Reasons to Value Spiritual Experiences in Mental Health

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZL-axoqKU Expert Summary: How Spiritual Experiences Fit into Mental Health May 17, 2025.  Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, PhD, gives his hourlong acceptance speech for the Oskar Pfister Award at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Conference.

Supporting Spiritual Crisis in Veterans

Monday, March 17, 2025 9am to 5pm ET (New York City Time) FREE–Attend live or virtually Info/Registration:  https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/veteran_wellbeing_resilience Veterans, active service men and women, and first responders  are often faced with moral distress when they

Choosing Evolution

  Choosing Evolution Paul Levy is an author, creator, long-term meditator, and consultant.  About 40 years ago he underwent a dramatic spiritual crisis, during which he was taken to be mentally ill and hospitalized.  He

Interview with Phil Borges

  Phil Borges and Emma Bragdon in Conversation On October 28, 2024, I interviewed Phil Borges.  He is the co-producer of Crazywise, a documentary film depicting Spiritual Emergency through the real life stories of two
Francis Lu

Francis Lu, Psychiatrist: Adding Spirit to Psychiatry

  Francis Lu, Psychiatrist: On Recognizing Spiritual Issues in Psychiatry An essay Francis Lu wrote with two scolleagues to the APA’s editorial board for the DSM-IV  was instrumental in creating the first category in the
Corruption

Let’s End Public Health Agency Corruption

Mary Holland Corruption in Public Health Agencies Robert Redfield, MD, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021,  has recently called for the end of public health agency corruption and

Emergence Phenomena: Defined and Discussed

Emergence Phenomena: Opening the Dialogue The experiences individuals have as a result of “spiritual emergence” are many and simple categories often miss the subtle differences that are important to acknowledge.  Especially if someone is a