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By Micheal Cornwall, Ph.D., posted in Mad in America

He will be featured this Saturday, December 8th, (11amPT/2pmET) on MindFreedom Radio with the theme:  “If madness isn’t what psychiatry says it is, then WHAT IS IT?” Hope you can join the conversation!!
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In my last three blogs I posed the question- “If madness isn’t what psychiatry says it is, then what is it?” Now I’m asking- “If madness isn’t what psychiatry says it is, then how should we respond to madness?’

Here are some thoughts that I wanted to share with you about how to effectively serve your clients, friends and loved ones who are having an experience of madness. These ideas may also be of help in doing self-care if you are entering or traversing a madness process yourself.

They are followed by my quite personal and un-orthodox neo-Jungian formulation of madness. That formulation and these practical suggestions are mainly gleaned from my…