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• The Harm Reduction Guide for Coming Off
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Attention Locals:
This is a reminder for the local psychiatric hospital staff and the university staff and faculty involved. WAY back in 94/95, I told you as you listened in, “covertly’ as I understand it now, that “that which you are observing is altered by the act of observing it”, and also this, “that which you are observing is observing YOU.” I also mentioned Quantum leaps. Keep this in mind as you listen to this podcast above.
"I'm a fish in a goldfish bowl” is a metaphor.  It also means, “I have no privacy at all and I am being watched and judged all the time.” (like in psych hospitals)
So she hides under the bed, hiding from all of those who broke her with the staring and ridicule. Sometimes it is the broken one who 'literalizes' the metaphor and sometimes it is the doctor that does that.
 



The Wind Never Lies
By Steven Morgan

Reproduced here for free with permission of Steven Morgan
• Steven Shares His Experience
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<a href="http://lossofservice.bandcamp.com/album/campfire-psychiatry">New Song by Loss Of Service</a>

The Late John McCarthy Irish Advocate 01/26/2012
We Regret to Announce the Death  Of our friend, long time Psych activist, psychiatric survivour and outspoken critic of psychiatry, who spoke often on behalf of those who had their “Voices” taken away from them; John McCarthy, gone too soon at the age of 61. As  a remembrance of John and a way to continue to hear his voice now, I am ... More>
 
Gail Hornstein 01/22/2012
Madness Radio: Madness Survivor Voices   with Gail Hornstein First Aired 7-18-2007  Duration: 53:29 Longtime Freedom Center Ally Mt. Holyoke College Professor Gail Hornstein discusses first-person accounts of people who have lived through madness, and previews her upcoming book Agnes's Jacket. (Gail's Book Agnes's Jacket is now published and is available in my own city at the Public Library. PL) Rt/Ctrl-clck download  
 
Madness Radio: Delphine Brody 01/10/2012
Madness Radio: Delphine Brody Policy Advocacy First Aired 9-13-2006  Delphine Brody is a psych survivor and advocate with the California Network of Mental Health Clients who has years of experience working for substantial policy change on the local, state, and national level. Delphine also addresses efforts to stop forced ... More>
 
Madness Radio: Julie Spooner-Urban Shamanism 12/29/2011
Julie Spooner Urban Shamanism   First Aired 10-18-2006  Urban Shamanism with Julie Spooner, licensed psychologist from Brooklyn New York. Julie discusses a spiritual healing approach to madness and psychosis, including journeying through visionary states into alternate dimensions and interacting with illness and imbalance in their ... More>
 
Madness Radio: Ron Coleman 11/30/2011
Living With Voices Ron Coleman   First Aired 7-1-2011  Duration: Approx 50 mins  Are voices real -- or are they just auditory hallucinations and sign of mental illness? Is it best to try to control and get rid of voices -- or listen and discover their meaning? After being sexually abused by a priest and in grief ... More>
 

 
 Madness Radio:  
     
  Carole Hayes Collier     

          First Aired 11-1-2011 

Why are nearly a third of all elders in nursing homes given anti-psychotic drugs, despite life threatening side effects? Are medications being used as chemical restraints? Can nursing homes be places of dignity -- or should they be abolished? Carole Hayes-Collier was diagnosed schizophrenic at 19 and left to a lifetime of hospitalization. When she recovered, the abuses she witnessed inspired her to join the Gray Panthers and dedicate her life to elder rights and mental health.

Gray Panthers

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB11967291... 

Stop Drugging

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• Asylum Magazine Relaunch
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University Of Metaphysical Sciences 
This page has free audio downloads which I and others have found very relaxing and calming. Even if 'angels' etc. is not your thing, the delivery and cadence of these meditations may be helpful to you.
 
 
 
 
 

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"Life After Family" - My Chapter in a New Book

By Will Hall





Coming Off Psychiatric Medicine Website
 


The Leonard Roy Frank Quotationary

154 pages of information and inspiration brought to you as a free download
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• The Electroshock Quotationary
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Madness Radio:
Visionary Psychiatrist Daniel Fisher  

First Aired 8-1-2011 


Can breakdown sometimes be breakthrough?
Neuroscientist Daniel Fisher suffered an extreme emotional state and ended up in a locked psychiatric ward diagnosed with schizophrenia. His crisis of scientific faith fuelled his recovery, and he went on to become a practicing psychiatrist bringing new insights to work with people experiencing psychosis and their families. Today Dr. Fisher is Director of the National Empowerment Center, guided by a vision he had in solitary confinement of mental health system change, including the peer movement and hospital alternatives. 

http://www.power2u.org/ 

 Madness Radio: 
Physics Dreaming and Extreme States
Arnold Mindell  

First Aired 3-1-2011 Duration: 53:16   

  What is reality?
Why do people in extreme states feel connected to the universe, and experience uncanny and even supernatural events? Does quantum physics have something to teach us about madness? What if therapists were like indigenous tribal shamans, entering into clients' "psychotic" worlds as if stepping into a dream? Arnold Mindell studied with pioneering scientists Richard Feynman and Norbert Weiner and then became a Jungian therapist and founder of Process Oriented Psychology. He discusses his more than 40 years of work with individuals and groups, including people diagnosed with psychosis, and the ancient belief in a purposeful dreaming reality behind everyday events. 

http://www.aamindell.net/blog/books#arny

http://www.processwork.org

 http://www.sonic.net/~billkirn/mindell_
interview.html

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