Improving Mental Health Outcomes: September, 2023 Report

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
mental health education

Mental Health Education in Schools

Mental health education lessons are coming to the national curriculum [UK] next year [2020]. Teachers should be empowered to acknowledge that mental health is a contested area, argues psychologist and lecturer Anne Cooke. Ask students
voice hearing

Psychedelics Facilitator Training and Research

Psychedelics  Facilitator Training UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Psychedelics (BCSP) is one of many academic institutions that offer training in the science, history, and use of psychedelics. They network with scholars around the
exercise

Exercise & Mental Health 2022 Report

Hot off the press, this report summarizes the last three decades of research on the links between exercise and mental health. Does Exercise Impact Mental Health? Briefly: Existing scientific research overwhelmingly indicates that exercise and
depression

Update: What’s Most Effective vs. Depression?

Early in the pandemic depression tripled, from 8.5% just before to 27.8%, then skyrocketed to 32.8% in 2021.  For Perspective…   Depression Rates Soar In the U.S. in 2017, an estimated 17.3 million American adults,
Stress

Stress in USA Measured

Stress in the United States is at an all time high, according to a poll conducted on behalf of the American Psychological Association (APA). Poll Shows Stress in US at All Time High The poll
Healing Touch and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

Healing Touch and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

There are about 50 Spiritist psychiatric hospitals in Brazil, utilizing an integrative approach to recovery, stressing the spiritual alongside physical and emotional therapies that address the true causes of imbalance. Energy “passes”, similar to healing

Watch New Film Aug 12: Medicating Normal

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
racism

My Grandmother’s Hands

    My Grandmother’s Hands: a highly recommended book about community and healing from racism—as we all face the heart-wrenching news of reactivity and violence, and wonder how to turn the tide of racist prejudice.  RECOMMENDED:
Chico Xavier

Dead Man Talking: Brazil’s Spiritists Redefine Religion

Integrative Mental Health University, IMHU.org, has a special interest in Spiritist Therapies.  Check out the course we offer on this topic with 7 professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, and mediums who lead Spiritist Centers in the USA).