This short video conveys the importance of medical professionals, social workers, mental health clinicians, and the community to have compassion and empathy to those who can not cope with the experience of hearing voices. With the introduction of the Hearing Voices groups in an allopathic hospital, voice hearers and pained persons learn the necessary healthy […]Read Post ›
Welcome to a space where inquiry, exploration, and discussion are encouraged and accepted from individuals from all walks of life. My intention with this site and future publications is to create an inclusive, compassionate community where all individuals from both sides of the mental health system are embraced as equals with inherent wisdom to teach and learn from […]Read Post ›
The Dark Side of the Shadow The inherent and overt manifestation of a spiritual emergency and psychotic break are almost synonymous with each other. Both need immediate treatment to keep themselves and others safe (Grof, et. al., 1989; Lucas, 2011; Perry, 1974). Yet, the choice of treatment provided is based on the perceiver’s […]Read Post ›
The Color Technique “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” ~ Harper Lee This psychotherapy group proved to be quite challenging, it was the last one on a Wednesday afternoon and the patients seemed particularly lethargic and speechless. Sensing the group’s mindset, I decided to use the color meditation technique […]Read Post ›
The Myth of the Wounded Healer as an Archetype According to Greek mythology, Chiron had a very solemn upbringing. He was born out-of-wedlock and of lust. Repulsed by his appearance, his mother rejected his existence, and also he was abandoned by his immortal father,the Titan, Kronos. Due to the abandonment by both of his parents, […]Read Post ›
“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care” ― Theodore Roosevelt Following the work of Carl Rogers’ Person Centered psychotherapy, Dr. Geller and Dr. Greenburg (2012) discuss the concept of presence in the therapeutic encounter as one of the greatest gifts one person can give to another. Even […]Read Post ›
John is too distraught and anxious. He is incapable of taking out the trash, sort out his laundry, even decide what to wear. Frantically, the only time he picks up the phone is to call his cousin and let her, miles away, guide him on how to do the mundane activities he was once able to do. Plagued by the […]Read Post ›
Historically, immorality and spiritual failings were banished from the righteous community members. Stigmatized nonconformists were exiled from the mainstream in an attempt to cure them from their transgressions: As the years progressed, the old stigmatizing mentality is torn down to bring in a new mentality: Mental Illness is the cause for the transgressions and lapse of reasoning: As the asylum […]Read Post ›
I told him to wait for me by the lobby. When I finally got the doctor on the phone, the doctor tells me to call PESP. I go find him and he is not in the lobby like I asked him to […]Read Post ›
The Art of Presence in Mental Health 