A Visit into the Lithuanian Mental Health System
In November of 2011 I spent two weeks in Lithuania — a fascinating time. Some colleagues in Scandinavia connected me with a progressive psychiatrist of about my age who is the director of the biggest...
View ArticleSome Observations of Soteria-Alaska
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead I write this piece from Anchorage, Alaska,...
View ArticleComponents for a Good Neuroleptic Withdrawal Program
The United States desperately needs good programs to help people withdraw from neuroleptics, that is, antipsychotic drugs. From all I have seen and heard, there aren’t any — none at least that can...
View ArticleReflections on Being a Therapist
Three-and-a-half years ago I quit my career as a psychotherapist. I’d done it for ten years in New York City and had given it my all. It was a career that chose me, loudly, when I was 27 years old....
View ArticlePROTEST PSYCHIATRY – My Newest Film, Free!
I just made a new film, called PROTEST PSYCHIATRY, on the psychiatric survivor-lead protest of the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in New York City. And I’m thrilled by how it turned...
View ArticleDeconstructing Psychiatric Diagnoses: An Attempt At Humor
Based on my experience both as a therapist and client in the mental health field, I have learned that when therapists or psychiatrists give you the following diagnoses all too often here is what they...
View ArticleOde to Biological Psychiatry
Sometimes I get so sick of the lies of biological psychiatry that I must speak out. At these moments I find silence to be a kind of emotional death: a death of my spirit, a death of my critical...
View ArticleIs it Better to Be a Life Coach or a Psychotherapist?
I worked for ten-and-a-half years as a psychotherapist, nine of them licensed and one-and-a-half as a social work intern. For the last four years I have worked as a filmmaker. I have considered of...
View ArticleAn Essay on Finnish Open Dialogue: A Five-Year Follow-Up
It has been five years since I traveled to Western Lapland in Finland to film my documentary “Open Dialogue” on their Open Dialogue Project—the program, as I stated in the film, presently getting the...
View ArticleIs My Therapist Good or Not?
I frequently get asked by people on the internet whether or not I think their therapist is good. For a variety of reasons, I usually do not feel comfortable answering them directly. However, I do...
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