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Showing posts with label ben bamber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ben bamber. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Friday, 23 September 2011
Vast and Gruesome
Hi all - I have had a fourth attempt at publishing a book The Vast and Gruesome Clutch of Our Law, which is now available at: www.amazon.com. Please buy this book. It is good.
Synopsis:
The world is in the grip of a large catastrophe. Edward lives in a small community which has barely survived the long cruel winter. But when a stranger called Dean arrives in town hope returns and he seems to have a magical effect on them. But Dean is being tracked by a large foreign military power and the town is in big trouble for giving him shelter.
Reviews:
"The book is intriguing. I found it overwhelming. I found myself unwilling to let the book go until I had finished it. I would definitely pick up the sequel if I were to come across it."
"I was genuinely interested in where this tale was heading and there are some fine ideas in here."
"Its post-apocalypse setting and ambience stimulated an affectionate nostalgia" – Reviews from the book (2005).
“It had me absolutely enthralled from the moment I picked it up.” - C Toohill (2010)
Synopsis:
The world is in the grip of a large catastrophe. Edward lives in a small community which has barely survived the long cruel winter. But when a stranger called Dean arrives in town hope returns and he seems to have a magical effect on them. But Dean is being tracked by a large foreign military power and the town is in big trouble for giving him shelter.
Reviews:
"The book is intriguing. I found it overwhelming. I found myself unwilling to let the book go until I had finished it. I would definitely pick up the sequel if I were to come across it."
"I was genuinely interested in where this tale was heading and there are some fine ideas in here."
"Its post-apocalypse setting and ambience stimulated an affectionate nostalgia" – Reviews from the book (2005).
“It had me absolutely enthralled from the moment I picked it up.” - C Toohill (2010)
Friday, 8 July 2011
The Green M: The Battle for Freedom and Justice in Psychiatry
If you're visiting this site as the result of a letter I've sent to you, please do pick up my book which goes into a lot more detail. It is an ebook only and really pushes the boundaries of psychiatry and asks the professionals to get their act together. The list of stuff that needs to change is so long and the road to freedom and justice isn't blocked by anything other than fear: fear of the mentally ill, that in reality isn't justified...
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/67050
Thanks.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/67050
Thanks.
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Welcome to the Battle.
Psychiatry is young. It isn't much of science unless it hooks up with neurology, and it is still abusing the rights and freedoms of the mentally ill on a daily basis. This blog will cover some aspects of my fight to have the mental health law reviewed, and to have treatment changed, to reflect what we now know, or more realistically what we don't know about the dopamine theory of illness.
Firstly I believe that dopamine maybe the problem, but that the blocking of dopamine, may not be the answer. The blocking of dopamine has only a short term benefit and in the long term stifles the healing process.
Secondly I believe that the internment without trial and forced treatment of mentally ill people is illegal and unnecessary in most cases. The key document that supports this view can be found on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights page, written by the UN Commissioner for Human Rights.
I will not be posting everything that happens in this battle, because I have to use my own case to push for these changes. Some of it is private. But I have engaged in correspondence with several governmental and non-governmental agencies and organisations already on this issue and I have so far not really got the answers I was seeking. But there have been some surprises along the way, of which I will keep you posted.
Please do download and read my book The Green 'M': The Battle for Freedom and Justice in Psychiatry, as this is the document that I will be using as a keystone, around which all the arguments will be put forward. Seeking the balance for freedom, whilst controlling the worst of the illness in its sufferers is a large part of that battle, along with holding back societies tendency to see all mentally ill people as a threat to the safety of the community in which we live and are desperate to take an active part in, but are preventing from doing so, because of other peoples prejudices.
Firstly I believe that dopamine maybe the problem, but that the blocking of dopamine, may not be the answer. The blocking of dopamine has only a short term benefit and in the long term stifles the healing process.
Secondly I believe that the internment without trial and forced treatment of mentally ill people is illegal and unnecessary in most cases. The key document that supports this view can be found on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights page, written by the UN Commissioner for Human Rights.
I will not be posting everything that happens in this battle, because I have to use my own case to push for these changes. Some of it is private. But I have engaged in correspondence with several governmental and non-governmental agencies and organisations already on this issue and I have so far not really got the answers I was seeking. But there have been some surprises along the way, of which I will keep you posted.
Please do download and read my book The Green 'M': The Battle for Freedom and Justice in Psychiatry, as this is the document that I will be using as a keystone, around which all the arguments will be put forward. Seeking the balance for freedom, whilst controlling the worst of the illness in its sufferers is a large part of that battle, along with holding back societies tendency to see all mentally ill people as a threat to the safety of the community in which we live and are desperate to take an active part in, but are preventing from doing so, because of other peoples prejudices.
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