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Tag Archives: Beyond Meds
The most alive sadness in your heart – Matt Licata
Click on the link to visit this post on http://www.beyondmeds.com – beautiful words from Matt about an inward process of awakening, and coming to a deeper, fuller experience of what it is to be human:- http://beyondmeds.com/2014/09/23/sadness-in-your-heart/ This includes a link … Continue reading
Posted in actualizing tendency, beauty, consciousness, creativity, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, love, Matt Licata, mindfulness, Monica Cassani, natural world, organismic experiencing, perception, person centred, physical being, reality, relationship, spirituality, vulnerability, wonder
Tagged awakening consciousness, Beyond Meds, coming alive, compassion, conscious living, consciousness, core conditions, counselling exeter, despair, grief, heartbreak, kindness, Licata, loneliness, love, Matt Licata, mindfulness, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person-centered, person-centred, reality, sadness, vulnerability
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“I Much Prefer the Idea of Humans Just Helping Humans”: Daniel Mackler
http://madinamericainternationalfilmfestival.com/much-prefer-idea-humans-just-helping-humans-interview-daniel-mackler-open-dialogue-healing-homes/ Click on the link for this great interview with Daniel Mackler, for Mad in America (thanks Laura Delano for putting us onto this). There is tons of good stuff here. We too prefer the idea of ‘humans helping humans’ over … Continue reading
Posted in Carl Rogers, client as 'expert', clients' perspective, conflict, core conditions, cultural questions, empathy, ethics, external locus, fear, healing, internal locus of evaluation, Laura Delano, love, Mad in America, medical model, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person centred, political, power, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, regulation, relationship, risk, shadow, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, values & principles, working with clients
Tagged A Way Out of Madness, Beyond Medication, Beyond Meds, Carl Rogers, Coming off Psych Drugs, core conditions, counselling exeter, Daniel Mackler, empathy, Family Care Foundation, Healing Homes, Mad in America, medical model, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, Monica Cassani, Open Dialogue, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person-centred, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, Psychiatry, Psychosis, regulation in therapy, regulation of therapy, schizophrenia, Take These Broken Wings, therapeutic relationship, UPR
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Joanna Moncrieff: A Critique of Genetic Research on Schizophrenia
…or, as she subtitles it, ‘Expensive Castles in the Air’. Click on the link to http://www.beyondmeds.com (thank you, Monica) for a post on this with a link onwards to Joanna’s own site. Beyond Meds offers a vast treasure chest of … Continue reading
Posted in Carl Rogers, cultural questions, genetics, healing, human condition, Joanna Moncrieff, medical model, Monica Cassani, organismic experiencing, person centred, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, research evidence
Tagged Beyond Meds, Carl Rogers, counselling exeter, extreme mental states, genes for schizophrenia, genetic research, genetic research into schizophrenia, Joanna Moncrieff, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, Monica Cassani, organismic experience, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person-centred, schizophrenia, www.beyondmeds.com
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The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit – Donald Kalsched
http://beyondmeds.com/2014/08/14/inner-world-of-trauma/ Click on the link to visit this post about Donald Kalsched’s book: The Inner World of Trauma, on Monica Cassani’s useful and resource-rich blog, http://www.beyondmeds.com. We do a lot of work at this service with people bringing traumatic experiences to … Continue reading
Posted in abuse, child development, childhood abuse, consciousness, Donald Kalsched, identity, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, self, trauma
Tagged archetypal defence, archetypes, Beyond Meds, child development, childhood trauma, counselling exeter, depersonalization, disintegration anxiety, dissociation, dissociative, Donald Kalsched, ego, Freud, idealization or diabolization, Inner World of Trauma, Kohut, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, personality theory, primitive agonies, projective identification, protective shield, psychic numbing, psychoanalytic theory, Self, splitting, switching among multiple centers of identity, The Inner World of Trauma Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit, trance-states, trauma, Winnicott
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Wendell Berry – The Peace of Wild Things
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, consciousness, gratitude, healing, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, love, Monica Cassani, natural world, organismic experiencing, perception, physical being, poetry, spirituality, wonder
Tagged beauty, Beyond Meds, comfort, consciousness, counselling exeter, despair, faith, Gaia, grace, human condition, love, Monica Cassani, natural beauty, natural world, nature, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, spirituality, The Peace of Wild Things, trust, Wendell Berry
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Russell Baugher on being forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward at 15
The teen was not psychotic, but the antipsychotics were Deeply shocking and distressing account by Russell of his experiences as a teenager. This happened in the US. We have heard similar accounts from the UK – nor can we comfort ourselves … Continue reading
Posted in anti-depressants, child development, clients' perspective, cultural questions, Disconnection, education, ethics, external locus, growing up, internal locus of evaluation, medical model, Monica Cassani, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, Russell Baugher, trauma
Tagged anti psychotic medication, anti-depressants, Beyond Meds, Birth of a Patient, core conditions, forced psychiatric detention, forced psychiatric hospitalisation, forced psychiatric hospitalization, forced psychiatric treatment, gender, iatrogenic illness, medical model, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person-centred, psychiatric drug recovery, psychiatric drug withdrawal, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric drugs in childhood, psychiatric medication, psychiatric model, Russell Baugher, school refusal, sectioning, sexual being, Thioridazine
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The Compliant Kid: Russell Baugher
Click on the title/link for this powerful ‘client’s eye’ account from Russell Baugher about his experience in childhood and beyond taking psychiatric drugs, and his recovery/healing process, posted on Monica Cassani’s resource rich site, http://www.beyondmeds.com. http://beyondmeds.com/2014/07/02/the-compliant-kid/ Palace Gate Counselling Service, … Continue reading
Posted in anti-depressants, child development, clients' perspective, growing up, healing, medical model, Monica Cassani, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, Russell Baugher
Tagged anti-depressants, Beyond Meds, Birth of a Patient, iatrogenic illness, medical model, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, psychiatric drug recovery, psychiatric drug withdrawal, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric drugs in childhood, psychiatric medication, psychiatric model, Russell Baugher
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Shauna Shapiro: The IAA Model of Mindfulness
This is a worthwhile 10 minutes about the practice of mindfulness. It identifies three components: intention, attention, attitude. We think this is an extremely useful way of making sense of mindfulness, and picks up the key elements of presence in … Continue reading
Posted in actualizing tendency, cognitive, consciousness, human condition, kindness & compassion, Mary Oliver, meditation, mindfulness, Monica Cassani, Shauna Shapiro, therapeutic growth
Tagged attention, Beyond Meds, Emo Phillips, IAA mindfulness, intention, intention attention attitude, Jon Kabat Zinn, Mary Oliver, meditation, mindfulness, Monica Cassani, person-centred, Shauna Shapiro
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