Tag Archives: Emile Kraeplin

Meditation as a cure for mental illness

Posted on August 15, 2010 by

In 1989, when I went inpatient for the first time, I thought there was going to be a line-up of hippy psychologists with beards and geeky glasses and long hair who talked about Jung as easily as Freud. I believed in the notion of counseling and as yet, did not know what psychiatry was or that their idea of ‘treatment’ was not at all the same as humanistic psychology. I soon discovered that being inpatient and receiving psychiatric treatment wasn’t anything like I had fantasized. Continue reading →

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Anatomy of an Epidemic, a review

Posted on August 13, 2010 by

In ‘Anatomy of an Epidemic’ Robert Whitaker takes us on a journey and demonstrates how industrial compounds and various chemical ‘magic bullets’ evolved into the psychiatric drugs and ‘blockbusters’ as we know them today. He reveals the faulty logic, media … Continue reading →

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