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Improving Mental Health Outcomes: September, 2023 Report

Posted on October 5, 2023 by Emma Bragdon
Improving Mental Health Outcomes: September, 2023 Report The mental health system’s standard treatments are colossally counterproductive and harmful, often forced on unwilling patients. The overreliance on psychiatric drugs is reducing the recovery rate of people diagnosed with serious mental illness from a possible 80% to 5% and reducing their life spans by 20 years or
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Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health alternative mental health, children mental health, e-CPR, emotional CPR, hearing voices, integrative mental health, Jim Gottstein, mental health, mental illness, open dialogue, peer respite, soteria, warm lines, youth mental health

Watch New Film Aug 12: Medicating Normal

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Emma Bragdon
You’re invited to join us for an online community screening of Medicating Normal, a 76-minute documentary film exploring through stories our current mental health care system’s over-reliance on psychiatric drugs. An interactive community discussion will follow immediately after the film.  You can view the trailer at medicatingnormal.com.  This is an exceptional, professionally produced film. The Panel Features:
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Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Illness alternative mental health, Emma Bragdon, holistic mental health, IMHU, integrative mental health, lynn Cunningham, medicating normal, medication withdrawal, pam shervanick
shamanic

The Shamanic View of Mental Health: A Holistic Approach

Posted on February 25, 2020 by admin 3 Comments
In November 2014, the peak psychology body in the UK, the British Psychological Association, released its new flagship report Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia. It was a watershed moment in the mainstream treatment of mental illness, containing statements such as this:                 Hearing voices or feeling paranoid are common experiences which can often
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Posted in Mental Health, Mental Illness, Shamanism, Spiritual Emergence, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritually Transformative Experiences alternative mental health, crazywise, Eleanor Longden, holistic mental health, integrative mental health, John Weir Perry, Jonathan Davis, Joseph Campbell, mental health, mental illness, Phil Borges, psychosis, shamanism, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology, Stanlisav Grof
collective spiritual emergency

When Mental Illness Masks A Collective Spiritual Emergency

Posted on February 10, 2020 by admin 1 Comment
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti Out of the Shadows: When Spiritual Emergency was a Mental Illness I recall driving with my parents past the “Danvers Lunatic Hospital“ that loomed dark and mysterious up on the hill in Danvers, MA.  Such institutions where the result
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Posted in Spiritual Emergency alternative mental health, integrative mental health, psychosis, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology
slow psychiatry

Slow Psychiatry: A New Form of Integrative Practice

Posted on January 27, 2020 by admin
  Before Slow Psychiatry: Drug-centered and Needs-adapted Approaches A “drug-centered approach” acknowledges that we do not fully understand the causes of peoples’ troubles. We understand more about drug action although our knowledge is certainly incomplete on that subject as well. A “needs-adapted approach” provides a framework in which we can talk about these drugs, acknowledge
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Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health, Medication, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatry alternative mental health, complementary mental health, concept of mental illness, integrative mental health, psychiatric medication, psychiatry, SAMSHA, Sandra Steingard, slow psychiatry
Ayahuasca

Is Ayahuasca a Shortcut to Spiritual Awakening?

Posted on December 17, 2019 by admin
Ayahuasca: Is It a Viable Shortcut? Ayahuasca is a brew made from plants that grow in the rain forest.  It has been used in ceremony by indigenous peoples in Central and South America to expand consciousness and connect strongly to the wisdom of the natural world.  In the last few decades more North Americans and
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Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Drugs, Ibogaine, Integrative Mental Health, Plant Medicine, Spiritual Emergence, Spiritual Emergency, Spirituality alternative mental health, Ayahuasca, ibogaine, integrative mental health, Psychonaut, shamanism, Shamans, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology
spiritual psychology

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Emma Bragdon
Spiritual Psychology of Indigenous Peoples This 7 min video gives voice to the wisdom of a Native American elder, Floyd Red Crow Westerman. He speaks to the changes going on now on our earth.  He says we are in a time of evolution…that it is positive. The vid is also a call to honor our
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Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency alternative mental health, american indian, holistic health, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology

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