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The biggest issue we face: #WorldMentalHealthDay – Monica Cassani

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

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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Laura Delano on grieving for ‘all we lose to being labeled “mentally ill”’

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

”It is an important, meaningful, entirely valid experience to feel grief and despair at the thought of all we lose to being labeled “mentally ill” and put on psychotropic drugs. In fact, feeling these feelings – including anger and rage … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, anger, clients' perspective, cognitive, congruence, cultural questions, diagnoses of bipolar, Disconnection, empathy, empowerment, equality, ethics, external locus, grief, growth, healing, human condition, internal locus of evaluation, Laura Delano, loneliness, loss, love, Mad in America, medical model, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, person centred, power and powerlessness, presence, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, research evidence, resilience, Robert Whitaker, sadness & pain, self, sexual being, therapeutic growth, trauma, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Anatomy of an Epidemic, authenticity, bipolar, coercive psychiatric treatment, congruence, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, despair, disease and disorder model, empathy, external locus, forced psychiatric treatment, grief, grieving process, growth, healing, holistic approach, holistic healing, identity, internal locus, Laura Delano, loss, love, low cost counselling exeter, Mad in America, medical model, mental health system, mental illness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, Paula Caplan, person centred counselling exeter, personal journey, presence, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, psychiatric treatment, Psychiatry, psychotropic drugs, realness, relationship, Robert Whitaker, Self, sense of self, They say you're crazy, trauma, well-being, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 1 Comment

Increased anti-depressant use strongly associated with rise in mood disorders Robert Whitaker

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2015/02/02/disability-and-mood-disorders-in-the-age-of-prozac-robert-whitaker/ Click on the link for this sobering post on Monica Cassani’s great site, http://www.beyondmeds.com. We would ourselves would wish to challenge the illness/disorder model language – but that is how the evidence is couched, and the point is clear. … Continue reading →

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Psychiatric Epidemic – Part 1:The Roots – Robert Whitaker

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Okay, this is a long watch. However, if you are a therapist or taking, or thinking of taking, psychiatric drugs, it’s an important one. This is not about an agenda that people do/don’t make that decision – which we think … Continue reading →

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Jon Keyes: Traditional Healing & Psychosis

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Jon Keyes: Traditional Healing & Psychosis Click on the title to follow the link to Mad in America, and therapist Jon Keyes at Hearthside Healing. We had a look around at Hearthside after yesterday’s post:- https://palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com/2014/04/19/jonathan-keyes-invisible-pain-recovery-from-psychiatric-drugs/ We came up with … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Rogers, cultural questions, Disconnection, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, Jon Keyes, Mad in America, medical model, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person centred, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, relationship, research evidence, sacred illness, spirituality, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship | Tagged altered states, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Carl Rogers, community based care, Deena Metzger, Hearthside Healing, Jon Keyes, Jonathan Keyes, Mad in America, medical model, mental illness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Psychiatry, Psychosis, revisioning medicine, Robert Whitaker, schizophrenia, shamanism, spirituality, World Health Organisation, World Health Organization | 2 Comments

The “Mental Illness” Paradigm: Itself an “Illness” that is Out of Control

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The “Mental Illness” Paradigm: Itself an “Illness” that is Out of Control Interesting article by Paris Williams.

Posted in Disconnection, Mad in America, medical model, paradigm shift, Paris Williams, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, therapeutic growth | Tagged actualisation, actualising, actualization, actualizing, Anatomy of an Epidemic, anti psychotic medication, anti-depressants, anxiolytic, bipolar, connection, dehumanization, disconnection, human condition, iatrogenic illness, Linda Logan, Mad in America, mental health, mental illness, mental illness paradigm, paradigm shift, Paris Williams, PCA, person-centred, psychiatric drugs, Psychiatry, Rethinking Madness, Robert Whitaker, Soteria, Szasz, therapeutic growth, therapeutic process | Leave a comment