By: Alex
How great to infuse the system with this perspective and information, Michael! Congrats and great luck with this. I’m hitting up the system with the issue of disenfranchisement as the core wound–first...
View ArticleBy: Dr. Michael Cornwall
Thank you Alex and great luck with your important work on disenfranchisement!
View ArticleBy: David Bates
Hi Michael:)) This is great news, and hopefully evidence of a turn towards discerning the nature psychosis, away from an “object” defining and mechanistic view which has lost touch with the primary...
View ArticleBy: Vanessa Krasinski
Hi Michael– Any chance this training will make it to the east coast? Would love to attend.
View ArticleBy: Dr. Michael Cornwall
Yhank you again David for contributing another wonderfully rich comment to our on-going exploration.
View ArticleBy: Dr. Michael Cornwall
Hi Vanessa, yes that is possible next year. Thank you for your encouragement! I’m exploring a webinar training too. It is great to see your very valuable blogging on MIA on media, popular culture and...
View ArticleBy: Faith
Hi Michael – Thanks so much for the mental image of state-funded mental health workers considering the possibility that “psychosis” may be something much more intrinsically meaningful and purposeful...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
Since my former comment was referenced in the above comment, I’ll leave one more… “Thanks so much for the mental image of state-funded mental health workers considering the possibility that “psychosis”...
View ArticleBy: Dr. Michael Cornwall
Thank you Anonymous. My anger and outrage at what is wrongly done in the name of medicine often reaches the boiling point too. I always look forward to your comments because you are true to your...
View ArticleBy: Dr. Michael Cornwall
I welcome and am engaged by your words as always Faith. Why is that? I believe it is because your emotionally vulnerable and heart wide open messages come from that inner sense of numionous reckoning...
View ArticleClik here to view.
By: Stanley Holmes
Keep up the good work, Michael . I like your way of asking the question: “If madness isn’t what psychiatry says it is, then what is it?”. Even on MIA, it would probably be hard to find two persons in...
View ArticleBy: Dr. Michael Cornwall
Thank you Stanley, It’s nice to hear from you again. Yes, we need a whole spectrum of supportive alternatives to the medical model. If I end up on the dark side of the moon again in the future, I hope...
View ArticleBy: Faith
I was just re-reading: http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/05/mad-pride-and-spiritual-community-thoughts-on-the-spiritual-gift-of-madness/ …and thinking about how these considerations fit into paradigms...
View ArticleBy: Dr. Michael Cornwall
Thank you again Faith. I agree that we should be able to ascribe our own meaning to our emotional tuths and life experiences. That is allot easier to do about madness after we have stopped being very...
View ArticleBy: mjk
“And with that, I re-enter retirement from commenting on this site.” Self correction? Self “punishment”? The editors have you supported, Anonymous. I’m not the only one who has expressed an...
View ArticleBy: David Bates
“Form yourself or you will be formed by others!” To what degree is our sense-of-self formed by “affect,” and does affect lie at the root of a psychotic experience? I think Faith hits the nail on head...
View ArticleBy: Dr. Michael Cornwall
Thank you again David! In my blog essay here on MIA called- “Our emotions- the sole creators of every word, voice, symbolic image, bodily movement and thought”- I wanted to share how much I believe...
View ArticleBy: David Bates
“My mantra question- “If madness isn’t what psychiatry says it is, then what is it?” I do believe this is the most fundamental question in the current mental illness debate and perhaps our current...
View ArticleBy: Dr. Michael Cornwall
Thank you again David! The emotions of awe, ecstacy. bliss, reverence, euphoria, inspiration, serenity, adoration, humor, compassion and love are our birthright. For some of us, to claim them means...
View ArticleBy: Alex
Thank you! It’s a bugger, that’s for sure. It will heal as we ingegrate our duality.
View ArticleBy: Mary Newton
> And with that, I re-enter retirement from commenting on this site. I admire anyone with the patience, to set foot in the world of government psychiatry, and try and rehumanize the approach...
View ArticleClik here to view.
By: KCrowley
I agree, I think it can be so hugely exhausting, frustrating, heartbreaking and often seemingly HOPELESS to try to impact public mental health. I am specifically referring to your statement, I admire...
View ArticleBy: KCrowley
Oh, Mary, what a lovely response. I wish I’d read yours before I posted. You already said it all! Kathleen
View ArticleBy: starbody
David, My first response to your comments here is “WOW”, my second response is “YES”. What a deep offering to contemplate. “Extending consciousness sensation, finding the words or images, means...
View Article
