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Spiritual experiences should be understood as valuable for recovery, and not treated as illness or madness. The Swedish social therapist Savannah Rosén gives advice on how we can help people in crisis who have had transpersonal experiences.
The conversation starts casually, we started talking about the weather, for Emiliano1 at that time it is in winter, he comments on the inconveniences that arise during the time by not having heating or electric oven, for my part we were going through a heat wave, which I was suffering a lot, during the talk we talked about those comments where we are in the "warmest summer, so far" emphasizing that because of global warming the situation is becoming more and more complex, the most extreme climates.
Psychiatrist Yousaf Raza details the problems with psychiatric health care in Pakistan and shows how to find a way forward.
However, whilst folk argue over semantics and stifle open debate, are we losing sight of the purpose of grassroots awareness-raising campaigns and social activism?
Maybe more psychiatrists are needed but their current approach in seeing all human distress through a biomedical lens does not present a comprehensive view of human health and is often also dangerous and damaging.