Exile: My Cure for Psychosis
Psychiatry infantilizes the patient. Living in exile allows formerly psychotic people to achieve mature, healthy independence.
Rights, Responsibilities and Resources–Peer Support in Mental Health Services
Service users and peer support experts should be taking inspiration from the Recovery movement and the defense of rights.
The Schizophrenic and the Dreamer
If delusions contain symbolic content, like dreams, then the language of the schizophrenic may be intelligible after all.
What Are Waking Dreams, and Why Should You Care?
Indigenous cultures around the world recognize and intentionally cultivate waking dreams for both personal and community well-being.
The Consciousness of Voices and Visions
Alan Robinson reviews a 30-year journey working with his voices and visions in directing actors and creative writing.
The Two Earliest Stories of Recovery in Oregon
In the early 19th century, frontiersmen Pelton and Day experienced recovery from "mental illness" after traumatic experiences.
International online survey on the positive and negative effects of ECT, for patients and their loved ones. Please see here for more information.
Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy
Susan Grundy on her lifelong caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13.
The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora
Dr. Ellen Vora, author of 'The Anatomy of Anxiety', joins us to discuss trauma, grief, functional medicine and more.
One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose...
Rose Cartwright is a screenwriter and the author of Pure, a hugely successful memoir which was then turned into a series for Channel Four....
We Should Listen to Our Emotional Pain: An interview with Paul Andrews
Dr. Paul Andrews is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University. His research focuses...
Why Does a Parent Medicate a Child? An Interview with My Mother
When Brooke Siem was 15 years old, her father died. Her mother, Dee Barbash, sought help for her daughter that led to a prescription for a psychiatric drug. In this interview, they look back on that fateful decision.
From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice
In this interview, Daniel Gaztambide discusses how decolonial perspectives can transform psychoanalytic practice.
Out & About – Boarding school survivors annual conference
Everything that is written about the harm that happens to children who are sent away to school may also be true when children are taken into care. Every time, a child is removed from their home, it is a cause for concern, and no boarding school survivors are not the privileged elite that so many are inclined to label us with.
Report for the Improvement of Mental Health Results – Chapter 1:...
It is universally accepted that the mental health system is a failure, especially in relation to what has been achieved with the most remarkable aspect of psychiatric treatment since the 1950s, and exponentially since the early 1980s: psychiatric drugs. At the expense of great public spending, their ubiquitous implementation promoted by the current system, including compulsorily in patients who do not want them - often holding them and injecting them against their will, or threatening to do so so that they become "compliant" - drastically aggravates the results and suffering.
Anger, poem.
In this poem, Gabriel Hereñú explores the emotion of anger and everything invisible that surrounds it in terms of its origin, causes and consequences
