psychology
Naming Madness & Saving Normal
Imagining Something New They did it. They succeeded in helping me see myself as a bipolar defective again instead of the talented, strong, intelligent and beautiful human being that I really am. In the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting, starring Robin Williams and Matt Damon, psychologist Sean Macguire tries an alternative approach to reach…
Read MoreIn Loving Memory of the Taj Mahal on 9/11, Chalk Art Day
The Memories That Won’t Wash Away … For Americans in other parts of the country, it’s just an annual remembrance of a distant tragedy, not really affecting them very personally at all. But in NYC, the anniversary of September 11th marks a solemn day of unease. The shadows of yesterday are alive downtown where the…
Read MoreMy Case Against the Psychiatric Institution: The Full Report and Nothing But The Truth
A Cause Worth Fighting For: My Freedom The Politics of Psychiatry Critics of psychiatry encompass far more than the scientologists. Many are affected by the institution’s wrongdoings. Over two decades have passed since I was first labeled a bipolar mental case, and psychiatry has never evolved in its perception of the human mind. Their theories…
Read MoreOn Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Must Not Forget the Jew, the Nazi, and the Mentally Ill
We Must Remember I’m either mentally ill or Jewish. I can’t sometimes tell the difference.”—Rosanne Barr Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, began at sundown on Wednesday night. A memorial day for those who died in the Shoah, which means catastrophe or utter destruction in Hebrew and “sacrifice by fire” in Greek, it awakens…
Read MoreMy Story On Meds
The Psychiatric Sentence Yes, I’ve been laced on psychiatric medication for 22 years. After my failure of a trip to India in 1994, (where I suffered from acute dysentery and almost died, and subsequently had a near-death-experience on my plane trip home), I had a mental meltdown due to the trauma, and I landed in a…
Read MoreElimination of the Mentally Ill: the Genetic Undesirable
The Human Genome How could anyone who has not been on the receiving end of getting tagged and put into a category of the “mentally ill” for their personal thoughts and emotions, know the feeling of being singled out and ostracized as abnormal? Only we can truly understand the warped mindsets originating from long…
Read MorePsychiatric Labeling: A Modern Day Crime
We Are Not Behavior Alone In 1994, I was labeled with bipolar disorder. I always hated to divulge this juicy nugget of info to doctors or budding friends, and I never revealed it to employers. By sharing this label I was submitting to society’s stigma and thwarted conclusion of what everyone felt this “illness” actually…
Read MoreFreud’s Psychoanalysis: Is It Time We Moved On?
Psychiatry’s Relationship to Psychoanalysis I can’t get away from it. I see them everywhere. The four-eyed doctors sitting with analytical cruelty behind a one-dimensional interpretation of reality that I see as senseless. There she is. As I exit the Mount Kisco Greek diner she’s sitting there proud and straight-backed, robotic and brainwashed. It’s Dr. Innez.…
Read MoreThe Shamanistic Nature of Psychiatric Patients: Let Them Hone Their Gifts
The Psychiatric View of the Shaman It’s true. Many “mentally ill” people are budding shamans. Especially the bipolars. I can say this openly because for over twenty years, I’ve lived with a psychiatric label attached to my name when all I’m really trying to do is enter shamanic states safely in order to tell my…
Read MoreBiological Psychology: Stealing the Mysteries of Our Futures…
The Biomedical Model Let us ring in the new year with the latest scientific discovery. Last week science writer, Jenny Chen, writes an article in The Atlantic, “Childhood Guilt, Adult Depression?” and within days links and commentary were published all over the web. Prominent news sites like the Chicago Sun-Times, International Psychologists, and…
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