Visual Connection Mapping focuses on the human experience as the primary component.

Every Wednesday morning from 0900 to 11 am I walk through the black steel gates at Our Place Society where homeless people from Victoria City go to sit in the drop-in center and have some food and coffee. I bring my Visual Connection Mapping sign and place it on the table and I take out my clip board and pens and get ready for an individual to sit next to me. Within minutes of my arrival an individual sits down. If the individual wants more information about Visual Connection Mapping I will share that with him or her but most of the time the individuals have participated in Visual Connection Mapping and know what it is and how it operates. Most of the time an individual sits down and while he starts to talk I start to draw lines on a piece of paper.

Visual Connection Mapping started in October 23rd, 2014 and this meeting is to mark the one year anniversary. More than 200 Visual Connection Mapping sessions have been conducted at Our Place Society at the drop in Center. The secret of the Visual Connection Mapping is that it is pro-psychotic. Visual Connection Mapping welcomes psychotic symptoms like paranoia, hallucinations and dissociations. It also welcomes avolition, flat affect and a lack of insight. It actually welcomes psychotic behaviours, criminal histories and personality disorders combined with addictions and other acute health problems in fact it also welcomes sexual deviants and sex offenders to talk about their lives with me. Visual Connection Mapping does not judge another person, it accepts the other person in a whole and unconditional way. Visual Connection Mapping places the individual first and validates, listens and acknowledges their unique point of view without judgement.

Visual Connection Mapping is not a therapy, nor is it any form of counseling it is meta-psychology. The process of Visual Connection Mapping includes tapping into the unconscious nature of the individual and allowing the conversation to roll in any direction what-so-ever. It can include free association, personal histories, observations about the outside world or important life situations encountered. The talker takes the reigns by verbalizing a conversation while the drawer moves her pen across the paper. The dynamic of the talker and the drawer is synchronized. While the person is talking, the listener is drawing and comprehending what is going on. The marks of lines on the paper represent the conversation resembles an in depth level of meta-psychology and psychic components. These psychic components can include emotion transferences, intonation elevations and hand and eye gestures made within the dialogue. The act of drawing lines on the paper represent the human connection between two human beings and it represents the unique dynamic between the two individuals in a way which cannot be replicated. This act of communication highlights humanity to its utmost heights because it illuminated the potential existentialism in the soul of the individual. This form of communicating empowers the individual’s unique character and this acceptance and validation of existence contributes both to the individual’s sense of self and to their own unique self-respect. Visual Connection Mapping focuses 100% on the individual. Each session is original. Sometimes an individual will sit down for a conversation every Wednesday morning and sometimes the individual will sit down, spill his heart out and then feel better and never return again. The drawings locks in the conversation which ensures the confidentiality of the dialogue.  At the same time all dialogues are down in the drop-in center versus in a little office room. The idea about being in the drop in center is to create an alliance with not just the individual sitting down to talk but also with others within earshot of the conversation. The act of sharing the communication and being visible to other’s creates a rapport and a trust within the Our Place Society community. Visual Connection Mapping is a communication Model – versus an art idea. Visual Connection Mapping is not art, it is a communication and the drawings are communication drawings. They reflect truth, honesty and the building of an alliance – one based on trust and safety. Visual Connection Mapping and the drawings are a representation of the homeless community in Victoria City and it is the communication device which listened to and encoded their unique experiences not in verbal concrete words but in abstract lines. Visual Connection Mapping represents the voices of the most vulnerable, most marginalized and the individuals with the most disparities. The drawings that represent this group of individuals may bring an audience in the general community to an absolute confusion and perhaps to a disgust at the seemingly unstructured movements of lines but to the trained art historian or medical practitioner these drawings turn into delicate museum artefacts and medical files illustrating the darkest secrets of each individual expressed with consciously or unconsciously and they map a unique soul like nothing that has ever been mapped before. The authentic journey into the soul conversation highlights the individual’s existence. More often then not the individual’s have their own philosophies to which they live by and create their own set of codes of ethics in which they determine for themselves what is right and what is wrong for their own lives. Hardly ever does finance come into the conversation, instead past memories and explanations for existence are components which come to the surface. Pain and anguish through verbalization seems to rarely be a topic of conversation. Instead the topics range from history to philosophy to economics to technology. Often topics seem to be reoccurring choice topics such as Vegan or Buddhism or Bible Studies. The individual that participate at Our Place Society in the Visual Connection Mapping always seem to take the helm and they whisk me off to their own descriptions of their own existentialisms. I get the impression that individuals enjoy asserting authoritative power over me by expressing their own unique points of views something that is a pride and a value to them and at the same time individuals seem to want to share their own ideologies with me with the hope and convictions that I, as the drawer and listener, will be over-turned and join them in their beliefs.

