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10/11/2021

https://psyche.co/ideas/depression-is-more-than-low-mood-its-a-change-of-consciousness

"Similar sorts of structural changes to conscious experience occur after taking psychedelics. Examples include the well-documented phenomenon known as ‘ego dissolution’ – the breakdown and loss of self in its entirety – or the dramatic warping of space in the psychedelic state. In both dreams and psychedelic states, people report robust, wide-ranging alterations that disturb and alter not only their sensory experiences but their conception of themselves and their connection to reality and other people."

Understanding depression as an altered state of consciousness, like a dream or drug trip, could help people awaken from it

05/08/2020

Many people ask what artist coaches do, well, here is a piece by Artsy which clarifies that in a super nice manner.

You can find our category under: Art Coaching with a side of Psychotherapy.

" By utilizing cognitive-behavioral techniques this type of artist coaching would be ideal for someone who wants to address both their creative practice and everything else that comes with it. It’s more of a whole-person approach, but one that can introduce its own unanticipated anxieties."

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artist-coach-do

For more info: www.iscoaching.art 🖤💙

Artist coaches offer services to both professional artists and hobbyists. We spoke to five of them to learn about what this type of counseling entails.

17/07/2020

“Many of the contemporary forms of illness and individual distress that we treat and engage with certainly seem to be correlated with and amplified by the processes and byproducts of capitalism. In fact, you might say that capitalism is in many respects a mental illness generating system – and if we are serious about tackling not only the effects of mental distress and illness, but also their causes and origins, we need to look more closely, more precisely, and more analytically at the nature of the political and economic womb out of which they emerge, and how psychology is fundamentally interwoven with every aspect of it.”

By Rod Tweedy Originally published at Red Pepper . Mental illness is now recognised as one of the biggest causes of individual distress and misery in our societies and cities, comparable to poverty and unemployment. One in four adults in the UK today has been diagnosed with a mental illness,

04/07/2020

Great weekend everyone!

02/07/2020

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14/06/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/psychedelic-drugs-treat-depression?fbclid=IwAR3cFkpHauBJCiG2eTexIlLIYe7PBfVnBADOOVfUbPJDMZPgPIYwZ6v3OfM

At Imperial College we’ve been comparing psilocybin to conventional antidepressants – and the results are likely to be game-changing, says Robin Carhart-Harris