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“Psychiatric Yeti”

Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”:

Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

After decades of study, billions of dollars spent, and thousands of studies conducted, the failure to identify any genes for schizophrenia should definitively put to rest the notion that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder, according to E. Fuller Torrey.

By Peter Simons – January 20, 2024

Read more:
https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/psychiatric-yeti-schizophrenia-genetic/

Menopause Madness! from AD4E

Wednesday May 22, 2024 04:00AM – 06:30AM PDT

In 2025 there will be an estimated one billion women going through menopause (Hill, 1996). Prescriptions for anti-depressants are being offered before the question is explored as to whether a women is in the peri/menopause phase. This lack of recognition of the true impact can potentially disempower and disadvantage those most in need.

This workshop looks to understand how to manage the ever-expanding demographic of menopause whilst avoiding the marketing of the trojan horse of menopause that is being commodified at an alarming rate.

It will encourage participants to question the ‘why’ in the headlines indicating the rise in suicide rates amongst women in the 45-54 age bracket, higher rates of divorce, depression, anxiety, paranoia and rage and why women are leaving their careers. If peri/menopause is not the direct causation there is certainly room to discuss the correlation between such events – and we will not know until we talk about it openly.

Through discussion and not didactic conditioning from an ever present “McMedia Circus” this workshop will bring in the lived-experience voice/s alongside evidence-based facts. Challenging the seeming bias to treat those in the peri/menopause stage of life as a prescriptive ‘mental health’ tick box – next patient please! (Even NICE guidelines, are clear that HRT and not anti-depressants should be the first line treatment for low mood due to menopause).

Participants will be able to consider an emerging new paradigm which we believe reflects a human centred approach where the most valuable support for those in peri/menopause is in the recognition of the individual experience. From there we can collectively recognise how a co-produced support network can be built to offer what is needed in the peri/menopause phase – beyond the guaranteed consumers for the pharmaceutical industry.

Annesh de Vos will be presenting this workshop – supported by Dr Helen Douglas.

A CPD certificate for 2.5 hours will be available on request after the workshop.

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How to encourage brain cells to grow

Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret speaks on TEDtalks about sex, the taste of food, wine, depression, exercise, and comedy can affect neuro-cellular growth. 

from June 2015

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Love and the Person-Centered Approach: Eros, Agape, and Unconditional Positive Regard

Dr Manu Bazanno on Love and the Person-centered Approach: Eros, Agape, and Unconditional Positive Regard

Unconditional Positive Regard, a key notion in person-centered and humanistic therapies, means radical acceptance of self and others. It sits at the cusp of Agape (impersonal, divine love) and Eros (relational, transformative desire). The ancient Greeks had several other names for love, each of them related to different circumstances and interactions. We will explore some of these experientially and in theory, drawing on the work of Carl Rogers, Suzanne Keys, Peter Schmidt, Manu Bazzano, and others. The workshop is suitable to experienced therapists, trainees, and anyone interested in human development.

Dr Manu Bazzano is an author, person-centred/existential therapist/supervisor and internationally recognized lecturer and facilitator. He has been editor of Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies Journal Among his books: Re-Visioning Person-centred Therapy: the Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm (Routledge, 2018) and Nietzsche and Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2019). His latest book is Subversion and Desire: Pathways to Transindividuation.

www.manubazzano.com

This workshop will be recorded for delegates who can’t attend live.

A CPD certificate for 2 hours will be available after the workshop.

Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:00

Dr Manu Bazzano on Love and the Person-centered Approach

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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dr-manu-bazzano-on-love-and-the-person-centred-approach-tickets-776848724447

Cost: £17.70 (19.25 USD) to £69.50 ( 76.04 USD)

Creative Approaches to Voices, Visions, and Other Sensory Phenomena (WEBINAR) 1/25/2024

Upcoming Webinar 1/25/24 | Creative Approaches to Voices, Visions, and Other Sensory Phenomena

Creative Approaches to Voices, Visions, and Other Sensory Phenomena, with Tami Gatta, Creative Arts Therapist and co-founder of the Hearing Voices Network NYC.

Date: Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Time: 12-1:30pm (Eastern) 9am to 10:30 Pacific

Webinar Description 

When words do not suffice, how do people find ways to express? Learn more about strategies incorporating the use of art, drama and movement that allow individuals to both externalize and concretize unique experiences. Techniques are focused on expanding modes of communication, decreasing isolation, and exploring the potential for role play, role expansion, and humor.

Hearing Voices Course – Spring 2024

And if this isn’t exciting enough, stay tuned for ISPS-US’s Spring Workshop Series announcement, featuring Tami as one of six expert presenters exploring various psychological frameworks for working with Voice Hearing. The course will be capped at 40 participants.

About the Presenter:

Tami Gatta, MA, LCAT, RDT

Tami Michelle Gatta is a graduate of NYU’s Steinhardt School, where she earned her MA in Drama Therapy. A Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, she has chosen to further her trauma studies in both the US and abroad. In 2013, Tami became the first American to complete a 3-month externship with Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor in respite care and alternatives to hospitalization for individuals navigating voices, visions and other experiences deemed “psychosis.” In 2015, Tami began speaking more openly about her own trauma history and mental health struggles, ultimately becoming a Certified Peer Specialist. In 2016, she graduated from the Institute for Arts in Psychotherapy, where she went on to become Co-Director. In 2017, Tami was presented with the World Hearing Voices Congress Award for “Outstanding Contribution to the Growth and Development of the International Hearing Voices Movement.” Tami is the founder of Tami Gatta Mental Health Counseling, PLLC pending, where she provides individual psychotherapy and trauma-informed supervision to peers, students, clinicians and supervisors. She is also the co-founder of Curious Rebels, LLC, a CE granting, training and consulting firm, which offers professional support series on mental health and staff retention, the incorporation of peer specialists into the workforce, trauma-informed care, vicarious resilience, as well as a 3-year post-graduate program geared towards using improvisation and embodiment as a means of healing. Tami is a co-founder of Hearing Voices Network NYC, where she is a primary trainer in the Hearing Voices Movement. Tami is committed to ongoing personal growth, and emphasizes queer-empowering, anti-racist, fat liberation work that addresses historic and present inequities in mental health treatment.

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WE ARE NOT ALONE! (DUH!!!)

The Implications of the Reality of ETs on Earth Friday, January 19th 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PST)

Please register even if you can’t attend live and you’ll receive a link to the recording.

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Join us to learn more about this extraordinary topic. Humanity is entering its ET moment. A whole new era of human history is beginning.

PRESENTER

Jim Garrison, PhD, serves as Director of the Washington, DC Office of the New Paradigm Institute where he focuses on the US Government release to the public of information pertaining to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). He also serves as Convener of Humanity Rising Network, a daily global broadcast on issues of global concern.

Jim served as Founding President of Ubiquity University from 2005 – 2023. He continues to be involved with Ubiquity on the Board and as President Emeritus.  He was co-founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA (1992 – 1995) and President of the State of the World Forum (1995 – 2004) with Mikhail Gorbachev serving as Convening Chairman.

Jim received his B.A in History from the University of Santa Clara, an MA in History of Religion from Harvard University, and a PhD in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge University. He has written numerous books, including The Plutonium Culture, America as Empire, The Darkness of God: Theology after Hiroshima, Citizen Diplomacy, and Civilization and the Transformation of Power. He lectures on comparative philosophy and religion, world history and politics, and the implications of humanity’s contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligences.