Yearly Archives: 2012
MindFreedom – Long Bio
MindFreedom International is one of the oldest mental health non-profits in existence (25+ years), and has always existed independent of funding from governments, drug...
MindFreedom – Short Bio
MindFreedom International leads a nonviolent revolution of freedom, equality, truth and human rights that unites people affected by the mental health system with movements...
Peter Lehmann – Long Bio
STOP THE PROFESSIONAL MONOLOGUE
Peter Lehmann, Honorary Doctor in acknowledgement of "exceptional scientific and humanitarian contribution to the rights of the people with psychiatric experience,"...
Peter Lehmann – Short Bio
Stop The Professional Monologue:Â Peter Lehmann, Honorary Doctor for "scientific and humanitarian contribution to the rights of the people with psychiatric experience," writes about coming...
Pentagon Was Warned Off Antipsychotic for PTSD
Despite 2004 clinical guidelines issued by the Veterans' Administration that "there is insufficient evidence to recommend atypical antipsychotics for the treatment of PTSD," Â ...
Gradual Reduction is Best For Coming Off Meds: But In All Situations?
The phrase "medication tapering" is being used more and more as the preferred term for the psychiatric medication withdrawal or coming off process. Based on my years of work educating many people around coming off medications -- clients, support groups, and in workshops and trainings -- I think that term is misleading, and let me explain why.
“Brain Region Found That Does Absolutely Nothing” (Humor)
"Some neuroscientists are disappointed by the regionsâ lack of response ... 'We tried everything we knew, with over 20 different participants. IQ tests, memory...
“Whatâs So Special about Mirror Neurons?”
Scientific American reviews the claims and counter-claims of the role that "mirror neurons" play in "mental illness."
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“Scandal Shows Mental Health Inpatient Voice is Crucial”
The U.K.'s Guardian writes, of lessons learned from the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal, that "the individuals who society finds easiest to ignore are the...
Breaking Someone Out of the Behavioral Health Unit
She came to us like a breath of fresh air; cheerful, passionate, beautiful, and always looking out for others to her own detriment. We had conversations. "Be a little selfish" I said, "It's OK to look after yourself" - and this was before I knew of the pain in her past.
Glaxo Claims Contrition and Changes in its Sales Practices
Following a record-setting spate of settlements, GlaxoSmithKline North America President Dierdre Connelly touts Glaxo's move away from a sales model that encourages the misbehavior...
Pulling for a New Reality: from Mental Illness to Mental Wellness
Evolutionary psychiatry and breakthroughs in neuroscience are rapidly blurring the lines between adaptive and maladaptive changes. What would be possible if we put our attention on, gave money and resources to mental wellness instead of mental illness? The re-election of President Obama provides another opportunity for us to create a future for ourselves and our children that we could be proud to leave as a legacy, especially as it relates to how mental health is defined and considered in the body politic and media. Imagine mental wellness. Together, we can!
Jacqui Dillon – Short Bio
The Hearing Voices Movement: Jacqui Dillon writes about the rapidly expanding, worldwide Hearing Voices movement which contests the traditional psychiatric relationship of dominant-expert clinician...
Jacqui Dillon – Long Bio
THE HEARING VOICES MOVEMENT
Jacqui Dillon is a respected speaker, writer, trainer and activist, and has lectured and published worldwide on hearing voices, psychosis, dissociation,...
Lucinda Jewell – Short Bio
Mental Health NOW: the Opportunity for Wellness: What would be possible if Mental Health Conditions were viewed as gifts that require effective management and...
Lucinda Jewell – Long Bio
Mental Health NOW: the Opportunity for Wellness
Imagine a World where Difference is Celebrated and People everywhere relate to one another as Contribution.
Lucinda Jewell, EdM, is...
3 Reasons Medication Should Be a Last Resort for Your Child
Many people today struggle with the intensity of a challenging child and, unfortunately, wind up being advised to use medications as a first intervention rather than as a very last resort. In their heart of hearts, everyone really wants the intensity that has gone awry to be the very source of their childâs greatness.
Nail Biting may be OCD in DSM-5
Along with hair-pulling and skin-picking, nail biting is under consideration to be included as an OCD-spectrum disorder in the the DSM-5. "The beauty is that...
Where are the Social Workers: Preparing for a Post-Psychiatry World?
Little more than a week ago, I participated in a panel discussion that focused on the implications of the DSM-5 for social work practice. It was part of a larger conference co-sponsored by the NYU School of Social Work and the New York City chapter of NASW. So far as I know, it was the first such social work conference thatâs taken place in New York specifically assembled to review the new DSM.
Common Sense, Deferred: Lessons From the âFresh Airâ Fight, Part Two
How and why the right to fresh air is continuously blocked by money, politics and ignorance. Plus, personal reflections on how nature heals.
Response to Fuller Torrey
Dr. Torrey accuses me of being ignorant and perhaps in this regard he is correct. Where he sees such clarity, I see profoundly difficult questions.
In Search of Change: My Journey
It is more helpful to focus on what clients do well than what they are lacking. These are simple things, but it takes a lot of discipline for professionals to stay focused, stay simple, respect clients as the expert on their life and listen intensely for their strengths and resources.
Madness Radio Interview with Mike Cornwall on Jungian Approaches to Madness and Renewal
What if people struggling with madness could explore their emotions in a supportive sanctuary? Do frightening 'psychotic' experiences have the power to transform and heal? Is breakdown also breakthrough? Michael Cornwall became a therapist after surviving his own crisis -- without medication or psychiatric treatment. For more than 30 years he has worked in the tradition of Carl Jung and R.D. Laing to support people to go through psychotic states in medication-free community settings, including John Weir Perry's Diabasis House in the 1970s.
Ending Human Rights Violations in the Mental Health System Institute Alternatives 2012
People don't understand that when they reach out for help for themselves or someone they care about, it can have threatening and lifelong consequences. If we ask for help, we risk being given a diagnosis that will stay with us the rest our life, that will limit what we can do, that will limit our relationships and activities, that may cause us to be very poor, to be ostracized and even homeless. We risk being "locked up" for years and years and years.
Laura Delano at the APA Rally
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