psychosis Archives

Reasons to Value Spiritual Experiences in Mental Health

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZL-axoqKU Expert Summary: How Spiritual Experiences Fit into Mental Health May 17, 2025. Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, PhD, gives his hourlong acceptance speech for the Oskar Pfister Award at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Conference. Dr. M-A is a prolific researcher, who has also written many published articles and books on the subject of spirituality,

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergence Alexander Moreira Almeida, APA, brain, Brazil, consciousness, life after death, mediumship, mental health, NDE, near death experience, Oskar Pfister Aware, psychosis, reincarnation, spiritual emergency, spiritual experience

Working Group Soteria

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Working Group Soteria Authors: Daniel Nischk and Ludi Van Bouwel of ISPS [To learn more about Soteria, a very successful psycho-social approach to treating extreme states, go a previous blog which introduces the concept as well as an active Soteria House in Vermont, USA. Click HERE to learn more. A 7 minute vid of the

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Residential Care Mosher, neuroleptics, psycho-social care, psychosis, research, residential treatment, schizophrenia, soteria

Soteria: An Alternative to Hospitalization

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Emma Bragdon

Soteria House Soteria House is a Therapeutic Community Residence for the prevention of hospitalization for individuals experiencing a distressing extreme state, commonly referred to as psychosis. We believe that psychosis can be a temporary experience that one works through rather than a chronic mental illness that needs to be managed.We practice the approach of

Posted in Residential Care, Spiritual Emergency alternatives, extreme states, hospitalization, Peer Support, psychosis, soteria, Vermont

Our Next Step in Evolution

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

Supporting Evolution Evolution of humanity is being supported by the two men above who are both articulate elders, coming from deep student of mystic traditions as well as profound perspective on our modern day. The interview above was created in June 2024. In mid-December, 2024 we will be posting a new interview-blog with Emma

Posted in Mental Illness, Spiritual Crisis Andrew Harvey, evil, evolution, mental health, mental illness, mystic, mysticsm, Paul Levy, psychosis, quantum physics, Sacred Activism, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spritiual crisis, wetiko

Interview with Phil Borges

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Emma Bragdon

Phil Borges and Emma Bragdon in Conversation On October 28, 2024, I interviewed Phil Borges. He is the co-producer of Crazywise, a documentary film depicting Spiritual Emergency through the real life stories of two individuals. The film also includes short dialogues with spiritual teachers and psychotherapists who offer their perspectives that Spiritual Emergency is

Posted in Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency Emma Bragdon, Phil Borges, psychosis, shamanism, Shamans, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, stan grof

Psychiatry Accepting of Spiritual Phenomena?

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

Psychiatry: Accepting of Spiritual Phenomena? “Western civilization is unique in history in its failure to recognize each human being as a subtle energy system in constant relationship to a vast sea of energies in the surrounding cosmos”. –Dr. Edward E. Mann Psychiatry’s theories around diagnosing psychosis have changed radically since 2013. It’s time

Posted in Spiritual Emergence cultural formulation interview, DSM, hearing voices, psychiatry, psychology, psychosis, psychotherapy, schizophrenia, visions

Possible Crises with Psychedelic Use

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

Challenging psychedelic crises cover a vast area The following manual excerpt is from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS, 2010), and just touches on challenging experiences. Jules Evans also adds his opinion. For a more in-depth study, see (MAPS) reading list below. — There is no clear manifestation of any substance or mixture of

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Psychedelics going crazy, losing your mind, MAPS, plant medicines, psychedelics, psychosis, spiritual emergency. traiuma

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

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Psychosis hearing voices, mediumship, mental health, mental illness, psychosis, voice hearing

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

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

Posted in Spiritual Emergency alternative mental health, integrative mental health, psychosis, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology