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November 3rd, 2015 – “We’re getting close to labeling childhood as a mental disorder.”
Psychiatrist and Creativity Coach, Dr. Eric Maisel, gives us a much closer look at the state of mental health and its effect on all of us, especially children.
In this interview, we see how normal childhood behaviors and normal human experiences are being called symptoms of a mental disorder.
As a culture, we need to see the difference between medicine and a chemical with an effect.
As it stands, our language and our chronic labeling are doing us all a huge disservice.
Eric goes on to speak of the changes he’d like to see, including the training of mental health practitioners.
These practitioners would care deeply about a patient’s circumstances.
Instead of chemicals and diagnosis, life purpose, meaning, and meaning-making opportunities would be on the table and part of the discussion.
Formal Bio:
Dr. Eric Maisel has written more than 40 books on a wide variety of subjects. His latest book is The Future of Mental Health: Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm and describes a future of mental health movement that he is spearheading.
His interests include creativity, meaning, life purpose, and mental health. He works with clients as a creativity coach, trains creativity coaches, and provides core trainings for the Creativity Coaching Association. He also offers writing workshops around the world in places like London, Paris, Prague, Rome, New York and San Francisco and at workshop centers like Esalen, Kripalu and Omega.
He is an advocate for a changed and revitalized view of mental health services, one that does away with our current mental disorder naming system, and is writing the Rethinking Mental Health blog for Psychology Today.
Some of his books in this area include Rethinking Depression, The Van Gogh Blues, Brainstorm, and his latest, The Future of Mental Health.
In it, he describes what he conceives as the helper of the future, the human experience specialist. You can learn more about this by taking his Human Experience Specialist class.
Eric is an advocate for a global paradigm shift from seeking meaning to making meaning. He’s written about value-based meaning-making in many of his books, including in his latest, Life Purpose Boot Camp.
Listen to “Mental Health and Creative Purpose with Eric Maisel 11/03/15” on Spreaker.
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