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How You Are Already Seeding Transformation – Joe Brewer

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://medium.com/@joe_brewer/how-you-are-already-seeding-transformation-d14a516d2850 Click on the above link for this inspiring piece from Joe. Thanks to Justine Corrie on Facebook for showing us this. Here’s an excerpt:- “Imagine the surface of a mountain lake in winter. The air has fallen below freezing … Continue reading →

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‘Is mental illness real?’ Jay Watts

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/12/is-mental-illness-real-google-answer?CMP=share_btn_tw Click on the above link for this interesting and important piece in the Guardian’s ‘Comment is free’ section, showing how these perceptions are gradually making it into the mainstream media…which is encouraging. For the writer, Jay still speaks in … Continue reading →

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‘Let’s talk about how we address mental health’ Dainius Pūras

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21480&LangID=E Click on the above link to visit this U.N. site, for this address by Dainius Pūras on World Health Day. He is a psychiatrist, and representative of the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. If you are … Continue reading →

Posted in anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, autonomy, borderline personality disorder, civil rights, client as 'expert', community, compassion, cultural questions, diagnoses of bipolar, Disconnection, DSM, emotions, empowerment, ethics, external locus, Gender & culture, healing, hearing voices, interconnection & belonging, medical model, objectification, paradigm shift, perception, political, power, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, research evidence, sadness & pain, scapegoating, schizophrenia, shadow, shame, shaming, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trauma, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged adverse childhood events, adverse childhood experience, adverse social conditions, affordable counselling exeter, biased research outcomes in mental health, biased research outcomes in psychiatry, Big Pharma, biomedical intervention, biomedical model, biomedical reductionism, childhood adversity, childhood adversity and mental health, childhood experience, childhood sexual abuse, coercive drug treatment, coercive psychiatric treatment, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, CSA, Dainius Pūras, disease and disorder model, emotional abuse, forcible drug treatment, forcible psychiatric treatment, gender inequality, low cost counselling exeter, making sense of human suffering, making sense of suffering, medical reductionism, medicalisation of distress, medicalisation of emotion, medicalisation of feeling, medicalisation of human experience, medicalisation of sadness, medicalising childhood, medicalising distress, medicalization, medicalization of distress, medicalization of emotion, medicalization of feeling, medicalization of human experience, medicalization of sadness, medicalizing childhood, medicalizing distress, mental health policy, neurobiological paradigm, over prescription of psychotropic drugs, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, patriarchal model, patriarchy, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, pharmaceutical industry, physical abuse, politics of oppression, power relationships, psychiatric model, psychiatric reductionism, psychosocial model, reductionism, reductionism in biomedical model, reductionism in psychiatry, reductive neurobiological paradigm, reductive paradigm, scientific reductionism, sexual abuse in childhood, social effects of inequality, social effects of poverty, social exclusion, social inequalities, social norms, social problems, talking about mental health, toxic stress, unequal power relationships, vulnerability, working with borderline, working with BPD, working with psychosis, working with schizophrenia, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works – CJ Hopkins

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/13/why-ridiculous-official-propaganda-still-works/ Click on the above link for this interesting article on http://www.counterpunch.org Hat tip to Charles Eisenstein for showing us this. We are going to go with the same excerpt Charles chose:- ‘The point is to draw a Maginot line, … Continue reading →

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Erich Fromm on the situation of a sane man in an insane culture

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet “for sale”, who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who … Continue reading →

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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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The age of loneliness is killing us – George Monbiot

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/14/age-of-loneliness-killing-us Powerful piece by George Monbiot in the Guardian on how cultural structures, norms and values are eroding our sense of personhood, belonging, interconnection, and denying us the one essential condition if we are to thrive – love. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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‘The exiled scapegoats, the black sheep, the nonconformists & creative maladjusted’ – Monica Cassani

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2014/09/27/the-exiled-scapegoats/ Click on the link for this interesting post by Monica on http://www.beyondmeds.com. We especially liked the following:- ‘Exiled scapegoats can, thus, return to serve the collective as agents of its deepest and most difficult needs…. But they are also … Continue reading →

Posted in consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, ethics, human condition, Monica Cassani, non-conforming, paradigm shift, power and powerlessness, scapegoating, shadow, sustainability, therapeutic growth, transformation, values & principles | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, black sheep, blaming, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural paradigm, ethics, guilt, judgement, Krishnamurti, low cost counselling exeter, Martin Luther King, Monica Cassani, non conforming, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, person centred counselling exeter, rejection, scapegoat, Scapegoat Complex, shadow, shame, social exclusion, social norms, splitting, Sylvia Brinton Perera, transcendence, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

C Shaw ‘Depression is not a Disease but an Indication that Human Consciousness needs to Change’

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://vocesdetierra.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/depression-is-not-a-disease-but-an-indication-that-human-consciousness-needs-to-change/ Interesting article dated 12 August from C Shaw. We’re not entirely on board with all of it (for example the reference to ‘depression’ as ‘chemical and emotional imbalance of the brain’ – see Joanna Moncrieff on this subject), but … Continue reading →

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