Reflections from Inside

Person-centered medicine from deep inside: personal reflections of my depression and recovery

I myself have suffered from serious mental illness. This is my story of suffering and recovery. In the year of 2006, I volunteered as a Face of Mental Illness Awareness Week, a Canada wide anti-stigma public service campaign organized—in part—by the Canadian Psychiatric Association [1]. I voluntarily chose to do this public service to fight against the stigma of mental illness. This stigma agai...

Reflections from ACC 2015

Insights from inside

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Schizophrenia from the inside

Severe mental disorders affecting young people have been recognised since the earliest times, but only over the past century have they been closely studied. This, in turn, has led to a much better understanding of the abnormal psychological processes involved and also to a gradual sorting out of these illnesses into different categories of which perhaps the most tragic has been called schizophr...

Playing from the inside: Holistic villages as a paradigm

In 1958, Corbu advocated a ‘new architecture’ for a ‘new man’. The omnipresence of the architect creating spaces to model a society led to architects building many sins. After that the influence of architecture in the lives of its inhabitants began to be a subject ignored. A lot of contemporary architecture limited itself to the production of design or service to capital of the day. In 1...