TimW

TimW

  • Joined: January 11, 2023
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Deakin Community Mental Health Co-Op Project

The Deakin Community Mental Health Co-Op is a local initiative being developed by lived-experience advocates and peer supporters who believe that mental health care should be compassionate, community-based, and guided by the people who use it. It will provide services for people living in the federal electorate of Deakin which includes suburbs like Ringwood, Croydon, Nunawading and more.

Soteria

NOTE The Soteria project has currently been mothballed. The Australian federal government have made it quite clear to us that they are not interested in even discussing Soteria houses at this time. For a long time there has been no…

Community Mental Health Co-Operatives

A New Way Forward in Mental Health Across Australia, many lived experience workers (LEWs) are frustrated by a system that talks about recovery but rarely puts people with real experience in charge. Too often, services are expensive, impersonal, or simply…

Spirituality And Madness

The legalisation of psychedelics for mental health treatment in Australia seems likely to present quite a few challenges to the psychiatric profession. They are going to have to come to terms with the fact that for many people, spiritual experiences play a significant part in their mental health.

The Ten Day Voyage

This is a true account of a psychotic episode based on a recorded conversion that took place around 1964 between Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing and a man named Jesse Watkins. The account  remains faithful to Laing’s original written description. The…

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