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#HistoryBeyondTrauma "It could be said that speaking to oneself is where literature begins" [18 April 2018]
Tweeting about History Beyond Trauma late evening 16Apr16 from Ch2.3:
#HistoryBeyondTrauma 2.3 Showing what cannot be said; 2.3.1 The Festival of the Mad Rises from the Ashes— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) April 16, 2018
"the dimension of the symbolic"
"How much easier life would seem if we could mechanically suppress diseases, insanities, anxieties and mood swings ..."
"Wanting to say" pic.twitter.com/3pNCFIqIzj
"For the Love of my Lizzie I'm Losing my Head"— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) April 16, 2018
"At time of persecution, the madness of 'talking to yourself when no one hears you' [Wittgenstein] has always sought refuge in literature, oral or written" https://t.co/IlUNrsWnqB
#HistoryBeyondTrauma "the court fools ... were paid to show one and all, including the king, what cannot be said. Risks were involved. " pic.twitter.com/sHOUNlitHc— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) April 16, 2018
"It could be said that speaking to oneself is where literature begins" pic.twitter.com/idbiRacyDm— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) April 16, 2018
"All comedians heirs of the jongleurs, know that they are balancing on the edge of catastrophe and tears. Likewise, patients in a manic state show ... the death zone that no one wants to see."— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) April 16, 2018
"It is in the name of the father that we must recognize ... pic.twitter.com/FWBGXydYxF
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"the psychoanalysis of the psychosis" #HistoryBeyondTrauma "a battle to be sustained" [7 January 2018]
Tweeting about History Beyond Trauma Chapter 4.1.3 The Ghost Road on 6 January 2018 before midnight:



#HistoryBeyondTrauma 4.1.3 The Ghost Road [title of third book in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy]https://t.co/aLcI1kbRbA pic.twitter.com/Mif6yObSqk— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
just requested Pat Barker's book The Regeneration Trilogy from East Fife Mobile @onfifelibraries 😀 https://t.co/5LxUSclzlQ— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
"the psychoanalysis of the psychosis" war references #WilliamRivers anthropologist, his work in funeral rites in the Solomon Islands helped him face ghosts haunting nights in Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh WW1 #shellshockhttps://t.co/BrmDSql0ox pic.twitter.com/5RPxQAiDAt— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
"Psychotherapeutic experience on the battlefield led to a renewal of the paradigm of psychoanalysis itself ..." p103 #HistoryBeyondTrauma "psychic casualties" https://t.co/PUnC7KvntR— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
"the symptom is always a message addressed to the other" p103 "On the Road"— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
"everything is transference" a fundamental principle, forgotten during peace years, rediscovered when disaster returned;
Absalom, Absalom! #WilliamFaulkner "great specialist in human madness" pic.twitter.com/E9H53mWeYL
#HistoryBeyondTrauma #Schizophrenia "extremely intense and sensitive transference reactions" not about relationship with therapist #FrommReichmann [1948 paper on treatment of Schizophrenics https://t.co/o1cyVAtaZn pic.twitter.com/jmjQVjMke9— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
psychoanalysis of the psychosis: a battle to be sustained on multiple fronts; mass treatments; war itself; the patient/therapist relationship, no rose garden promised 😁🎧🎸https://t.co/Yin8r6DXJg pic.twitter.com/y7Njl2hpK0— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
favourite song back in the day 💃 https://t.co/JTsOXS7TkD— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
whereas in #StayingWellAfterPsychosis p84 Service Model there's mention of a treatment protocol; ruptures in therapeutic alliance caused by "desynchronous approaches to recovery, relapse detection and prevention"— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
[desynchronous definition: Lack of synchrony, as in brain waves] pic.twitter.com/BPVvm9fJIu
comparing psychoanalytic psychotherapy to cognitive interpersonal approaches they seems poles apart @andygumley #MatthiasSchwannauer https://t.co/QTUgYIjNPl— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
I think the difference between psychosis as a journey, an escape, a transition, and psychosis as a mental disorder; IME psychosis was transitional, all 4 times; it wasn't about relapse, rather a response to life trauma; then I recovered from psychiatric treatment x3; journeyed x1 https://t.co/TDU9P4BeyK— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
I much preferred avoiding psychiatric hospital coercive drug treatment hence a vision of Safe Houses for Psychosis with psychoanalytic type help rather than treatment protocol; structured activities & drugs on offer, minimally as required, tapering always on the agenda https://t.co/Sg6pyKRpcM— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
I will have to explore, research to find out if anyone in the UK is doing this type of thing already, apart from the services I'm already aware of; I think in Scotland we need national funding for safe house alternatives, managed locally; different setups, not formulaic https://t.co/hRzL6XUidj— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 6, 2018
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#HistoryBeyondTrauma 6.1.1 The Mad Tea Party 4Jan18 [4 January 2018]
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blog page Staying Well After Psychosis |
Studying Chapter 6 of History Beyond Trauma, 6.1.1 and revisiting the Therapeutic Relationship in Chapter 4 of Staying Well After Psychosis:
#HistoryBeyondTrauma Ch6.1.1 The Mad Tea Party;— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 4, 2018
"It is with guides like these that we approach the loops, twists, and deadends of time to which our patients lead us."
