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Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: A Book Review

Posted on December 29, 2019 by admin

Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy- T?taihono-Stories of Maori Healing and Psychiatry This book explores a living collaboration between a traditional Mãori healer in New Zealand and a clinical psychiatrist. Mãori healer, Wiremu NiaNia outlines the key concepts that are the foundation of his worldview and work. The main text recounts true stories of

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health, Spiritism, Spiritual Emergence, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritual Healing, Spirituality collaborative mental health, integrative mental health, Maori, psychiatry, Spiritism, spiritual healing, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology

Drop the Disorder! A Book Review

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Emma Bragdon

Book Review: Drop the Disorder! Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis. Editor: Jo Watson. Foreword: Paula J. Caplan. Published by: PCCS Books, Ltd, UK in September, 2019. The message of this book: Labeling people who are suffering with overwhelming emotional issues typically does not help them. Instead, a psychiatric diagnosis usually increases suffering and stigma.

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Uncategorized Drop the Disorder, DSM, Integrative Mental Heatlh, Jo Watson, mental health, Mental Health Diagnosis, Paula J Caplan, psych meds, psychiatric medications, psychiatry

Epic Numbers on Anti-Depressants Today: Withdrawal Advice

Posted on March 7, 2019 by admin

Long-term prescription rates for antidepressants in the United States and Britain have doubled over the past decade, with similar trends in other Western countries. More than 15 million Americans have taken the medications for at least five years, a rate that has almost more than tripled since 2000, according to a New York Times analysis

Posted in Anti-Depressants, Mental Health anti-depressants, help with withdrawal, medication withdrawal, mental health, psychiatry, withdrawal

Psychiatry and Spirituality

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Emma Bragdon

Contentment with Your Religious Belief Impacts Mental Health Psychiatric disorders involve pathological changes in consciousness, thinking, emotions and behavior, which compromise social performance, with impairments in quality of life. Understanding the phenomenology of mental disorders is still a major challenge for science. The biological model in which thought and all mental life is the result of

Posted in Mental Health, Psychiatry, Research mental health, psychiatry, religious belief, spiritual belief, spirituality

Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

Posted on July 31, 2017 by admin

An Open Letter to the Spiritual Community About Psychiatry By Kelly Brogan, MD There’s life with the experience of mental illness and then there’s life as a mental patient. I’ve been told that both entail a large serving of unfathomable suffering. Suffering that brings you to the brink of something you can’t imagine tolerating one more

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Bipolar, Drugs, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Nutrition, Psychiatry, Spirituality, Suicide Kelly Brogan, psychiatry, Robert Whitaker, spirituality

Pharmaceutical Use & The Sedated Society

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Emma Bragdon

‘The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Prescribing Epidemic‘ (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) Pharmaceutical Use in the UK Over 15% of the UK and 20% of the US adult population take a psychiatric medication, aka pharmaceutical, on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. When these figures are set

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Medication, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Research drugs, holistic health, mental health, pharmaceutical, pharmaceuticals, psychiatric, psychiatric medication, psychiatry, sedated

India Uses Peer Support for Mental Health

Posted on December 18, 2015 by admin 2 Comments

Dr Vikram Patel is on Time magazine’s annual list of 100 most influential people in the world. He has been revolutionizing the way mental health issues are approached and treated, not just in India but across the world Dr Vikram Patel, a psychiatrist aged 51, is arguably the best known Indian mental health professional in the world today. Patel and his colleagues

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health, Peers, Psychiatry Integrative, Peers, psychiatry

4 Reasons for Integrative Psychiatry

Posted on February 13, 2014 by admin 6 Comments

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 towards a more expanded perspective on mental health care. Enjoy! Why Do I Practice Green Psychiatry? Why do I no

Posted in Anxiety, Bipolar, Depression, Drugs, Integrative Mental Health, Medication, Mental Health, Psychiatry mental health, mental illness, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry