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All I ever was and had to be was sad – Talya Eidelman via Monica Cassani

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

All I ever was and had to be was sad Click on the above link to visit Monica Cassani’s site http://www.beyondmeds.com – a hugely valuable resource for anyone interested in well-being, healing from iatrogenic illness caused by psychiatric drugs, and moving … Continue reading →

Posted in anger, awakening, compassion, creativity, cultural questions, embodiment, emotions, empowerment, encounter, flow, grief, iatrogenic illness, interconnection & belonging, love, meaning, Monica Cassani, organismic experiencing, perception, person centred, presence, psychiatry, relationship, sadness & pain, surrender, Talya Eidelman, tears, transformation, trust, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, aliveness, anger and change, anger and creativity, anger and energy, anger invites change, anger management, anxiety and creativity, challenging DSM, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, depression and stuckness, diagnosis of anxiety, diagnosis of depression, DSM V, grief and gratitude, human experience, low cost counselling exeter, medicalisation of distress, medicalisation of emotion, medicalisation of feeling, medicalisation of sadness, medicalization of distress, medicalization of emotion, medicalization of feeling, medicalization of sadness, mental health model, mental health paradigm, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, psychiatric model, psychiatric paradigm, sadness and joy, stuck energy, Talya Eidelman, thwarted energy, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

‘ADHD: A Destructive and Disempowering Label; Not an Illness’ Philip Hickey

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2015/07/adhd-a-destructive-and-disempowering-label-not-an-illness/ ‘Psychiatry has created and promoted the self-serving fiction that childhood distractibility/impulsivity and various other human problems are illnesses that need to be “treated” with neurotoxic chemicals and other brain-damaging interventions. Suggesting at this very late stage in the proceedings … Continue reading →

Posted in child development, civil rights, compulsive behaviour, consent, cultural questions, diagnoses of ADHD, Disconnection, diversity, DSM, emotions, ethics, external locus, growing up, Mad in America, medical model, non-conforming, perception, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, research evidence | Tagged ADHD, ADHD myth, anti-psychiatry, antipsychiatry, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Behaviorism and Mental Health, Big Pharma, biomarkers in psychiatry, bureaucratisation of the spirit, challenging DSM, chemical imbalance myth, chemical imbalance theory of depression, child psychiatry, compliance, Concerta, conforming, disease and disorder model, DSM, DSM validity, Erving Goffman, Geography of Childhood, Ilina Singh, Institute of Psychiatry, Mad in America, medicalising childhood, medicalising distress, medicalizing childhood, medicalizing distress, methylphenidate, myth of normal, non-conforming, over prescription of psychiatric drugs, pathologising behaviour, pathologizing behaviour, Philip Hickey, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric drug research, psychiatric drugs in children, psychiatric misdiagnosis, psychiatric model, psychiatric research, psychosocial model, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Simon Wessely, social norms, Steven Trimble | 1 Comment

The Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://cepuk.org/ Follow the link to the website for CEP. In the writer’s view, anyone working in the therapeutic/allied world has an ethical responsibility to be aware of, and evaluate, these arguments. CEP has some seriously intelligent, aware and informed people … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, accountability, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, CEP, consent, core conditions, cultural questions, diagnoses of bipolar, DSM, empathy, encounter, ethics, external locus, growth, healing, iatrogenic illness, Joanna Moncrieff, medical model, MHRA, neuroscience, non-directive counselling, Palace Gate Counselling Service, paradigm shift, perception, person centred, political, power and powerlessness, presence, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, regulation, research evidence, Robert Whitaker, schizophrenia, suicide, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, values & principles, violence, working with clients | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, antidepressants, antidepressants and placebo, antidepressants research, Big Pharma, burying of psychiatric drug trial data, CEP, CEPUK, challenging DSM, chemical imbalance myth, chemical imbalance theory of depression, core conditions, Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, depression, DSM, DSM utility, DSM validity, ICD chapter 5, lack of scientific basis for psychiatry, lack of scientific basis in psychiatry, low cost counselling exeter, Manipulation of psychiatric drug trial data, medicalisation of distress, medicalisation of emotion, medicalisation of feeling, medicalisation of human experience, medicalization of distress, medicalization of emotion, medicalization of feeling, medicalization of human experience, medicating children, mental health disorders, MHRA, MHRA and conflicts of interest, misdiagnoses in psychiatry, misdiagnosis in psychiatry, over prescription of psychiatric drugs, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, personality change, prescribing psychiatric drugs to children, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric disorders, psychiatric drug outcomes, psychiatric drug research, psychiatric drug withdrawal, psychiatric drugs and suicide, psychiatric drugs and violence, psychiatric drugs side effects, psychotropic drug withdrawal, psychotropic drugs, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, validity of psychiatric diagnostic system, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 1 Comment

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All I ever was and had to be was sad – Talya Eidelman via Monica Cassani

‘ADHD: A Destructive and Disempowering Label; Not an Illness’ Philip Hickey

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