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The Other Side of Science - Steven Morgan

Steven Morgan's excellent deconstruction of the scientific myths and politics that go into mental health diagnosis and treatment, including a detailed resource section.

Libdo problem

they have tested me for 8 years in mental health! personally i think im hyper but in the army u r challenged daily an ur enrgy is channeld. today i have 2 deal with the side effect of no libido! thats bad...

Log of a manic recoverer...

Today I begin the return to med free living!!!!

Who Gets To Decide?

One group of humans get to decide, another is supposed to just follow orders, and trust that the other group will make the right decisions. One group gets heavily funded and carried aloft on the shoulders of the Status Quo and heralded everywhere as heroes, the other gets to remain passive, waiting in silenced trust to be served. One group gets to engage in "reputable" dialogue with each other, the other group gets to  "rant" and "rave" and can only be viewed in a very narrow, paternalistic way. All of these ways have a lot of bigoted assumptions within them and end up tooling all the otherwise beautiful human beings involved. 

(Pro)Creation

I'm not quite sure what a "teaser" is to this project, but you may want to consider the audience!

Iowa City - Mad Maps Wokshop

11/16/2007 - 7:00pm
11/16/2007 - 9:00pm
US/Central

Review Of The Child Savers, a book demystifying the 'polytricks' of reducing people to labels, etc.

"The problem with children, and with working class children in particualr, was that they refused to be integrated smoothly into an oppressive society. ...The child savers turned political problems into adjustment problems. Instead of seeking political solutions to the problems of young people, they chose therapeutic remedies, thereby deflecting criticisms of capitalism onto its victims."

Excerpts from The Tyranny of the Therapeutic State

Anyone dealing with the hierarchical structure of institutions these days may want to understand them better so to more meaningfully challenge those portions (or entireties) in which they feel pained by. These excerpts may be pivotal.

Reminiscence Writing - Keighley

How I got the wrong bus and ended up bumping into space aliens (or maybe they were fireflies)

star date

star date may 19 2007

Interview with Arnold Mindell: Dreambody Process Work

An interview with Arnold Mindell, a physicist who trained in Jungian psychology and then drew on many different influences, especially Gestalt therapy, to develop Process Work, an awareness practice with applications to mental health/extreme states of consciousness, bodywork, therapy, organizational development, and conflict resolution.

Bipolarity: Illness or Evolution?

Now there is a question to make us all wonder. Has it ever occurred to any of us that have been afflicted in one way or another with what society calls "mental illness" that we're possibly just in transformation?

The Best Medicine

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The Return of the Prophets

This essay draws on traditional biblical and greek texts and argues for the equivalence between prophecy and genius. We explore the connections between madness and prophecy, and madness and genuis and everything in between.
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