Sacred Disorder | Cliff Bostock’s blog – ‘Finally, I came to regard as sacred the disorder of my mind’ (Rimbaud)
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James Hillman complained frequently that psychology has become “de-souled” through medicalization. This actually began almost as soon as Freud published his first work. Freud knew that in order for his theories to be taken seriously, they had to be scientific in their presentation. But privately, he admitted his work had more in common with the [...]
When therapy is all about the money
Is talk therapy going silent? Not entirely, but the Saturday edition of the New York Times featured an article entitled “Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy.” This is very old news to anyone in the mental health field — as a patient or practitioner. But it’s good to see that The [...]
Electroshock and resurrection
I listened to a “Speaking of Faith” program entitled “Biology of the Sprit,” about the work of Sherwin Nuland, today. I’ll write more about that later, but I came across this moving video I wanted to be sure I didn’t lose track of. It’s about Nuland’s experience with electroshock therapy but it’s also a story [...]
Psychiatry: still crazy after all these years
I’ve been a longtime critic of mainstream psychotherapy. You can read several articles I’ve written on the subject on my original site, Soulworks.net (click on the “writings” button). Today I received an email from Christopher Lane, an English professor and author of Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness, alerting me to his column in [...]