Monthly Archives: April 2011
Monsters in the Field
(Continued of “From Peter Pan to Hypnotherapy”) My psychologist, Dr. Paul M. Cohen, and I also used hypnotherapy for other things. Consequent to menopause, I had developed uncontrolled bleeding. Paul and I went to the gynecologist who insisted that I had … Continue reading
From Peter Pan to Hypnotherapy
(Continued from yesterday’s “PPP, DDD and Me”) Whoa, dude, I said to the recovering psychiatrist. I’m not waking up because I have nightmares. I’m waking up because I have to go to the bathroom. The anger, pain and self-hatred are … Continue reading
PPP, DDD and Me
I went to the Empathic Therapy Conference because it included workshops about drugs and drug damage. (All I understand of empathic therapy is that it’s what you do when you accept people as people, not as diagnosable units of sickness, … Continue reading
Empathic Therapy: Hopefulness for “Schizophrenics”
So at the Empathic Therapy Conference I ask Dick, the therapist from Grand Rapids, if I can sit with him for his protection, and off we go to How Psychiatric Drugs Work and How They Get FDA Approval: Peter R. … Continue reading
The “Chemical Imbalance” Lie
So there I am at Peter Breggin’s Empathic Therapy Conference, in the workshop on SSRI Antidepressants Adverse Effects, and the unknown M.D. starts talking about “chemical imbalance.” He says there is no such thing. I was put on antidepressants, told … Continue reading
An Improbable Recovery
by Anonymous I began to face life with the ominous diagnosis of Schizophrenia in February 2004. I was living and working in Silicon Valley and had begun hearing voices five months prior to my second and final voluntary hospitalization at Good … Continue reading
April is the Cruelest Month
Saturday I went back to Peter Breggin’s Empathic Therapy Conference, but first I went for a long ride. I did not intend to but, because I am disabled and in a wheelchair, and therefore poor, I have to use paratransit, i.e., … Continue reading
Replying to the Recovering Psychiatrist
In regard to the good fairy, honorable physicians, and other fictional creatures—we are an immature nation that still wants daddy to take care of us. That’s the whole book right there. Physicians and the American medical industry get away with … Continue reading
Empathic Therapy and Healing our Homecoming Troops
I wheeled into Psychotherapy and Medication for Military Stress: Maj. Maria Kimble, MSW, LCSW, at Dr. Peter Breggin’s Empathic Therapy Conference. Earlier in the afternoon, I had noticed a young woman sitting in profile to me. She had brown hair … Continue reading
Behind the Locked Doors of Inpatient Psychiatry 