Finding Meaning and a Path to Recovery

When people hear distressing voices or become lost in an altered sense of reality, it’s easy to feel helpless, especially if drugs don’t work very well or don’t feel acceptable. But new, practical methods are emerging that help people to make sense of these experiences, and to regain control of their lives.

Ron Unger, LCSW

Ron Unger, LCSW will introduce some of these approaches, drawing from his work as a therapist specializing in CBT for Psychosis and as a facilitator of Hearing Voices groups.

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)
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FREE! (Donations Welcome $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com

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Rethinking Love

Learning from each other’s experiences with:

• Valentine’s Day?!
• Honoring Loneliness
• Loving someone in crisis
• Love

Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)
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FREE! (Donations Welcome $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com

Photo credit: Louise Docker from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rethinking Psychiatry presents a screening of four TEDx talks by Emily Anhalt, Kathleen Nadeau, Salif Mahamane and Angela Aquirre on the subject of ADHD.  We will follow each film with a group discussion.  Come join us!

Wednesday, November 1st, 2017,   7 – 9 PM
Unite Oregon
700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR
(across from PCC Cascade Campus)
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FREE!  (Donations Welcome $0 – $20 suggested)
For questions, contact RethinkingPsychiatry@gmail.com

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HEALING VOICES

Join us Wednesday, April 5, 2017 for a screening of the movie, HEALING VOICES.

HEALING VOICES is a new feature-length documentary which explores the experiences commonly labeled as “psychosis” or “mental illness” through the real-life stories of individuals working to overcome extreme mental states, and integrate these experiences into their lives in meaningful ways.

The film follows three subjects – Oryx, Jen, and Dan – over a period of nearly five years and features interviews with many notable personalities, including: Robert Whitaker, Dr. Bruce Levine, Will Hall,  Dr. Marius Romme, and others, on the history of psychiatry and the rise of the “medical model” of mental health treatment.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017,  7-9 PM
Unite Oregon, 700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR

Join us for our December potluck & planning meeting.  Following the success of our November meeting, we will continue planning our activities for 2017.

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Note: Rethinking Psychiatry monthly meetings are now on the 1st Wednesday of each month.

Wednesday, December 7,  7-9 pm
Unite Oregon, 700 N. Killingsworth St.,  Portland, Oregon

Join us this coming Wednesday for a potluck and our November meeting!

• Harvesting Ideas for the Upcoming Year
• Putting by community Talents & Efforts
• Sharing the Bounty of What We Create Together

Wednesday, November 16,  7-9 pm
Unite Oregon, 700 N. Killingsworth St.,  Portland, Oregon

Rethinking Psychiatry Presents

Please join us as Rethinking Psychiatry presents Adrian Bernard, co-founder of Second Story Peer Respite House, for an evening of connection through Madness.

Adrian Bernard

“Second Story (Santa Cruz, CA) offers people a new way to view themselves.  No longer as mentally ill patients, rather, humans empowered by the diversity of their experiences.”

• What is a peer respite house?
• What does it take to start one?
• What does it take to keep it going?

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 7-9 PM
Unite Oregon, 700 N. Killingsworth St., Portland Oregon