Beyond the Brain: Pat Bracken’s Case for Post-Psychiatry Over the past two decades, a group of psychiatrists and philosophers have argued that modern mental health care has become overly dominated by technological and biological thinking. One of the most influential voices in this movement is Pat Bracken, whose work helped define what became known […]
When I tried to find help, I was at the lowest point of my life – I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t think. I looked – I really looked for help – my wife really looked! But, it was no good! I kept asking “What was wrong with me” and “How can they help me?” nothing
Why EMDR doesn’t work for complex PTSD and what actually does Dr Sophilia Lark, the founder and CEO of Unified Wholeness Lifestyle, made a video 5 years ago about EMDR and the reasons why it does always help people who have suffered from complex trauma, particularly PTSD. In many ways, Sophilia is the kind of
Werewolves in legend and myth may be our earliest record of our ancestor’s attempts at understanding DMN Dysregulation and its associated behavioural rupture. In the Arcadian myth of Lycaon, described in the Metamorphoses by Ovid, Lycaon commits a grotesque violation. Here in Spain, Manuel Blanco Romasanta was accused of lycanthropy due to the extreme level
For anyone working in the ‘Front-Facing’ sector of the mental health professions, empathy and the therapeutic alliance are considered to be vital components of successful treatment (Nienhuis, 2018). However, there seems to be a general confusion on what exactly ‘empathy’ is. Political figures and pundits have recently concluded that, under certain circumstances, empathy can be
The online tiff between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Allie Beth Stuckey, over the use of the word ‘empathy’ in political discourse, presents frontline mental health professionals with a bit of a pickle. It quickly became obvious that both ladies meant something completely different when they said the word ‘empathy’ and all of the subsequent media
