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The biggest issue we face: #WorldMentalHealthDay – Monica Cassani
The biggest issue we face: #WorldMentalHealthDay Click on the above link to visit Monica’s site http://www.beyondmeds.com for this piece she published last week on ‘World Mental Health Day’. Her perspective and ours at this service have lots in common. Both … Continue reading →
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Breaking News: The Cause of Schizophrenia Finally Discovered? Noel Hunter
http://psychintegrity.org/breaking-news-the-cause-of-schizophrenia-finally-discovered/ Follow the above link for Noel’s piece. It’s a long, well-written and well researched article, essential reading for anyone in our line of work. The writer too has watched with some dismay, the viral description of the Sekar et al. … Continue reading →
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Will Hall on Marijuana
http://beyondmeds.com/2015/08/26/marijuana-for-mental-health/ Wide-ranging, intelligent, balanced and informed contribution to the cannabis debate by Will – whose writing is consistently of high quality. The writer has no agenda about what drugs other competent adult human beings do/don’t decide to take – but … Continue reading →
Posted in anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, child development, client as 'expert', clients' perspective, cognitive, compulsive behaviour, consciousness, consent, cultural questions, cultural taboos, dependence, diagnoses of ADHD, diagnoses of bipolar, Disconnection, diversity, DSM, ecological, education, ethics, family systems, fear, healing, hearing voices, herbalism, iatrogenic illness, Monica Cassani, natural world, parenting, perception, political, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, reality, regulation, relationship, research evidence, risk, schizophrenia, sexual violence, spirituality, sustainability, trauma, values & principles, violence, Will Hall, working with clients
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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
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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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