, metaphor & dream, perception, physical being, power and powerlessness, self, self concept, self esteem, shadow, sleep, suicide, Toko-pa, trauma, vulnerability
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Tagged abandoning ourselves, abandoning yourself, abandonment, aliveness, ambiguity, archetype, assertion, authentic experience, authentic feelings, authenticity, auto-immune diseases, awareness, beauty, being unseen, belittling of the feminine, belonging, Bud Harris, child development, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, collapse, confusion, consciousness, cultural collective, cultural shadow, cultural wound, cultural wounding, Daniela Sieff, death, Death Mother, denigration, depression, devaluation, devaluation of feminine, disapproval, disconnection, disconnection from body, disembodied, disembodiment, dreaming, dreams, dreams and metaphor, dreamwork, earth mother, eating disorders, emotional heritage, emotional paralysis, emotional trauma, engaging with our dreams, expression, fear and overwhelm, fear of abandonment, fear of masculine, fear of men, feminine fear, feminine mistrust, feminine values, feminine wound, finding your voice, grief, grief process, grieving process, growth, healing trauma, inertia, inner valuation, internalised belief, Into the Heart of the Feminine, invalidation, Jungian analysis, longing for death, longing for oblivion, low self esteem, Marion Woodman, Massimilla Harris, Medusa myth, motherhood, mothering, myth, myth and symbol, needing support, order from chaos, out of awareness, overwhelm, overwhelming, paradox, paralysing energy, paralysis, personal shadow, physical expressions of loss of inner valuation, psyche, rejection, repulsion, sacred feminine, Self, self care, self concept, self harm, self neglect, self-abdication, self-structure, shadow, something is wrong with me, suicide, symbolic life, symbolism, Toko-pa, transformation, triggers, trusting yourself, Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma, unwanted aspects of self, unworthiness, women, wounded psyche, yin
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Monica Lewinsky with Jon Ronson
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/16/monica-lewinsky-shame-sticks-like-tar-jon-ronson Click on the link above for today’s post – Monica Lewinsky in a recent interview with Jon Ronson in The Guardian, well worth a read. In 2015, we published a link to, and a piece on, Monica’s wonderful TED talk ‘The … Continue reading →
Posted in abuse, blaming, bullying, compassion, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, consent, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, empathy, empowerment, ethics, fear, Gender & culture, grief, healing, identity, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, loss, Monica Lewinsky, objectification, perception, political, power and powerlessness, sadness & pain, scapegoating, self, self concept, self esteem, sexual being, shadow, shame, shaming, suicide, trauma, trust, violence, vulnerability
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Tagged abuse, acquiring a sense of self, affordable counselling exeter, anti-bullying advocacy, anti-bullying emojis, anti-bullying gifs, betrayal, bigotry, blame and shame model, bullying, bystander apathy, Bystander Revolution, bystanding, civil rights, communication, compassion, competing narrative, conditions of worth, consent, core pain, core trauma, core wound, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cruelty, culture of humiliation, cure for shame, cyber-bullying, de-objectifying, dehumanising, dehumanizing, deobjectifying, developing a sense of self, disconnection, effects of shock, embarrassment, empathy, ethics, exclusion, exposure, fear, fear of ostracisation, feminism, grief, harassment, Human Rights, humiliation, identity, integrating trauma, internet bullying, internet shaming, Jon Ronson, judgement, legitimising bullying, legitimizing bullying, Lindsey Stone, loneliness, loss, low cost counselling exeter, Mike Daisey, misogyny, Monica In Black And White, Monica Lewinsky, mortification, mutual relationship, object of hate, objectification, online bullying, online harassment, ostracisation, ostracising, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, projecting, public humiliation, public shaming, racism, recontextualising experience, recontextualizing experience, resilience, Self, self concept, self esteem, sense of self, shame, Shame and Survival, shaming, shock, shock behaviours, suicide, targeting difference, TED, threat to identity, threatened identity, transformation, trauma, trolling, upstander, upstanding, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Antidepressants can raise the risk of suicide – Sarah Knapton for the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12126146/Antidepressants-can-raise-the-risk-of-suicide-biggest-ever-review-finds.html?utm_content=buffer3d1d3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer We are deeply concerned at this service by the extent of public misinformation and baseless assumptions about the justification for, efficacy/side effects of and withdrawal consequences attached to these drugs – in children and adults. Many GPs appear ill informed and/or disingenuous … Continue reading →
Posted in anti-depressants, CBT, communication, consent, cultural questions, empowerment, ethics, iatrogenic illness, perception, political, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, research evidence, risk, suicide, working with clients
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Contracting & suicidal thoughts, a person-centred perspective
