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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. I had also begun to study positive psychology and found advice to be accurate and insightful but also often overly complex and devoid of humor. Change Your Life ( Front Porch Press, 2022 ).

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‘I believe in the value of social work’: launch editor looks back as Community Care turns 50

Community Care

This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Even at university, Mark got involved with the International Voluntary Service, where he started a group to help psychiatric patients with painting and decorating. The group amassed over a hundred people.

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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. I had also begun to study positive psychology and found advice to be accurate and insightful but also often overly complex and devoid of humor. Change Your Life ( Front Porch Press, 2022 ).

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Guest Post: Interview with Randye Kaye: Podcast Co-Host of Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches and Author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words

Bipolar Bandit

She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. I had also begun to study positive psychology and found advice to be accurate and insightful but also often overly complex and devoid of humor. Change Your Life ( Front Porch Press, 2022 ).

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. When the interviewers go to Maya's home. a confused one'. In short she's consistently invalidated rather than offered recognition.

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psychosis, violence, and the fear of madness

Clinical Philosophy

The psychological community often attempts to combat the stigma suffered by the mentally ill by challenging the view that people suffering schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions are physically dangerous. It is very slightly more common for people with psychiatric diagnoses to commit violent crimes than for those without such diagnoses.

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what's love got to do with it?

Clinical Philosophy

On this view, the love - despite it being the real mutative ingredient - isn’t what’s paid for; what’s paid for is the psychological ‘mine clearance’ or defence deactivation - so that the love can then shine through and do its work. Laing and Esterson interview her together with her parents. He used to laugh them off.’ Nobody visits.