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Soteria—A Human Response to a Human Problem

Mad in America

Just as we would not approach understanding characters in a book through a physical or biological analysis of them, it is unlikely to understand mental crises without understanding the important components of the story and of human relationships within the crisis.

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Overcoming Disaster Fatigue, Part 2: Some Solutions

Psychiatric Times

Increase emotional strength with a renewed vision and community support, but also be aware that too much resilience can be numbing and thereby even risky. It may seem paradoxical, but those who care most and work most to prevent and address disasters often have the most difficult mourning process because they did care so much.

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Where Did All the People Go?

Mad in America

Fuller Torrey to assert in his book Out of the Shadows that deinstitutionalization was a “psychiatric Titanic.” Not much is recorded about efforts to connect them with community supports. Fuller Torrey’s book Surviving Schizophrenia in 1983. By 1994, state hospital population in the US had declined to 71,619.

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Reporting from Canada, #3: A Holocaust Survivor Story

Psychiatric Times

Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Key Takeaways Holocaust survivor stories reveal psychiatric implications, including PTSD and intergenerational trauma, with resilience often aided by community support and personal resilience. Louis on Sunday, May 19, 2024.

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“Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown

Mad in America

’ O’Sullivan suggests that for recovery, community support is needed, including ‘…a community that can tolerate imperfection and failure, and which has the humility to put aside its vested interests.’ Worse still, the patients may find themselves in battles with the medical establishment.’

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Conference Colleague Spotlight: Juan Gonzalez

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

With support from our local Lowes, we built a therapeutic food garden for veterans, and were gearing up for planting season around Memorial Day weekend. Thanks to strong community support, this event has evolved into a veteran celebration, complete with a cookout and live music. What are you hoping to learn at NatCon25?

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Irrational Polypharmacy: How Integrated Mental Health Treatment Can Help

Mad in America

She published a number of books such as Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment and The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs. .” Over the years I have been following Joanna Moncrieff, a British psychiatrist and academic.