Words on the Wall: A Fundraiser for Plaques for the 19th Century Patient-Built Wall

Help us put Words on the Wall

The Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto (PSAT) is giving out bricks to serve as the basis for a work of art.  Artists and groups are welcome to use the medium of their choice. Works will be displayed and sold as part of a silent auction to help raise funds for historic plaques to commemorate the history of the patient-built wall at the Queen Street Site of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Words on the Wall will be held on April 21, 2010 at the Gladstone Hotel in conjunction with This is Not a Reading Series. There will be a wall tour led by historian Geoffrey Reaume, followed by a relaunch of the 2 nd  edition of his book, Remembrance of Patients Past (University of Toronto Press). We will end the evening with a silent auction of the bricks donated by artists.

To view or download a pdf flyer, click here.
To request a brick or for more information, please email psychsurvivorarchives [at] gmail.com or phone 416-661-9975 or 416-809-1013.
For more information about PSAT visit www.psychiatricsurvivorarchives.com
For more information about This Is Not A Reading Series visit www.tinars

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: APRIL 7, 2010

Ryan Howes, in his blog In Therapy: A User’s Guide to Psychotherapy, has been posting The Ten Coolest Therapy Interventions. This week the final entry, Cool Intervention #1: Transference Interpretation, brings Dr. Glen O. Gabbard to the table to answer Ryan Howes’ questions:

1. When would a clinician use transference interpretation?

2. What does it look like?

3. How does it help the client?

4. In your opinion, what makes transference interpretation a cool intervention?

The Mental Health and Pinewood Centre Program of Lakeridge Health is hosting a one-day workshop:

The Hungry Ghost: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Addiction: From Heroin to Workaholism

Presenter: Gabor Maté M.D.

DATE: Friday May 28, 2010

TIME: Registration 8:30am, 9:00am to 4:00pm

LOCATION: Holiday Inn Oshawa, 1011 Bloor Street East, Oshawa ON

REGISTRATION FEE: $ 195.00

Includes a copy of Dr. Maté book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction.

Continental Breakfast and Lunch will be provided

CACCF Core CEU Credit Hours: 5.5

INTENDED AUDIENCE: This workshop will be of interest to Mental Health and Addictions Counsellors, Social Workers, Nurses, Community Health Professionals, Educators, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, and Physicians.

PRESENTER:. Gabor Maté M.D. is a physician, author, seminar leader and public speaker. He is a former medical columnist for The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail. His four books, all Canadian bestsellers, range in topic from Attention Deficit Disorder (Scattered Minds), on which he has a unique perspective; to the mind/body unity and the influence of stress in health and illness (When The Body Says No); to the disastrous loss of parental influence in today’s culture (Hold On To Your Kids). The most recently published, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction has been a #1 national bestseller and has been awarded the Hubert Evans prize for literary non-fiction. His work has been translated in sixteen languages, on five continents. For twenty years, Dr. Maté had a family practice, and for seven years was Medical Coordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital. For eleven years he has worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged by severe drug addiction, mental illness and HIV. He has lectured at the University of California (Berkeley and San Francisco,) at Alabama State University, at McGill University, at Washington State University and has addressed many groups of physicians and health care providers, educators, psychologists, therapists, parents and other members of the lay public. In 2009, he was an invited presenter for the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in Ottawa.

In 2009, Dr. Maté was honored with an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Simon Fraser University. His latest book, to be published in 2010, will be The Bully Syndrome: A New Look at a Contemporary Malaise, co-written with developmental psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld.

www.drgabormate.com

PURPOSE: In his most recent bestselling book, In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, he shows that addictions do not represent a discrete set of medical disorders. Rather, they reflect the extreme end of a continuum of addiction, mostly hidden, that runs throughout our society. In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts draws on cutting-edge science to illuminate where and how addictions originate and what they have in common.

Contrary to what is often claimed, the source of addictions is not to be found in genes, but in the early childhood environment where the neurobiology of the brain’s reward pathways develops and the where the emotional patterns that lead to addiction are wired into the unconscious. Stress, both then and later in life, creates the predisposition for addictions, whether to drugs, alcohol, nicotine, or to behavioural addictions such as shopping, sex, or gambling.

Helping the addicted individual requires that we appreciate the function of the addiction in his or her life. More than a disease, the addiction is a response to a distressing life history and life situation. Once we recognize the roots of addiction and the void it strives (in vain) to fill, we can develop a compassionate approach toward the addicted individual, one that stands the best chance of restoring him or her to wholeness and health.

AGENDA: Among the content areas to be explored are the following:

• What is the source of addictions?
• What happens chemically and physiologically in the brains of people with substance dependency or behaviour addiction?
• The false “blessings” of addiction as experienced by the addicted individual;
• The development of the addiction mind: how early childhood experiences shape the brain;
• The social basis of addiction in economic, cultural and political dislocation and disempowerment;
• How much choice does the addicted individual really have, and how much responsibility?
• Developing a therapeutic relationship in which healing is possible;
• How to encourage the addicted individual to take responsibility;
• The prevention of addiction, both in adolescence and before

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INNER CITY BOOKS is proud to add TWO NEW TITLES to its substantial, acclaimed canon
of Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts:

127. VALLEY OF DIAMONDS: Adventures in Number and Time
with Marie-Louise von Franz
J. Gary Sparks (Indianapolis)
ISBN 978-1-894574-28-0.  192 pages.  Sewn. Index. 20 illustrations. Also an eBook. $30/£20

During a serious illness in his sixties, C. G. Jung dreamed that he was in a valley of diamonds and could fill his pockets with them. He understood the diamonds to refer to all he had yet to say about the human psyche. But he realized that he could only show a fraction of what he had in his pockets. He lived on to write his major works, but one “diamond” left virtually untouched was the relationship between inner and outer, the mysterious interface between mind and matter. He believed the key to this conundrum lay in investigating the concept of numbers as archetypes of the unconscious, but he lacked the energy for it.
This was the great task Jung bequeathed to his long-standing colleague, Marie-Louise von Franz, who heartily took it on in her prodigious tome, Number and Time (1974), which thoughtfully explores the space-time continuum, the psychological significance of the first four integers, 1-4, and parallel developments in the world of physics. Her enquiry is a difficult book, but seminal in laying the groundwork for a new worldview based on numbers as they manifest in dreams, everyday life, science and synchronistic events.

J. Gary Sparks’ masterful explication of Number and Time clarifies von Franz’s work and makes more accessible to all readers one of the proudly-faceted jewels Jung left as his legacy to genuine healing.

Valley of Diamonds is a fitting sequel to this author’s previous book, At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual Testament (Inner City Books, 2007).

J. Gary Sparks, B.Sc., M.Div., M.A., is a graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA; the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA; and the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He is co-editor of Edward F. Edinger’s Science of the Soul (Inner City Books, 2002) and Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets (Inner City Books, 2000).

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128. ACROBATS OF THE GODS: Dance and Transformation
Joan Dexter Blackmer (1931-2006)  (New Printing)
ISBN 978-0-919123-38-0.  128 pages.  Sewn. Index. 40 illustrations. Also an eBook. $25/£15

Relating the rigors of dance to the travels of the alchemical opus, the author, herself a former Martha Graham dancer, allows us to experience the process that for many gives birth to an enhanced swareness of the Self. A timely reminder of the interaction between body and soul.

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