Monica Cassani – A New Vision for Mental Health

My Reflections on the Finnish Open Dialogue Project

Author: Editorial 1st July 2019 0 Comments

This article was created as a guest-post on Everything Matters: Beyond Meds, a blog-site run by Monica Cassani. The article stems from conversation she had with film-maker Daniel Mackler, the article’s author, who revealed that the psychiatric hospital he’d visited (when…
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collaborative practice

Daniel Mackler, Everything Matters: Beyond Meds, Finland, Keropudas Hospital, Monica Cassani, Open Dialogue, psychiatry

Is Depression Unhappiness?

Author: Editorial 4th June 2018 0 Comments

From an article by Monica Cassani (August 2013, Mad in America website): “I noticed in my wanderings through social media, after the article by Giles Fraser in The Guardian titled Taking Pills for Unhappiness Reinforces the Idea That Being Sad is Not Human , that all sorts of people came out crying ‘foul.’ How dare Giles, they…
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emotion-focused care

depression, despair, Mad in America, Monica Cassani, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, unhappiness