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The book “Rethi
nking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis” by Paris Williams is now free, in pdf version, at this website. That’s cool, because the book is a good resource in understanding how psychosis can be understood in a psychological way, and how recovery can be supported. Paris Williams has thought deeply about these issues, and has a good understanding of both the problems and the possible solutions.
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Check out a few of us exploring both the possibilities and some challenges of using an Internal Family Systems approach for "psychosis"
How We Started the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network
by Ed Herzog
"Voice hearers have created a community. Often, for the first time, they feel safe to talk about their experiences and reach out for support."
. @JasperFeyaerts starts the Too Mad to Be True III conference on the Paradoxes of Madness at @Guislainmuseum in Ghent, Belgium with a quote from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. #tmtbt #toomadtobetrue #tmtbt3 #tmtbtiii
"What Matters to you?: a survivor-centred antidote to "What's Wrong with you" or "What Happened to you?"
@Mad_In_America
Long read in the Guardian on avatar therapy for #hearingvoices. Avatar therapy uses software to create an animated avatar representing a distressing voice to bring a tangible experience of the voice into the therapy session (thread)
I'm hoping all my followers in the US are either working or donating money to get out the vote - it would feel so bad to let Trump win when he could have been stopped with a little more effort!
