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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 →

Posted in actualizing tendency, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, autonomy, consent, cultural questions, cultural taboos, Disconnection, empowerment, ethics, growth, healing, iatrogenic illness, internal locus of evaluation, Monica Cassani, non-conforming, objectification, paradigm shift, perception, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, shadow, transformation, trauma, violence | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, alternative mental health care, alternative psychiatric care, attending to the body, authoritarianism as violence, authority as violence, authority over others is violence, autonomy, breaking down, breaking through, can madness save us, care for psychosis, Chris Cole, coercion in medicine, coercive mental health treatment, coercive paradigms, coercive psychiatry, collective caring, coming off psychiatric drugs, community mental health, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, drug free recovery, emotional pain, everything matters, faith, finding a safe space, finding support, forced psychiatric treatment, forced treatment, having well being, healing journey, health and well-being, helping professions, holistic health, iatrogenic injury, improving well being, Jiddu Krishnamurti, learning to live well, loving the body, loving your body, low cost counselling exeter, medical adherence, medical compliance, medical model, medically induced injury, meditation, mental distress, mental health and eating, mental health system, mental health treatment, mental illness system, mental pain, mentally ill, Monica Cassani, needing a safe space, no measure of health, non compliance, non conformity, Open Dialogue, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paying attention, peer support, person centred counselling exeter, personal agency, personal sovereignty, presence, pro choice in psychiatry, professional retraumatisation, professional retraumatization, providing sanctuary, psychiatric drug withdrawal, psychiatric harm, psychiatric labels, recovering and thriving, resistance to treatment as sign of health, retaining agency, Robert Whitaker, self care, self empowering, sick culture, sick society, state of mental health care, support in growth, support in healing, supporting others, supporting vulnerable people, systemic oppression, trauma, trusting your own process, using practice, vulnerability, well adjusted, wellness, withdrawal syndrome, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

‘Healing is the leading forth of wholeness in people’ – Rachel Naomi Remen

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘I like to think of the word ‘healing’ in the relationship to curing, as coming to terms with things as they are. What healing is is a process through which we come to terms with the actuality of our situation … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, Carl Rogers, consciousness, Deena Metzger, ecological issues, healing, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Jon Kabat Zinn, Jon Keyes, mindfulness, Monica Cassani, organismic experiencing, perception, person centred, physical being, Rachel Naomi Remen, reality, relationship, sacred illness, spirituality, sustainability, therapeutic growth | Tagged actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, belonging, Carl Rogers, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, Deena Metzger, healing, health, holistic healing, interconnection, Jon Keyes, Kabat Zinn, low cost counselling exeter, mindfulness, Monica Cassani, organismic, organismic experience, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person-centered, person-centred, Rachel Naomi Remen, reality, Remen, revisioning medicine, revisioning mental health, spirituality, wellness, wholeness, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

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