Dec 14, 2024
The IPU at Corrigan Mental Health Center. This is a psychiatric IPU in Fall River, MA. It's a DMH facility.
Best parts:
1) there are some excellent staff members (excellent both for patients and for co-workers), (e.g., OT Kyle, providers Max and Allison, nurses Christian and Jill, tech Sean, Social Worker Nicole).
2)...
Dec 11, 2024
Alenka Zupančič
Disavowal
This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to unsettling tectonic shifts in our social tissue. Unlike denialism and negation, disavowal functions...
Nov 28, 2024
Stijn Vanheule Why Psychosis Is Not So
Crazy A Road Map to Hope and
Recovery for Families and Caregivers An expert’s guide to humanizing psychosis through communication
offers key insights for family and friends to support loved ones
during mental health crises. Are we all a little crazy? Roughly 15 percent of the...
Nov 10, 2024
Peter Singer
Consider the turkey
Why this holiday season is a great time to rethink the traditional turkey feast.
Oct 11, 2024
Maria Balaska
Anxiety and wonder
On being human
Description
At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that
lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These uncanny moments
tend to be hastily dismissed as inconsequential, left without
explanation. Maria Balaska examines two such cases: wonder...