This is a 5 hour video series (five 45-60 minute segments) put together by Doug Turkington MD from England on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Informed Care for Psychosis for Families and Caregivers. This program was created by Dr. Turkington at the request of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) in Marin County, California.


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In what will be among the largest and boldest urban police reform experiment in decades San Francisco is creating and preparing to deploy teams of professionals from the fire and health departments — not police — to respond to most calls for people in a psychiatric, behavioral or substance abuse crisis.

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Tanya Luhrmann is a Watkins University Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford. Her work explores how cultural contexts shape the experience of mental distress, particularly voice-hearing and the symptoms associated with psychosis. She also turns the lens on the practice of Western psychiatry itself, investigating how the field represents the mind and how these representations influence our collective understanding of reality.

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