"Time that does not pass is disruptive ..." Alice & the Hatter teach us pic.twitter.com/DdC7YhPCVp
"Little by little we're building a house of time.— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 4, 2018
Take your time."
".. stammerings of history .."
".. bizarre intersections .."#transference #madness pic.twitter.com/F7RqRykYXE
time loops or untimely moments https://t.co/BYcrtoLdiO— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 4, 2018
Arendt 1951 #HistoryBeyondTrauma pic.twitter.com/6AzFxJ7pW6— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 4, 2018
#StayingWellAfterPsychosis Ch4 p76 Therapeutic Relationship— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 4, 2018
"( ... transference and counter-transference) are embraced within therapy#psychdynamic
(don't agree with "containing" aspect or "corrective" p77, this is misguided & interfering) pic.twitter.com/E7RhfKFETD
helping people through psychosis is about helping them to work through it, not suspended animation, which is what psychiatric drugs do, IME of them; they stop the psychosis journey, hinder personal development/insight; 2015 psychosis far better without antipsychotics https://t.co/SE4FXh8ADH— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 4, 2018
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The Horrified Other: History Beyond Trauma; Davoine & Gaudillière [25 July 2017]
The Horrified Other #HistoryBeyondTrauma #FrancoiseDavoine— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) July 25, 2017
"a threshold that must be crossed in order to make contact ..." #Arendt pic.twitter.com/TnDsyPrhE3
"neutrality not only is contrary to ethics but also destroys all scientific relevance" https://t.co/NA8FGAVAdC— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) July 25, 2017
Wittgenstein: "he found it absolutely necessary to speak in the first person .... all he can do is come forth as a person saying "I" .." https://t.co/3yNR3B24t5— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) July 25, 2017
#HistoryBeyondTrauma— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) July 25, 2017
"When it comes to drastic human experiences, rage and apathy are also language games" p59 lines 6/7 pic.twitter.com/1VaUhjva30
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The Memory of Freedom #HistoryBeyondTrauma p134 La Boetie: neglecting tyrant; p136 field of combat & risk pic.twitter.com/EMlVYMA9cu— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) February 1, 2017
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#HistoryBeyondTrauma "Fear of a crisis can lead to the killing of speech" [5 February 2017]
p136 #HistoryBeyondTrauma "Fear of a crisis can lead to the killing of speech" Barker 1992 pic.twitter.com/m3nDJVFbzV— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) February 2, 2017
Our patients have taught us the opposite #HistoryBeyondTrauma #Davoine #Gaudilliere pic.twitter.com/IRrsy5XXRe— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) February 2, 2017
Patient & analyst find themselves on same battlefront #HistoryBeyondTrauma p139 pic.twitter.com/jkVcFA0GKe— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) February 2, 2017
The Memory of Freedom #HistoryBeyondTrauma p134 La Boetie: neglecting tyrant; p136 field of combat & risk pic.twitter.com/EMlVYMA9cu— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) February 1, 2017
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rejecting diagnosis #HistoryBeyondTrauma the breaking point; aloneness [26 January 2017]
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p131 footnote History Beyond Trauma |
#HistoryBeyondTrauma p129/130 trauma reduces one to an interiority; aloneness; no representation except through horrified other pic.twitter.com/xVmNHIlBdr— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 25, 2017
5.1.4 #Wittgenstein handed out medication but advised patients not to take it #HistoryBeyondTrauma describe their experience in own way pic.twitter.com/afrLyXb2X3— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 25, 2017
#HistoryBeyondTrauma danger of psychic murder committed by diagnosis pic.twitter.com/JgQGT98SW7— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 25, 2017
tyranny of diagnostic labels #HistoryBeyondTrauma pic.twitter.com/jJcPVtmYP6— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 25, 2017
philia: friendship #HistoryBeyondTrauma "parce que c'etait lui, parce que c'etait moi, " pic.twitter.com/wSfz3iuJQ8— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 25, 2017
History Beyond Trauma: Footnote p131.12: "After 100 days of continuous combat, it appears that almost everyone becomes a casualty ... It has been recognised that there is a finite quantity of courage and bravery" (Kentsmith 1986, p93)
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pons asinorum: donkey bridge; facing the Real Other #HistoryBeyondTrauma [22 January 2017]
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Bus to Glenrothes for shopping, reading History Beyond Trauma, there and back, following on from First Crisis, Nth Crisis; (helper reduced to) A Minor Character, 20 January 2017, on bus to Dundee.