Whether the beliefs are something I would consider or not gets transferred into the lines and structures within the lines start to take shape. Balanced symmetry within the abstract lines equal the balancing of the dialogue, like a successful completion of walking on a tight-wire act at a circus. When practicing a non-judgemental stance often the talker lets his imagination race from many topics like the multiple wave directions on the ocean on a stormy day. The feelings of the experience can be experienced in a psychosomatic way for the drawer because of the profound intensity of absolute conviction which the talker expresses himself often feels like the words were contained for days only to be released onto my ears when I arrive on Wednesday morning. The lines capture the intensity and the psychosomatic feelings on to paper and the abstraction documents the propsychotic verbalization of symptom expression mixed with existentialism equaling the individualization of the talker. Documenting psychosis through the line frequency drawings often makes the talker feel at ease during the dialogue. I can tell because often aggressive words become soothing words and aggressive intonations become soothing intonations and aggressive body language gets replaced with a more gentler body language and the terror in the eyes gets replaced with a softness in the eyes. These qualities all together are so precious and are such a big part of communicating that they often get missed but each word, intonation, body language, eye contact and overall feeling means so much when communicating with each other and this is what the lines on the paper symbolize. This in depth human connection of reciprocated communication on a meta psychological level, something unique to each dialogue and something that cannot be scientifically measured through graphs, calculations and mathematic equations but something of equal or more value to human kind and I believe that it is in this essence that at least attempts to both bringing psychosis to light and at the same time accepting psychotic existence through validation which as a end result lessens the human psychological distress contained within a trapped soul.

Bringing the Visual Connection Mapping idea to the community tonight is an attempt to share both the intrinsic values of the most marginalized in Victoria City and to share with you the uniqueness of dialoguing with the individuals face to face. Visual Connection Mapping is one tool amoungst an array of treatments, therapies, supports and help that a marginalized individual can choose to use. Visual Connection Mapping is not a cure for human suffering but it is a device which encodes the human suffering and transmits the decoding of the human experience onto paper through line frequency drawings – hence bringing the psychosis to light and providing a loop back in the dialogue for observational reflection and feedback by the drawer and the talker both at the same time. Visual Connection Mapping drawings are of an anonymous nature but at the same time they are personalized to past direct interactions so the purpose of the drawings is twofold. One to be an expression of captured human experience and one which is the personal medical file record which the drawings take on. Exposing the method, technique and act of Visual Connection Mapping with the general population is intended to inspire, motivate and bring awareness about the lives of Victoria City’s most marginalized. It is an expression of hope that more improvements in quality of life can be attained through this method and through perhaps other methods in the future. This talk about Visual Connection Mapping is intended to spark an interest in learning how to communicate with an individual who attends the drop-in center at Our Place Society on a metapsychological level through mapping human experiences abstractly. This is the creation of a brandnew language transmission which needs time to cultivate and expand in the future. It is the hope that components of Visual Connection Mapping will inspire others to view the complexity of this humanity model through a brandnew set of logic, a logic based on Existentialism versus stigma and hope versus despair.

 

New Beginnings

January 2017: Humanity is a very complicated subject, or is it? Throughout history, there seems to be a lot of comparisons between the personalities of leaders of countries and even within leaders within the sub-groups under the leaders. All of these individuals have very similar personality traits which are often considered power-oriented, survivalist and very interested in capitalism. Under the leaders are often the altruistic individuals, and often they are non-power hungry individuals. In the ideal society, equality should be at the fore-front but in reality often individuals who believe in discrimination and prejudice are at the fore-front. The corrupt rule the ethical in many cases. There are two holy professions left: the role of the artist and the role of the medical doctor. Both operate in the realm of ethics: the doctor through the Hippocratic oath and the artist through his/her search for truth. Often course, there can be cross-overs where the artist and the medical doctor turn into one. Medicine has something holy about it, as it is not an exact science. There are other components, such as the individual and their genes that make the whole person. Sometimes, when psychotherapy is administered, some individuals with serious mental illness can get better and heal; whereas sometimes some individuals cannot get better even though they received the exact same treatment as the other. This medical phenomenon is exactly what brings patient A and patient B into different categories and within a hospital setting, this can create a medical inequalities which are unintentional, and are discriminated through natural selection and nature. How much can a doctor actually control? Healing can be subjective.

