Another Side of the Story
As therapists, we are taught to form a collaboration with a client free from bias; to dispel our own values, beliefs, and opinions in order to meet a client where he/she is, and to simply […]
Mental Health
Dr. Paul Dunion – Trouble With Taboo
All through history there have been shamans, medicine men, priests, witch doctors and mental health professionals deciding what is normal and what is taboo. There are times when we ascribe the description of taboo to […]
Letter to the Mother of a “Schizophrenic”: We Must Do Better Than Forced Treatment
A few months ago I met your son. He said he would be waiting for us in the Berkeley park near where he sleeps outside at night, but at the last minute he called and […]
Jennifer Bullock, M.Ed., M.L.S.P., LPC – Telling the truth is dangerous to your mental health
With all the hubbub swirling in the media these days about truth telling, embellishing, and credibility, I thought I would share my motto: I’m pro-lying. A group therapy client recently confessed that, while at a […]
Coalition Urges Governor: Protect Patients, Stop Gutting Confidentiality
(Los Angeles, California, August 20, 2014) — A coalition of nonprofits alarmed about the gutting of patient confidentiality urges California Governor Jerry Brown to veto pending legislation that requires mental health practitioners to police their […]
Jennifer Bullock, LPC – Admit it: We need each other!
I recently watched a fascinating interview of comedian Dave Chappelle. He was being interviewed by Maya Angelou as part of Sundance Channel’s Iconoclasts series. I jumped for joy when Chappelle explained to Angelou that his creative process […]
George Barton Cutten, Ph.D. – Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
[Excerpt from Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing (1911)] INTRODUCTION I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when the one suffers, […]
Dr. Joseph Valks – The Sneaky World of Thought Viruses
Thought viruses can have a strange power. Have you ever had a catchy jingle, phrase or song that seems to go round and round in your head, and you are unable to clear your head […]
Jennifer Bullock, LPC – Content and Unconventional: The Self and Society Reconciliation Movement
Our nation is mentally ill… we need a new conversation on mental health, folks! Mass shootings, daily unnoticed violence everywhere, un-neighborly neighborhoods, poor health delivered by the most expensive health care system in the world, […]