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How to Tell the Difference Between Shame and Guilt - Mental Help Desk

7/12/2014

 

Nature and Mental Health

5/24/2014

 
....As this pain and loss increases as a result of living under an industrial growth culture that maximizes profit, regardless of the impact it has on all of life, we need to investigate alternative modalities that focus on prevention and not just intervention.

Ecotherapy attempts to do this by recognizing that the individual is embedded in ecological, social, familial, inter-personal, and intra-psychic systems. Ecotherapy is an umbrella term for ....... read more

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The Unseen Self in Mental Health Treatment

6/5/2013

 
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also some reason in madness”
~Friedrich Nietzsche 

A recent article in the New York Times documented one woman's transformation of self and identity while living with bipolar I disorder. Her experience navigating through the mental health delivery system in the United States brings to light the culturally embedded beliefs about what it means to be mentally ill or mentally healthy. She discusses how losing her sense of identity and sense of self was overlooked in the treatment process. For many clinicians, mental and emotional challenges are considered medical problems to be treated soley by focusing on the symptoms of an illness rather than a client's lived experience.....

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5/31/2013

 

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