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‘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 →

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Medical Education: Psychiatry and Reductionism as a First-year Medical Student – Evan Einstein

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2015/07/medical-education-psychiatry-and-reductionism-as-a-first-year-medical-student/ This is interesting and hopeful… Gratitude to Evan for his willingness and openness to think, question, and challenge – rather than conform and comply, as we are encouraged/constrained to do in our cultures, both here and on the other … Continue reading →

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Madness and Beauty in the Heart of Darkness – Drake Spaeth

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.saybrook.edu/newexistentialists/posts/05-27-15 Click on the link for (sadly) the last of Drake Spaeth’s series of posts for Saybrook, this time with some thoughts arising on the recent death of John Nash, the brilliant mathematician whose life was the subject of Sylvia … Continue reading →

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Gabor Mate: The Myth of Normal

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link for this short film of the wonderful Gabor Mate talking about culturally prevalent myths of ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’, and their unhelpful nature. At this service, we also make sense of human experience in terms of a … Continue reading →

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