Someone from you The meeting of Western psychology and Buddhist World has recently given a documentary film, Someone beside you . It must be said immediately, it is a beautiful film. The picture is superb, the director takes the time to show landscapes in Europe or America, the mountains, the ocean, a sunset. The presence of nature provides the inspiration and gives the exact counterpoint to the madness that we speak the main characters in this documentary, all of which have experienced serious psychotic episodes. Because then the claustrophobia prevails, terror no longer belong to themselves, hallucinations, morbid, violent acts. What is shocking in this film, very moving in many ways, the floor is finally done with these "sick". Moreover, better than "mental illness" the term folly aside perhaps less of their experience which has nothing medical, but is a genuine existential quest. For madness is portrayed here as the individual and desperate attempt to find a better world.
director Edgar Hagen, inhabited by a very questioning about psychosis, interrogates the human spirit and how to lose as to find it. It pays tribute to the pioneering work of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Edward M. Podvoll (1936-2003), also known as llama Mingyur. It traces the birth of his great project to help psychotic patients, the project Windhorse, by querying for example the first patient, Karen, for making this alternative treatment has been possible. It testifies to his madness and his first meeting with Dr. Podvoll, we also found several times during the documentary, in Boulder, Colorado.
Word to psychosis
hear these firsthand accounts is necessary. Everyone can say of himself, for himself, what is his madness, give reasons - because there is reason in the madness - that led him to slide from normal to fall into these pathways crosses, sometimes without knowing how to return. Out of the delirium, the lucidity of psychiatric patients is striking. They may be due to the camera friend of Hagen, in all their humanity and their distress, their desire to live and share their experiences with a company that often they have abandoned, but that was abandoned. They relive their most decisive crisis, we do know from the inside, with great precision.
One of hallmarks of the movie is love, palpable among individuals who work together, psychotherapy, psychotic, the distinction is often blurred between the two, moreover, in a case community of thought. The challenge is for them all to understand how we avoid the madness if possible, and how it comes out once fell out of health, overwhelmed by his own mind. Understand it is to make humanity itself, find a life together, a passage between people who are generally so cut off from their own experience that they are inaccessible to the other and his word. Here comes love, or compassion, the desire to work together, as two minds can come together beyond the barriers of you and me, health and disease. Besides the major work of Edward Podvoll "Recovering Sanity" was published in French under the title Psychosis and Healing, but the subtitle is The path of compassion .
Naropa, and Trungpa Podvoll
should know that Boulder has been an incredible spiritual and cultural center from the 70s, as Trungpa Rinpoche established his residence and founded a large community, a place for seminars and retreats in the Rockies, but also the first Buddhist-inspired university recognized by the state, Naropa University. Become a student of Trungpa, who teaches him meditation and tantric techniques to work with his own mind, based Podvoll professor of contemplative psychotherapy from Naropa, he directed from 1978 to 1990. In 1981 he developed the Windhorse project (wind horse, lungta), a term derived from the cycle of teachings on the sacred way of the warrior dear to Trungpa, that everyone has a basic goodness in him, above all, bewilderment to madness. For Trungpa, the fundamental health is at work in the life of every human being, as he is human, born of this earth real. This vision decidedly human, far from blaming a drift of the disease Mental guiding Ed Podvoll in his revolutionary approach to the reception and treatment of psychosis.
The project team of the Wind Horse working on three simple principles.
1. "All human beings have a basic mental health. According to Chogyam Trungpa, certainly "mental confusion exists and operates, but are secondary to the underlying health."
2. "Since human beings are not separated from their environment, if you create a healthy environment during their treatment, then patients are more likely to heal." Trungpa again: "The central point is to evoke some kindness, some tenderness, kindness importantly, a sense of touch. When we set up an environment to treat people, this is a situation of global environment. A very disturbed patient or cut the world could not answer on the spot, it will probably long. But if a general sense of benevolence is communicated to him, then maybe a crack will appear in the concrete of neurosis: it will become manageable and we can therefore work with her. "
3. "The cure is to discover and synchronize with its own basic health."
Between health and madness
"Whoever has a mind can also lose. We all know that, otherwise we would not constantly do our best to keep right. If we had no such fear, we would realize that we live permanently on the frontiers of madness. "According to Eric Chapin, psychotherapist at Windhorse project. Oscillate between two poles is our common lot and shows that life is not fixed once and for all one side or the other of an imaginary line which will decide between madness and reason. This is bad news for those who think free, it is quite good for those who suddenly finds himself on the other side of the mirror without reaching identify. Change, transformation, healing is possible. The frontier is moving, and it is one of the effects of the same Buddhist compassion, but to reduce the gap between self and other by carrying out the first opening ( shunyata ).
The modern view of self is one of the stumbling blocks of Western psychology, because it is too influenced by metaphysics, that is to say a very active mind which influences us despite ourselves. Today is regarded as an ego and see her next another or to distinguish the world into subject and object, has become a truism it is very difficult to escape. This is one of the purposes of this section to show an alternative. One finds at work thinking of American psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim: "Much of modern psychology seeks to establish knowledge about the other, too much, in my opinion, that is not offset by a commitment at least as important to self-knowledge. But I think about each other - which is not the same as knowing something about the other - can only function of self-knowledge. " (The empty fortress ). This echoes the words of Podvoll when he warns: "When we cling to the difference between self and other, a huge gap widens. When one identifies as the therapist, it has already lost half of his humanity. We must get off that pedestal and be an ordinary human, what you are, with what you know and what you know. "Psychology is a human science, a practice borrowed from humanity, the treatment of insanity ever reminding us to the humility of the position of those who do not know - but is willing to listen.
