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Putting the pieces back together: Working through being pathologised and silenced

I was a busy, full-time working mother in my late twenties when I experienced a life crisis.  I went to my GP, supported by...

Opinion: Stephen Fry says psychiatry saved him, but what about listening to those it...

As a voice-hearer of 30 years – and 27 years as a user/survivor of psychiatry - I could say, like Stephen Fry did this...

What does the social model of disability have to do with emotional and mental...

Language and Framing: talking about what we mean when we talk about “disability” The language we use is influenced by what we know (or think...

Howl from a survivor: ‘Medicalised psychiatry is a failed entity’

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” Allan Ginsberg Howl We are not mad. It is the rest of society that...

A psychotic experience can help to process difficult memories

  The title of this article - a psychotic experience can help to process difficult memories - is from Jaakko Seikkula’s book Dialogue Improves—but Why?...