From readings today and Friday, what struck me again were the feelings of homecoming regarding the psychoanalytic engagement, working with mad people, in psychosis. It makes sense.
6.2.1 Joseph's story pic.twitter.com/orjbTfj1kU— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 22, 2017
6.2 A Tme that does not Pass #HistoryBeyondTrauma the Thing/das Ding #Lacan 172 pic.twitter.com/B2KT6vchEX— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 22, 2017
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#HistoryBeyondTrauma p178 the temptation: causalist explanation "It's a relapse .. " fyi @andygumley 😆 pic.twitter.com/cNQqsACll1— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 22, 2017
"He is stuck in the pillory" (analyst/therapist) @andygumley #HistoryBeyondTrauma pic.twitter.com/zHDodDkcG3— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 22, 2017
The donkey bridge #HistoryBeyondTrauma of the psychoanalysis of madness pic.twitter.com/MIdNiB2wpE— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 22, 2017
a lang spoon #HistoryBeyondTrauma pic.twitter.com/FCls0gLyFl— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 22, 2017
Jacques' story 6.3.1 #HistoryBeyondTrauma Satori: illumination & awakening pic.twitter.com/W3jC8QUSPh— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 22, 2017
#HistoryBeyondTrauma a relationship of mutual non-interference; "potential simultaneity" #Schrodinger pic.twitter.com/s0eHiE6GwV— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 22, 2017
Time cannot be entered without a crisis #HistoryBeyondTrauma pic.twitter.com/NC9ObZWVX1— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 22, 2017
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#HistoryBeyondTrauma First Crisis, Nth Crisis; (helper reduced to) A Minor Character [20 January 2017]

"It is better to conceive of all crises of madness as beginnings" p168
"The crises of the patient, which are always the first crises, are answered by the analyst's critical moments, which are, each time, initial moments." p172
"Interpretations by themselves do not determine meaning" Wittengenstein, footnote 8. p170
gym & swim again this morning after Tesco home food shopping delivery; will take #HistoryBeyondTrauma book: first crisis nth crisis p167 pic.twitter.com/dGlZXrxohs— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
#HistoryBeyondTrauma on bus 😊 p167 pic.twitter.com/MaSJLeZuCZ— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
Subscript #HistoryBeyondTrauma p167/8 inflicting principle of causality in a catastrophic field #irrelevant pic.twitter.com/bDge3Ftoy9— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
"The principle of immediacy ..." #HistoryBeyondTrauma ie acting on cause doesn't make sense when it comes to madness #FrancoiseDavoine— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
illusion of mastering psychosis by Early Intervention #HistoryBeyondTrauma #FrancoiseDavoine fyi @PatMcGorry @alisonryung pic.twitter.com/VBUxPXH7Cy— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
"It is better to conceive of all crises of madness as beginnings"@PatMcGorry @alisonryung #HistoryBeyondTrauma pic.twitter.com/4oZOEv3PAN— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
Now blocked by Dr Alison Yung @PatMcGorry which perfectly demonstrates problem with #EIP— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
Youth: not of one's arteries but of potential beginning; Yes! Surprise. Awakening. Astonishment. Amazement. #HistoryBeyondTrauma pic.twitter.com/0EQHKlRRMX— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
Gilda p169 #HistoryBeyondTrauma pic.twitter.com/puxdvthnpv— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
Gilda was looking for someone who could sustain the shock of her experience #HistoryBeyondTrauma #psychosis— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
yes, that's the key pic.twitter.com/nCDBCgLaXH
#HistoryBeyondTrauma A Minor Character: the analyst; "beyond the professional mask" #FrancoiseDavoine pic.twitter.com/uuypgCxnKF— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
p170 #HistoryBeyondTrauma #Bion #Artaud in footnotes; double role of the mind https://t.co/cSu29vDtDB pic.twitter.com/a0T4iY9cPH— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
#HistoryBeyondTrauma "a language game" between patient & therapist/analyst pic.twitter.com/yJH8yzu4g1— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
