Psychosis Archives

NEWS: On Voice Hearing

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

There are communities in which hearing voices frequently is common and expected, and in which participants are not expected to have a need for care. This paper compares the ideas and practices of these communities. Voice Hearing in Community We observe that these communities utilize cultural models to identify and to explain voice-like events—and that

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Understanding Psychosis: Sign of Mental Illness or Spiritual Emergency?

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

There is a heated argument around understanding psychosis and psychotic episodes. The dictionary of psychiatry considers it an illness, like a symptom of a broken brain. Increasing numbers believe it does not exist as a mental illness or a symptom of mental illness. Instead, it is a natural expression of being emotionally and psychically overwhelmed.

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How to Manage Spiritual Crisis

Posted on August 30, 2017 by admin

Spiritual Crisis and Spiritual Emergency Since psychic and spiritual experiences have been pooh-poohed in our culture—to the point we have considered talking to God as a sign of psychosis?-most people are scared of them. But when people get the right kind of support, they find the experiences to be positively transformative! The process of integration,

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Our Fear of Psychic Phenomena

Posted on October 6, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

Spiritist Medical Congress I just returned from a fantastic conference: the 2nd International Spiritist Medical Congress, “The Dawn of a New Era in Medicine”, October 1-2, 2016, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. The roster of speakers was world class–almost all of them were MDs and PhDs with superb presentations. The event hall was modern,

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Mysticism and Psychosis

Posted on January 1, 2016 by admin 4 Comments

The following article is about mysticism, spiritual experiences, spiritual emergence and extreme states of consciousness, aka psychotic process. It was originally published in Seeds of Unfolding, Vol. VI, No. 4, Fall 1989. It is one of a number of papers written by Dr. Tomás Agosin, a psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College

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