TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS
Recovery from Schizophrenia Without Medication
January 10, 2012 Take
These Broken Wings shows that people can recover fully from
schizophrenia without psychiatric medication.
According to most of the mental health field, and of course the
pharmaceutical industry, this is not possible.
How little they know – or want to know!
The film centers on the lives of two women who both recovered
from severe schizophrenia.
OPEN DIALOGUE
An Alternative, Finnish Approach to Healing Psychosis
February 14, 2012 In
the far north of Finland a group
of innovative family therapists converted the area’s traditional mental
health system, which once boasted some of Europe’s poorest outcomes for
schizophrenia, into one that now gets the best results in the world.
They call their approach Open Dialogue.
They have literally eliminated schizophrenia in their area
because people recover before the six months required to be labeled with
that diagnosis.
HEALING HOMES
An Alternative, Swedish Model for Healing Psychosis
March 13, 2012 Healing
Homes chronicles the work of the Family Care Foundation in Gothenburg,
Sweden -- a program which helps people recover from psychosis without
medication. Healing Homes weaves
together interviews with clients, farm families, and staff members to
create both a powerful vision of medication-free recovery and an
eye-opening critique of the medical model of psychiatry.
A live presentation by James B. (Jim) Gottstein, Esq.
April 10, 2012 Reprising his popular talk for the Graduate Psychology Program at Alaska Pacific University (see, clip), this free public presentation addresses common myths and misunderstandings about people diagnosed with mental illness, what tends to help, what doesn't, and what tends to harm. This talk will pull together what the research shows regarding standard and alternative treatments for people diagnosed with serious mental illness, broken into segments on children and youth as well as adults and the elderly. Most importantly, it will go through what directions the data suggests people and policy makers should take.
