Validating Psychosis: The Missing Narrative
I am here today because I didn't take the psychotropic medication I was prescribed. Because I didn't accept someone else's narrative about MY story. Because I listened to my voices. Because I let them guide me— into the underworld, and back.
Ecotherapy/Nature Therapy/Green Therapy
Do you love hiking, backpacking, gardening or taking walks in beautiful places? Ecotherapy explores how our relationship with nature is an essential and therapeutic part of our humanity.
Behavioural Geneticist Robert Plomin: “There Are No Disorders, There Are Just Quantitative Dimensions”
It is encouraging to hear leading scientists such as Plomin acknowledge that psychiatric diagnoses are fundamentally arbitrary and that the idea of a “cure” does not make sense with regards to psychological issues.
A Tale of Two Paradigms
Two recent mental health reports from Oregon are steeped in the medical model, written by "experts" without lived experience and sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry.
Stop Saying This, Part Three: “Everything in Moderation” and More
Let’s start only accepting real relational offerings that do not make us contort, disavow comfort, strong-arm ourselves into appearing strong, or shoulder responsibility that is not ours.
Identity, Oppression, and the Culture of “The Mentally Ill”
A "mental illness culture" means that full time work is seen as impossible and discouraged, and your social world only consists of other mental health "consumers" and mental health workers.
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Research Surveys
Ongoing studies seeking participants for surveys on mental health issues.
The latest: Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry invites papers for a special issue considering psychology, psychiatry, and related disciplines within a narrative arts rather than natural sciences paradigm.
ARTWORK AND POETRY
MIA Live Town Hall 4 - Four Decades Of Making Safe Spaces For All Voices, The Hearing Voices Network
01:29:31
Medicating Normal Trailer
03:13
Origins of the c/s/x movement - Voices for Choices (10 of 13)
12:34
Veteran Suicide Epidemic -- Derek Blumke VFW Memorial Address
18:25
Voices for Choices (8 of 13) - Alternatives to psychiatric drugs
17:35
Sandy Steingard 6 3 19 Howard Center
39:00
About "Mad in America"
03:40
Robert Whitaker - Scientific Censorship in Psychiatry - March 9, 2019 - CPH
27:28
“ADHD: A Return to Psychology” Video Series, Part 1
23:54
Science and Pseudoscience Podcast - Episode 2 Darcia Narvaez
01:03:44
The Fragile Pillars of Biological Determinism for ADHD
45:00
ADHD: Medicate and Coerce or Develop Self-Reliance and Cooperation?
01:06:26
Interview with Dorothy Dundas
03:57
Adriane Fugh-Berman - Getting Pharma Out of Medical Education
33:09
Open Paradigm Project - Faith Rhyne
06:07
Open Paradigm Project - Lauren Spiro
06:25
Volkmar Aderhold at "Pharmaceuticals – Risks and Alternatives," 15th of October, 2016
28:07
UCLA/ISEPP - Peter Gotzsche
27:43
Whitaker - Treatments Alternative to Psychiatry - March 8, 2019 - Dispuk - CPH
58:01
Episode 36 Dr. Duncan Double: On being a critical psychiatrist
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