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Busting Myths about Psychosis & Antipsychotics Thursday, Recording available

3/13/2023

 
A Message from ISPS-US:
Thank you everyone for attending our webinar with Dr Joanna Moncrieff! We appreciated all your interaction through questions and chat, which enriched the event.

For those of you who were unable to attend live, or who want to watch Dr Moncrieff's presentation again, you may now view the recording here: 
https://youtu.be/PRX2-QurjxI

You may also find her PowerPoint slides here 

And a copy of the chat is available here

Talk Therapies Take On a Vital Role in Treating Schizophrenia By Matthew M. Kurtz on February 14, 2023 Scientific American February 2023 Issue

2/15/2023

 
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that, at its worst, ravages the totality of everyday life. It is hard to imagine what people with the severest forms of the ailment experience as anything but biologically driven, a direct consequence of aberrant chemical and electrical activity occurring deep within the brain.
As a neuropsychologist, I have often seen convincing evidence of schizophrenia's biological underpinnings in my dealings with patients. To illustrate what I mean, I will describe “Billy”—a composite profile derived from various patients I encountered in my work at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn. Billy exhibits the detachment from reality and emotional agony brought on by a psychotic episode, symptoms experienced by many people with schizophrenia.

​Read full article here.

Busting Myths about Psychosis & Antipsychotics with Dr. Jonna Moncrieff

2/15/2023

 
Dr. Moncrieff is a psychiatrist who made international headlines recently when the systematic umbrella review she lead authored was widely recognized as having debunked the serotonin theory of depression. One journalist even decried "the chemical imbalance theory of depression is dead!"

Dr. Moncrieff will be presenting a webinar on Thursday February 23rd at 1pm Eastern Time, to similarly bust some biomedical myths associated with psychosis.

For full information click here 

​Register here: https://bit.ly/ISPSMoncrieff

Developing countries: The outcomes paradox by T. V. Padma

12/26/2022

 
The pattern for most diseases is clear: the richer and more developed the country, the better the patient outcome. Schizophrenia appears to be different.

This paradox first came to light 40 years ago. Studies from Mauritius and Sri Lanka appeared to show better outcomes than developed countries: patients experienced fewer delusions and hallucinations, less disorganized speech, and improved social functioning. But these studies lacked standardized diagnostic criteria and assessment methods, and had varying attrition rates.

Read the full article here.

Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope

7/5/2022

 
BeyondHomeless.org invites you to a private screening of its new documentary Beyond Homeless: Finding Hope. This hard-hitting, challenging film explores the root causes of street homelessness—and presents transformational, proven solutions.

Read the report: Beyond Homeless: Policy Solutions for the Bay Area and Beyond

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Make a donation to support our mission.

Prefer to watch the film on your Smart TV, Apple TV, or other streaming device? Here's how: Click the Watch Now button above. Once you've registered and the film starts playing, click the Watch Later button in the upper right corner of the video player. In the popup window, log into your Vimeo account, or create a new Vimeo account. Then download the Vimeo app on your other device, log in there and the film will be listed in your Watch Later list.


AVAILABLE TO STREAM: FEB 16TH - JUL 31ST

Link to video here.

Services provided by the homeless shelter in Grass Valley

7/5/2022

 
Information about the homeless shelter in Grass Valley and information about their Hospitality House project.
Grass Valley is northeast of Sacramento.
​
Read the full information here.

Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices. By Daniel Bergner

5/30/2022

 
Caroline Mazel-Carlton began hearing voices when she was in day care. Mornings, by the time she was in middle school, a bowl of oatmeal awaited her for breakfast next to a white saucer of colorful pills. Her voices remained vibrant. They weren’t within her head; they spoke and screamed from outside her skull. They belonged to beings she could not see.

Read full article on New York Times
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Breaking the Silence (2021)(YouTube)

6/14/2021

 

Making Contact with the Human Experience by Matt Ball

5/8/2021

 
Mary Duhig (2005) described the role of supporter in mental health as an experience that encounters common humanity. She notes, ‘Psychotherapy is an ethical enterprise… a work of love, for it must be open to the value of any other person … someone with whom we share a common humanity’.  Mary goes on to suggest the goal of our work is to ‘discover what is a good life within the parameters of a person’s life’.  She is inviting us to be deeply connected to the human within ourselves and the other with whom we are seeking to be in a human-to-human relationship.  

​Read the full article here

On 4/22/21, award winning author Robert Whitaker will lead an ISPS-US webinar on “The Rising Non-Pharmaceutical Paradigm for "Psychosis" -12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT (New York time)

4/12/2021

 
Join in to learn how current research is questioning past assumptions on antipsychotics, and how nonpharmaceutical approaches are springing up globally.

See full information here.
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