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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

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I did not get jokes, or references to famous people, places, or events. As I was saying, I have an education background in Aerospace Engineering and Construction Management. Attempting to make new friends four years after ECT, four of us, I being the new member of the group, went skiing and snowshoeing up to a remote backcountry hut.

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A Psychotic Experience can Help to Process Difficult Memories

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In terms of helping, a more constructive perspective is to look at all the activities of the human mind in response to life’s events. In the book, Seikkula emphasizes, through its many twists and turns, that the most difficult mental health problems should be seen as an active activity of the mind in insurmountable stressful situations.

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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

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Ignored by establishment psychiatry, many renowned thinkers have questioned the entire wheel of current consensus reality, concluding that it is an unnatural construction that has dehumanized us. Many of these prominent thinkers—such as Erich Fromm, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lewis Mumford, Ivan Illich, and E.F.

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Everything About Us Without Us

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However, there was a favorable reference to hydrotherapy as a way to calm patients. with) a specially constructed instrument, a thin, sharp knife like a blade about four inches long. As for the 1940 survey, it made no mention of insulin or Metrazol treatments. The survey did tell of how understaffed the hospital was.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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When Nietzsche said this of Dostoevsky in 1888 (and again, more forcefully in Twilight of the Idols , published the following year), he was likely referring to the psychology of Wilhelm Wundt. Psychology has become a giant, its terms and constructs now part of the cultural lexicon, and yet it is one with clay feet.

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

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Yet rather than engage with this, the authors strategically construct arguments as though they are unaware of any such issue. It is unlikely that evidence of harm from psychiatric treatments or financial conflicts of interest among psychiatric researchers are unknown to the letter authors.

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Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Industrial Machine

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Economic systems are portrayed as immutable laws of nature, obscuring the fact that they are human constructs. Take, for example, the rise of diagnoses like “neurasthenia” in the 19th century, often referred to as “Americanitis.”