TimW

TimW

  • Joined: January 11, 2023
  • Articles: 14
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Lived Experience Workers Co-Operative

Mental Health Lived Experience Workers Co-Op An initiative is underway to establish a worker owned and operated cooperative in Australia for mental health services While still in the formative stage, it is envisaged that suitably trained Lived Experience mental health…

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. There has also been no recent interest from…

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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