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itsmeagain

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  1. Absolutely.LSD intoxication causes symptoms so soon to schizophrenia and Laing really let himself down here.
  2. Yes Angury good points.Apparently Soteria do exist in Bradford but where I do not know. I lived and worked many years there and not once did I ever hear of Soteria . Interestingly, you say mh problems change over time and culture. Yes. Did you know homosexuality was a mental disorder until about 1980 in UK? It...the diagnostic process...is about societal shifts in perception of acceptable as much as it is objective fact.
  3. I feel the survivor movement in the USA and the various groups such as Soteria network in UK, are very important. Sadly the more one looks deep into psychiatry, the more you realise pros for both traditional psychiatry and for critics of the system. Criticism of psychiatry is at its best when talking of psychiatry's connections to the drug industry ie pharmaceutical companies. Not very ethical at times. Yet a consultant psychiatrist faced with a very distressed individual in a hospital. Can she offer her in depth counselling and then blame childhood trauma? Well first it's not quite attainable to get a person in that state to listen to anything. Medication? Yes please, cry all professionals....and rightly so in such cases. Such fascinating and complex ideas stem from one's readings in mental health.
  4. Great post Angury. During my own research in this area of anti psychiatry, I read a lot of Laing about 25 years ago. This Kingsley Hall was an experiment that ended up being ridiculed by mainstream biological psychiatry due to the regression, baby feeding etc.
  5. Yes rooibosch with vanilla is a nice drink.We can get it in most supermarkets in England now. If I have it then I put soya milk in it.
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