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A person suffering from psychological or behavioral problems has been emotionally wounded or violated.
It is possible to hide emotional wounds through drugs, electrical shock and other "technologies".
True healing, however, comes from restoring and renewing the things that define and reflect our
humanity. Things like intimacy, community, art, music, spirituality and play. We address all
these dimensions that make us fully human: emotional, psychological, physical, social and
spiritual. This is where healing and self empowerment truly begins....
We are a community-based psychological treatment center offering a broad range of
psychological services including a comprehensive three hour per day and five hour
per day enhanced group treatment program, featuring traditional and innovative individual
and group therapies. Our specialized program offers an alternative to de-humanizing and
coercive institutions that are ineffective in eliminating the problems over the lifespan.
Treatment programs and services are designed to positively impact the full spectrum of
emotional, psychological, physical, social and spiritual dimensions that make us fully human.
Our treatment facility is one of only a few of its kind in the world that is dedicated to
and specializes in treatment of psychological, emotional and behavioral problems without
the use of psychiatric drugs. Associated Psychological Health Services is also one
of the only treatment centers supporting a patients choice to lower and eliminate
their use of and or need for drugs.
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 A person suffering from psychological or behavioral problems has been emotionally wounded or violated. It is possible to hide emotional wounds through drugs, electrical shock and other "technologies". True healing, however, comes from restoring and renewing the things that define and reflect our humanity. Things like intimacy, community, art, music, spirituality and play. We address all these dimensions that make us fully human: emotional, psychological, physical, social and spiritual. .... (click here to continue reading) |
 First, let me start out by stating that I am not anti-drugs, nor anti-CBT or anti-R.E.B.T. Everyday we take drugs such as caffeine (e.g. coffee or soda throughout the day-perk to us up) and depressants (e.g. wine at dinner to sooth and clam us down from our hectic day.) However, no one pretends or informs us that we have a caffeine or dopamine deficiency when we are groggy in the morning or because the drug changes our behavior and feelings. No one tells us we have a genetic chemical imbalance because.... (click here to continue reading) |
| When trying to withdraw
from many psychiatric drugs, patients
can develop serious and even
life-threatening emotional and physical
reactions. In short, it is dangerous
not only to
start
taking psychiatric drugs, but also can
be hazardous to stop taking them.
Therefore, withdrawal from psychiatric
drugs should be done under clinical
supervision. Principles of drug
withdrawal are discussed in
Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and
Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric
Medications , by Peter R.
Breggin, MD and David Cohen, PhD; Coming
Off Psychiatric Drugs by Peter Lehmann;
and The Anti-depressant Solution: A
Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming
Anti-Depressant Withdrawal, Dependance,
and "Addiction", by Joseph Glenmullen,
M.D. |
| Information contained herein is
designed to support, not replace, the
therapeutic relationship between doctor
and patient. All information is kept
in strict confidence, and no
information, written or verbal is given
out to any party what so ever without
explicit written permission by our
clients and patients.
We are a private corporation, and
have no financial ties or funding
resources other than from our therapists
donations and patient income.
For website problems please contact
Dr. Watson at
tobywatson@abcmedsfree.com
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15, 2008
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