Results of Visual Connection Mapping

Some of Visual Connection Mappings’ results consist of assumptions, judgements and conclusions based on more then a couple of years worth of observing the marginalized in Victoria City in three organizations. Five key points –

1. A shared psychosis develops when a peer model is applied; that is why it is crucial, if not necessary, for the helper to be a trained Mental Health and Addictions Practitioner
2. Multiple levels of bullying happens with the participants in the drop-in centers, peer support groups and studio groups;
3. There is a communication distortion when it comes to operating within a hierarchical process – making it virtually impossible to create a respectful, equality-based and non-discriminatory environment which the participants aspire to
4. A decentralized system structure is not possible
5. The control of power, control and influence is in the hands of one leader in each organization. It does not trickle down.

*Note: based on specific details, components, and real-life examples 2012 to 2017 Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Symptom: ‘Flashback Recidivism’

Flashbacks are symptoms of treatment resistant psychosis and they can be symptoms of vicarious trauma. One very specific type of flashback is what I call as ‘the flashback recidivism’. An example of a process of a ‘flashback recidivism’ is as follows.

In 2009 I traveled on KLM from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe to Vancouver, Canada. I was in the jetliner when the air-craft hit turbulence and profound air pockets. The KLM air-craft moved up and down, from side to side and at time the whole air-craft would fall kilometers down from the sky before being pulled back up to the intended flight-zone. This weather-bound turbulence happened above the snow-capped Canadian Rocky Mountains. It seemed like the air-craft was just above the peaks of the mountains. My thoughts were, ‘if this air-craft crashes into the peaks of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, who will ever be able to find me if I survive?’ I was quite aware that this air-craft would be like a grain of sand on a beach of hundreds of thousands of grains of sand, making it near impossible for any rescue plane to ever find this air-craft should we crash. Furthermore, there was an instance when the pilot came over the loudspeakers and announced that the air-craft was going to have to fly into another flight zone until the turbulence lessened. When the air-craft descended more, I looked out the window and saw another air-craft and their air-craft wing lights flashing meters away from the air-craft I was in. At that time I experienced a profound amount of terror because I realized that my airplane pilot was just as vulnerable as us as the passengers because I was sure the pilot: 1. could not see 360 degrees around the aircraft, 2. that there was no radar assistance from ground control this far up into the hemisphere and 3. I was quite aware that this air-craft could have landed up on top of that other air-craft (and it was an Act of God or a miracle that we did not).

When the air-craft eventually did touch-down on the tarmac at Vancouver International Airport, I asked the KLM stewardess about the turbulence and she mentioned she had never experienced that extreme level of turbulence in her 30 years of being a KLM stewardess. It confirmed, validated and justified my fear and the terror I experienced in the air.

Once landed on the ground and leading my life again in Victoria city, I started having flashback recidivism into this event approximately every one month or less. I would re-live the exact experience, as if I was on the air-craft and dropping out of the sky. The feeling of helplessness, complete loss of control and an absolute terror that I was about to die.

In the city of Victoria there are currently zero trained Mental Health and Addictions professionals, psychiatrists and medical doctors that can treat this phenomenology. It is my intention to investigate as to how to go about solving the flashback recidivism and perhaps in the future self- creating a realistic technique intended to lessen the psychological distress of my own flashback recidivism and perhaps it can be shared with others who experience similar processes to different events with the idea to help them too.

Written by Annuska van der Pol, BA, PDD-IMHA – Mental Health and Addictions Practitioner, Victoria BC, Canada

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Visual Connection Mapping: helper and client 2015

From 2013 to 2016 I went to Our Place Society and listened to clients as a helper and applied visual connection mapping. I would listen while creating an abstract drawing. This is a photograph of a  detail from an original drawing of a conversation I had with a client in the drop-in center. The lines represent the conversation, the verbal and non-verbal connection, the underlining emotion and the deep intellectual and emotional message. These visual connection mapping are really like doctors files which are private. For educational purposes a visual detail of this private confidential conversation is being revealed. Photo, 2015.

Unintended consequence of peer run organizations

In the summer of 2016 I stopped working as a trained mental health and addictions practitioner as a volunteer in the organizations, Pandora Arts Collective Society, Our Place Society and the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society Victoria in Victoria city, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada.  At the Pandora Arts Collective Society I was a studio liaison bridging the gap between studio participants and community members on the board of directors. At Our Place Society I analyzed symptoms of schizophrenia by working one on one with individuals in the drop-in center and at the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society Victoria I engaged with a group while observing the group process of people with schizophrenia.  To me, each of the three organizations had one common theme and that was schizophrenia. Out of experience I noticed that each individual that I engaged with was unique, and on a macro-level – each organization I was inside was unique as well. On reflection of my four years of hands-on experience and working shoulder to shoulder with individuals with a diagnosed DSM psychiatric label of schizophrenia in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada I would like to mention two main components. First, it is in my humble opinion that psychotherapy needs to be re-introduced into the Victoria City Medical system and second, it is in my semi-professional expert opinion that, it is not the clients with schizophrenia who are resistant to changing, but rather the management of the organizations which take care of the clients with schizophrenia who are resistant to change. This phenomenon hinders positive personal development in clients and can lead to an increase of symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia. I believe this to be an  unintended consequence of a community run, peer run and non-medically run organization.