This is the text of a recent email to our therapists on these themes. We are aware of the very different way in which these issues are addressed within the NHS/similar medicalized contexts in health and social care – and the extent to which … Continue reading →
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Tagged actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, being with difficult, being with uncomfortable feeling, breaking confidentiality, Brian Thorne, client autonomy, client confidentiality, coercion in counselling, coercion in mental health, coercion in therapy, confidentiality, congruence, contracting in counselling, core conditions, counselling confidentiality, counselling contracts, counselling exeter, counselling supervision, counselling training, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, counter cultural therapy, creating trust, directivity, disease and disorder model, encounter, external locus, incongruence in therapy, internal locus, low cost counselling exeter, medicalisation of distress, medicalisation of emotion, medicalisation of feeling, medicalisation of human experience, medicalising distress, medicalization of distress, medicalization of emotion, medicalization of feeling, medicalization of human experience, medicalizing distress, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centered contracting, person centred contracting, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, personhood, psychotherapy supervision, safe space, self-determination, self-direction, suicidal clients, suicidal ideation, suicidal ideation and person centered, suicidal ideation and person centred, suicidal thoughts, supporting a suicidal client, therapeutic relationship, therapy supervision, therapy training, trusting the client, what to do if client talks about suicide, written contracting, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Laura Delano ‘Six Years after Booze’
Click on the link below, for a powerful post from Laura. We regularly feature her work on this blog. Huge respect for her personal journey, and her commitment to challenging the current toxic psychiatric paradigm. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter … Continue reading →
Posted in abuse, actualizing tendency, awakening, civil rights, clients' perspective, consciousness, consent, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, empowerment, equality, ethics, external locus, growth, healing, iatrogenic illness, identity, internal locus of evaluation, Laura Delano, loss, paradigm shift, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, resilience, sadness & pain, self, self concept, self esteem, suicide, transformation, trauma, values & principles, violence, vulnerability
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Tagged addictive behaviour, affordable counselling exeter, anti-psychiatry, authenticity, coercive psychiatric treatment, compulsive behaviour, congruence, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, despair, disease and disorder model, external locus, forced psychiatric treatment, growth, healing, holistic approach, holistic healing, identity, internal locus, Laura Delano, loss, love, low cost counselling exeter, medical model, mental health system, mental illness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, personal journey, presence, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, psychiatric treatment, Psychiatry, psychotropic drugs, realness, recovering from psychiatry, relationship, self concept, self trust, self-structure, sense of self, They say you're crazy, trauma, unmet need, well-being, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, www.recoveringfrompsychiatry.com
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Meggie Royer – The Morning After I Killed Myself
Moving, imaginative piece by Meggie on the aftermath of suicide, via BerlinArtParasites. Thanks too to Adam Tan for the picture. Here’s Meggie’s blog:- http://writingsforwinter.tumblr.com/ And here are her books:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Survival-Songs-Meggie-C-Royer-ebook/dp/B00EPQ4LVO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1442573725&sr=8-3&keywords=meggie+royer http://www.amazon.co.uk/No-You-Never-Listened/dp/0692463631/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442573725&sr=8-1&keywords=meggie+royer http://www.amazon.co.uk/Healing-Old-Wounds-New-Stitches-ebook/dp/B010ML1NM0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1442573725&sr=8-2&keywords=meggie+royer And here’s a recent post on a linked … Continue reading →
Posted in beauty, creativity, dying, grief, growing up, immanence, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, loss, love, perception, poetry, power and powerlessness, relationship, sadness & pain, self, suicide
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Tagged Adam Tan, affordable counselling exeter, aftermath of suicide, belonging, bereaved by suicide, bereavement by suicide, berlin art parasites, BerlinArtParasites, connectedness, connection, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, effect of suicide, grief, interconnection, interdependence, intolerable pain, killing yourself, loss, love, low cost counselling exeter, Meggie Royer, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, relationship, sadness, suicide, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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This Is What A Suicidal Crisis Looks Like From The Inside – Alaina Mabaso
http://www.depressionarmy.com/ourblog/2015/8/2/this-is-what-a-suicidal-crisis-looks-like-from-the-inside Very powerful piece by Alaina, for which many thanks. I know this landscape of bleak despair, and the urge to die. Since I was a teenager, I have visited it from time to time. During my training as a … Continue reading →
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