From Aeon News Today

Throughout history, scientists have made inflated promises about medical genetics, vowing that the field will prevent or cure all diseases.

In the 1960s, psychedelic research was driven underground. Now it’s re-emerging – with lessons for the study of psychosis.

Peer support provides a cathartic space for refuge that transcends the constraints of expert-delivered formal services in favor of a more equitable relationship.

The tōjisha-kenkyū movement makes space for people with mental health and other challenges to study their own experiences.

In order to understand and heal mental distress, we must see our minds as existing in relationships, not inside our heads.

Spiritual highs and mental breakdowns are both products of the same evolved brain system granting us the power to transform.

"Our basic needs never change. The need to be seen and appreciated...the need to belong. The need for nearness and care, and for a little love! This is given only through slowness in human relations." ~ Norwegian philosopher Guttorm Fløistad

From Aeon: Even before knowing the research on ECT, I’d had a gut reaction, as a young psychiatric nursing aide, that something was dreadfully wrong.