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What is Mind vis a vis Mental Health?

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

Mind Defined …At a meeting of 40 scientists across disciplines, including neuroscientists, physicists, sociologists, and anthropologists, the aim was to come to an understanding of the mind that would appeal to common ground and satisfy those wrestling with the question [of what it is] across these fields. After much discussion, they decided that a key

PEAK States Symposium

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness healing, mental health, mental illness, peak states, psych-biology, psycho-immunology, psychotherapy, symposium

Human Rights in Mental Health: A Paradigm Shift At WHO

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

Human Rights Model Promoted in New Guidance There is new guidance for mental health clinics published at the World Health Organization that represents a paradigm shift from a biomedical model to a human rights model. It’s called “Guidance on Community Mental Health Services: Promoting Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches.” MadinAmerica.org just published an interview with Michelle Funk

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Illness community mental health guidelines, CRPD, human rights approach, mental health, mental health services, mental illness, Michelle Funk, recovery approach, rights of persons with disabilities, WHO, World Health Organization

Beyond the Mental Health Paradigm: The power threat meaning framework

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Emma Bragdon

Not only is it time to abandon psychiatric diagnosis, it is time to move beyond the medicalised perspective of ‘mental health’. A new framework for understanding how we all cope with distress – the power threat meaning framework – can lead the way to a more honest and effective paradigm, writes clinical psychologist Lucy Johnstone.

Posted in Diagnosis, Integrative Mental Health alternative to psychiatric diagnosis, diagnosis, Diagnositic and Statistical Manual, DSM, Lucy Johnstone, mental health, mental health paradigm, mental illness, power-threat-meaning

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

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

Effective Choices in Treating Depression Using Integrative Mental Health

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

Using Integrative Mental Health Integrative Mental Health weaves together the best of science and the best of all therapies. These therapies might include common sense (get enough sleep), nutritional advice, the tools of allopathic and functional medicine, as well as the wisdom from naturopathic resources. Integrative Mental Health insists that we assess and treat the

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health alternatives to drugs, anti-depressants, depression, integrative mental health, mental health, mental illness, serotonin

Is it Psychosis or a Spiritual Emergency?

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

Spiritual Emergency vis a vis Psychosis A “spiritual emergency” is often confused with a psychotic episode. Both are intense. Both can have dramatic ups and downs. One minute a person feels elated and inspired. The next minute they feel triggered and distressed. It can be scary and disorienting. Is it a Binary? People think, “It’s

Posted in Spiritual Emergency Emma Bragdon, mental health, mental illness, psychosis, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency

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The Real Cause of the Depression Epidemic

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

The Root Cause of Depression When I [Johann Hari] interviewed social scientists all over the world – from São Paulo to Sydney, from Los Angeles to London – I started to see an unexpected picture emerge. We all know that every human being has basic physical needs: for food, for water, for shelter, for clean

Posted in Depression, Mental Health antidepressant, depression, mental health, mental illness

Rising Rates of Suicide

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Suicide Rates Rising: When Do We Acknowledge That Something Isn’t Working?! Regardless of race, gender, age, or ethnicity, people across the United States are increasingly choosing death as the only way out. More people take their lives than die from opioid overdoses — only with suicide, there are no drug dealers to blame or people

Posted in Mental Illness, Suicide mental health, mental illness, suicide, suicide prevention, treatment for suicidal thoughts

Managing Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Warning for those on antidepressants

Posted on September 26, 2017 by admin

Antidepressants raise the risk of an early death by 33%, controversial study finds The drugs do more harm than good, researchers say, and their use should be cut Psychiatrists disputed this and argued that they have been safely used for years McMaster University in Canada analysed the impact on nearly 380,000 people By Ben Spencer Medical Correspondent

Posted in Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Medication, Mental Health, Research, Suicide anti-depressants, depression, life span, mental illness, suicide