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Why Does Mainstream Psychiatry Fear a Balanced Understanding of Psychosis? Ron Unger

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2015/11/why-does-mainstream-psychiatry-fear-a-balanced-understanding-of-psychosis/#more-1682 Useful, interesting article on the BPS Report, ‘Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia’ and the mainstream psychiatric response. Thanks, Ron. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994

Posted in anti-psychotics, clients' perspective, conditions of worth, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, DSM, ethics, external locus, fear, genetics, healing, hearing voices, loneliness, meaning, metaphor & dream, perception, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, relationship, resilience, Ron Unger, schizophrenia, self, self concept, trauma, vulnerability | Tagged Adverse Childhood Experiences, adverse childhood experiences and schizophrenia, adverse experiences, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, assumptions in psychiatry, balance, balanced perception, Big Pharma, BPS report, certainty, changing perspective, child abuse, childhood trauma, complexity, coping mechanisms, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, Debra Lampshire, differences, disease and disorder model, disorders of reality perception, distorted reality, distress, dogma, dogmatism in psychiatry, Eleanor Longden, environmental factors in schizophrenia, external locus, extreme experiences, extreme states of mind and creativity, fear and suspicion, fear of others, fragmentation, genetic causes for schizophrenia, hearing voices, Hearing Voices Network, hope, humanistic, HVN, idée fixe, ideological certainty, ideology, internal locus, interpretation of mental events, interpreting our experience, Joe Pierre, low cost counselling exeter, mainstream psychiatry, making sense of extreme states, manipulation through fear, meaning, mental event, NIMH, normalising psychosis, normalizing psychosis, nuance, othering, otherness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paranoia, perception and reality, person centred counselling exeter, pharmaceutical industry, protection, protective mechanisms, psychiatric coercion, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, psychiatric power, psychiatry and Big Pharma, psychiatry and power, psychosocial factors in schizophrenia, psychotic states, re-storying, reality, reality perception, response to adverse experiences, romanticising psychosis, romanticizing psychosis, Ron Coleman, Ronald Pies, self care, self protection, separation, social conformity, social manipulation, storying, terror, threat response, traumatic memory, trust, Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia, us and them, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, www.recoveryfromschizophrenia.org | Leave a comment

Depression: It’s Not Your Serotonin – Kelly Brogan

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/12/depression-serotonin/ Click on the link for this useful article – and thanks to Mad in America, and Monica Cassani at http://www.beyondmeds.com for steering us to this. The writer does not herself any more use or find useful the language of … Continue reading →

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