Sources
Edward Podvoll, Psychosis and Healing , Temperance
Someone Beside You, the film Edgar Hagen (visit www.temperance.com )
Chögyam Trungpa, The sanity we are born With , Shambhala, 2005
Reprinted Buddhism News, No. 126 July / August 2010
director Edgar Hagen, inhabited by a very questioning about psychosis, interrogates the human spirit and how to lose as to find it. It pays tribute to the pioneering work of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Edward M. Podvoll (1936-2003), also known as llama Mingyur. It traces the birth of his great project to help psychotic patients, the project Windhorse, by querying for example the first patient, Karen, for making this alternative treatment has been possible. It testifies to his madness and his first meeting with Dr. Podvoll, we also found several times during the documentary, in Boulder, Colorado.
Word to psychosis
hear these firsthand accounts is necessary. Everyone can say of himself, for himself, what is his madness, give reasons - because there is reason in the madness - that led him to slide from normal to fall into these pathways crosses, sometimes without knowing how to return. Out of the delirium, the lucidity of psychiatric patients is striking. They may be due to the camera friend of Hagen, in all their humanity and their distress, their desire to live and share their experiences with a company that often they have abandoned, but that was abandoned. They relive their most decisive crisis, we do know from the inside, with great precision.
One of hallmarks of the movie is love, palpable among individuals who work together, psychotherapy, psychotic, the distinction is often blurred between the two, moreover, in a case community of thought. The challenge is for them all to understand how we avoid the madness if possible, and how it comes out once fell out of health, overwhelmed by his own mind. Understand it is to make humanity itself, find a life together, a passage between people who are generally so cut off from their own experience that they are inaccessible to the other and his word. Here comes love, or compassion, the desire to work together, as two minds can come together beyond the barriers of you and me, health and disease. Besides the major work of Edward Podvoll "Recovering Sanity" was published in French under the title Psychosis and Healing, but the subtitle is The path of compassion .
Naropa, and Trungpa Podvoll
should know that Boulder has been an incredible spiritual and cultural center from the 70s, as Trungpa Rinpoche established his residence and founded a large community, a place for seminars and retreats in the Rockies, but also the first Buddhist-inspired university recognized by the state, Naropa University. Become a student of Trungpa, who teaches him meditation and tantric techniques to work with his own mind, based Podvoll professor of contemplative psychotherapy from Naropa, he directed from 1978 to 1990. In 1981 he developed the Windhorse project (wind horse, lungta), a term derived from the cycle of teachings on the sacred way of the warrior dear to Trungpa, that everyone has a basic goodness in him, above all, bewilderment to madness. For Trungpa, the fundamental health is at work in the life of every human being, as he is human, born of this earth real. This vision decidedly human, far from blaming a drift of the disease Mental guiding Ed Podvoll in his revolutionary approach to the reception and treatment of psychosis.
The project team of the Wind Horse working on three simple principles.
1. "All human beings have a basic mental health. According to Chogyam Trungpa, certainly "mental confusion exists and operates, but are secondary to the underlying health."
2. "Since human beings are not separated from their environment, if you create a healthy environment during their treatment, then patients are more likely to heal." Trungpa again: "The central point is to evoke some kindness, some tenderness, kindness importantly, a sense of touch. When we set up an environment to treat people, this is a situation of global environment. A very disturbed patient or cut the world could not answer on the spot, it will probably long. But if a general sense of benevolence is communicated to him, then maybe a crack will appear in the concrete of neurosis: it will become manageable and we can therefore work with her. "
3. "The cure is to discover and synchronize with its own basic health."
Between health and madness
"Whoever has a mind can also lose. We all know that, otherwise we would not constantly do our best to keep right. If we had no such fear, we would realize that we live permanently on the frontiers of madness. "According to Eric Chapin, psychotherapist at Windhorse project. Oscillate between two poles is our common lot and shows that life is not fixed once and for all one side or the other of an imaginary line which will decide between madness and reason. This is bad news for those who think free, it is quite good for those who suddenly finds himself on the other side of the mirror without reaching identify. Change, transformation, healing is possible. The frontier is moving, and it is one of the effects of the same Buddhist compassion, but to reduce the gap between self and other by carrying out the first opening ( shunyata ).
The modern view of self is one of the stumbling blocks of Western psychology, because it is too influenced by metaphysics, that is to say a very active mind which influences us despite ourselves. Today is regarded as an ego and see her next another or to distinguish the world into subject and object, has become a truism it is very difficult to escape. This is one of the purposes of this section to show an alternative. One finds at work thinking of American psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim: "Much of modern psychology seeks to establish knowledge about the other, too much, in my opinion, that is not offset by a commitment at least as important to self-knowledge. But I think about each other - which is not the same as knowing something about the other - can only function of self-knowledge. " (The empty fortress ). This echoes the words of Podvoll when he warns: "When we cling to the difference between self and other, a huge gap widens. When one identifies as the therapist, it has already lost half of his humanity. We must get off that pedestal and be an ordinary human, what you are, with what you know and what you know. "Psychology is a human science, a practice borrowed from humanity, the treatment of insanity ever reminding us to the humility of the position of those who do not know - but is willing to listen.
Sources
Edward Podvoll, Psychosis and Healing , Temperance
Someone Beside You, the film Edgar Hagen (visit www.temperance.com )
Chögyam Trungpa, The sanity we are born With , Shambhala, 2005
Reprinted Buddhism News, No. 126 July / August 2010
