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We as therapists do not need to take a position on a metaphysical reality or not, the important thing is that we do not medicalize transpersonal experiences as morbid, since in many cases they are actually helpers, a rescue and for the person an actual experience.

We have lost in the District Court and in the Court of Appeal. Now we are going back to the Supreme Court, says a ready-to-fight Inger-Mari Eidsvik before the case is to be heard again in the highest court in Norway. If the plaintiffs win, the case is sent back to the District Court for a new hearing.

We invite you to read the poem “Cruelty became fashionable”, a collaboration by Gabriel Hereñú and leave your comments

In this article, Neha Jain writes about her field work and wonders what kind of ‘care’ and ‘help’ are possible in the absence of real consent.

We are speaking with Rory Adams, music therapist and Deirdre Howard, Community drum facilitator and hope your interest is peeked by our latest podcast.

In this video, in addition to her personal story, Helene shares the need for a paradigm shift in psychiatry and she does this from the perspective of the professional and the survivor – a rich and powerful combination.

However, it should be considered that even in the presence of a violent demonstration of dissent, the response of a state governed by the rule of law cannot consist in the use of health treatment, but in the use of police action and criminal repression.

"I had a sister who was a couple of years older than me, who suffered from very bad anxiety in adolescence, and my mother always came and was afraid, she was afraid of that anxiety. And he always said that "take this, take diapam, take that, take this, now you have to go to Auroora" and I saw that it was terribly bad, that anxiety. Later I have come across that everyone is afraid of psychosis and that psychosis is a terrible misfortune for a person."

It is not a problem that fear and powerlessness enter the work. It only becomes harmful if care providers do not recognize it or run away from it. Coercion is then the escape route par excellence.

Another challenge is to find psychologists who have any reading about damage caused by psychiatric drugs and who do not interpret the option of not using them as "resistance to treatment".