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Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

Spiritist psychiatric care is described below…and it’s leading us into new territory that might improve our own healthcare system! Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil “If the spirit is not acknowledged as existing and real,

Posted on April 16, 2015
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healing, meditation, mental health, mental illness, schizophrenia, spiritual emergency, spirituality

How Meditation Helps Your Game

[vimeo id=”101977836″] Fortunately, it’s becoming increasingly more acceptable for a medical doctor or psychiatrist to teach about spirituality while he or she is active in private practice. Russell Razzaque, a psychiatrist based in London who

Posted on December 18, 2014
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meditation, mindfulness

Trading Truth-telling for Shame

Gayathri Ramprasad has just published a memoir, Shadows in the Sun, which uncovers her intimate story of growing up in India when it was shameful to admit mental disturbances of any kind–especially crippling anxiety and

Posted on September 25, 2014
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Air Pollution May Cause Severe Mental Health Issues

It may be time for a new answer to “What is Autism?” New research from the University of Rochester Medical Center describes how exposure to air pollution early in life produces harmful changes in the

Posted on June 18, 2014
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autism, children, pollution, schizophrenia

Say No to Kids and Pharmaceutical Drugs?!

Saying No to Kids and Pharmaceutical Drugs? A new article by Peter Breggin, MD in the journal Children & Society, outlines The Rights of Children and Parents In Regard to Children Receiving Psychiatric Diagnoses and

Posted on April 24, 2014
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ADHD, Breggin, drugs, kids

4 Reasons for Integrative Psychiatry

Four Reasons for Integrative Psychiatry, aka Green Psychiatry Steven Goldsmith, a psychiatrist from Oregon is kindly allowing me to share the blogpost about why he turned away from the limitations of conventional psychiatry and turned

Posted on February 13, 2014
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mental health, mental illness, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry

Better Mental Health Care Treatment Needed

CBC News from Toronto, Canada reported in November 2012 that drugs given for mental illness are not as effective as we had assumed. CBC reported that even though there is greater awareness that one in

Posted on November 2, 2013
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A Better Way to Treat Anxiety and Depression

“I am feeling so down, and nervous these days. It’s been going on for a while. My doctor has tried many different medicines, and I keep getting side effects, and don’t want to depend on

Posted on October 30, 2013
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Sex, Spiritual Growth, and Psychiatry

Freud believed that people suffer as they try to manage the tension between good and evil, noble and selfish intentions, fulfilling social norms versus indulging sexual desires and fantasies. Freud saw that these personal inner

Posted on September 29, 2013
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