#HistoryBeyondTrauma analysts talk of their beginnings; of first patient to make them tip over into story of madness; initial moments pic.twitter.com/FSTzeHkO4V— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
#HistoryBeyondTrauma a superb book; describing #psychosis or madness just as it is; common to all; the best helper being mad themselves— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) January 20, 2017
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"Must we really try to subdue this hypersensitivity?" #FrancoiseDavoine 'History Beyond Trauma' [7 September 2016]
I first read 'History Beyond Trauma' by Parisian psychoanalysts Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière in around 2011 (borrowing a copy from St Andrews University) when hearing via the Irish Critical Voices Network about the launch of Mere Folle/Mad Mother Movie in Goldsmiths College, London, based on their work, on 19 February 2011.
My son Daniel and I travelled down to London to meet them and I was keen to invite Davoine and her husband to Fife to speak. However in Feb11 we also travelled to Ireland, Athlone, to hear Robert Whitaker lecture on his book 'Anatomy of an Epidemic', arranging for him to visit Scotland and Fife in November 2011. Both of these Feb11 trips were self funded.
Bob's lecture was organised under the auspices of Peer Support Fife which I ran voluntarily, having set it up in January 2008. Fifers Prof Phil Barker and his wife Poppy Buchanan-Barker offered to open and close the lecture in Elmwood College, Cupar.
PS Fife ran out of funding in 2011 and by 2012 the website became an archived resource, and I became a mental health writer, activist and human rights campaigner. Caring and advocating for my son after the psychiatric abuse of the locked seclusion room, February 2012, in the IPCU Stratheden Hospital, NHS Fife. Winning an Ombudsman case at the end of September 2014 and a brief written apology from the Fife Health Board in the October, admitting no liability.
Light reading 🌞🤓🎶 leaving Cupar heading for #VOXScotland AGM & Conference Glasgow to speak out & have a Voice 🎤🎷🐑 pic.twitter.com/ud1i6ly6zD— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) September 5, 2016
#HistoryBeyondTrauma a-letheia - non-forgetting, the very name of truth. "sometimes a fit of madness tells us more" pic.twitter.com/iVAxqRvptK— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) September 5, 2016
Wittgenstein "jumping from one topic to another .... over a wide field of thought, criss -cross in every direction" #HistoryBeyondTrauma— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) September 5, 2016
#HistoryBeyondTrauma "Must we really try to subdue this hypersensitivity?" #madness pic.twitter.com/nChE9NsOoh— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) September 6, 2016
#HistoryBeyondTrauma #FrancoiseDavoine two war veterans speak: #Wittgenstein & #Descartes pic.twitter.com/pzgImGwGhV— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) September 6, 2016
#HistoryBeyondTrauma "the connection between madness and trauma is not a causal one" #Davoine #Gaudilliere pic.twitter.com/BdINCYZBOU— Chrys Muirhead (@ChrysMuirhead) September 6, 2016
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Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, public lecture Cupar, Fife, Scotland, 19 November 2011 from Chrys Muirhead on Vimeo.
"According to conventional histories of psychiatry, the arrival of Thorazine in asylum medicine in 1955 kicked off a 'psychopharmacological revolution' Yet, since 1955, the disability rate due to mental illness in the United States has risen more than six-fold. Moreover, this epidemic of disabling mental illness has accelerated since 1987, when Prozac - the first of the "second-generation" drugs - arrived on the market. This increase in disability is also being seen in other countries that have embraced the use of psychiatric drugs: Canada, UK, Ireland, Iceland, Australia and New Zealand, among others. A review of the long-term outcomes literature for psychiatric medications reveals why this is so. The 'medical model' paradigm of care, which emphasises continual use of psychiatric medications, is a failed paradigm, and needs to be dramatically re-thought.": Robert Whitaker
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