(If you request any information regarding my findings, please contact me by e-mail and I will be happy to communicate in more depth on this topic).

Note: Visual Connection Mapping will continue in the private sector.

 

Paradox and Cognitive Dissonance

Short rundown of 1 years work, 2013 to 2014

1. From 2013 to 2014  actively advocated The Communication Model on a macro, meso and micro level in the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

2. Contacted more than 100 professionals in the community of Victoria city

3. Dialogued with more than 400 peers in the community of the Victoria city

4. Attempted to use the method of art to convey a complicated message

5. Attempted to show the cultural climate of Victoria city – hierarchical nature with the intention to decentralize it to make it more fair for individuals with serious mental illness

6. Presented Visual Connection Mapping to the community at the Oak Bay library in September and October 2014 – bringing the outcomes and processes to the community in an open and transparent way in order to put the onus not only on the individuals with serious mental illness and the practitioners but also to attempt to put the onus on the Victoria city community

7. After presenting the findings of The Communication Model to the community in Victoria city it became clear that a Mental Health and Addiction practitioner is a very specialized skill which cannot be transfered to the community through words conveying The Communication Model and all of her components, instead, it is to become a locked in system of ideas, with variants open to the public, such as the blog. However the actual application of Visual Connection Mapping in the community, combined with private components of The Communication Model will remain under a lock and key within the realm of confidentiality and privacy.

0.01% of the General Population

0.01% of the General Population

This Communication Model is a model of care that is intended to help an individual who is experiencing mental distress. It is model that does not cost anything, does not offer advice and does not promise anything. It is a model of acceptance and non-judgment, and intended for the 0.01% of the general population with treatment resistant psychosis.

Method: When an individual with mental distress communicates his/her feelings in a confidential manner what often happens is that the acceptance of the individual leads to an empowerment. This empowerment leads an individual to want to take responsibility for his/her own destiny. The Communication Model works in a very contradictory and paradoxical way & at the same time in a very positive way.

The Communication Model is intended to pick-up where Sigmund Freud left off. For example, in the past Sigmund Freud believed that a person with schizophrenia could not be counseled. This concept lead to individuals with schizophrenia currently being medicated through the hospital + general practitioners and sometimes receiving psycho-social care in the community.

The current psychiatric system is built on Sigmund Freud’s concept and I want to add to that and focus more on the individuals emotions. I believe that it is through communicating with an individual with refractory schizophrenia that drives individual self-mental-change.

Throughout my volunteer work and internship work at the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society in Victoria, I noticed that individuals with serious mental illness, who were medicated often said two important statements: [1] that they wished that they could feel again – because the medications were making them feel numb and [2] that even though they were taking medications they were still experiencing distress inside of themselves. These two statements made me realize that there is a need to focus on the emotions underlining the symptoms. It was the wish of individuals with serious mental illness – out of their own testimonies – and it is these testimonies – that is one of the main reasons why the Communication Model was born. Furthermore, even though it is mentioned through the Medical Model that medications for schizophrenia are effective – the opposite side of the same coin is that it is a known fact that the medications do not work for a very select group of treatment resistant individuals despite proper compliance and the adherence of strict and regimented instructions and the following of medications schemas. It is called Treatment Resistant Psychosis / Refactory Schizophrenia and the Communication Model is intended to try to help these very select specific individuals. During my Interprofessional Mental Health and Addictions post degree program diploma at Camosun College in Victoria British Columbia Canada, I conducted a literature review into Schizophrenia and the Canadian Justice System – and with more than 400 peer academic research references indicated that many seriously mentally ill (SMI) individuals were DSM diagnosed and in jail. To me, that means that the Medical Model did not work well for them – seeing that the individuals were now behind bars.

Treatment Resistance Psychosis is something that is not the fault of an individual. Instead it is the opposite. Treatment Resistant Psychosis means that these marginalized individuals often get stigmatized by psychiatrists and medical doctors because the psychiatrists and medical doctors do not know how to deal with this very specific group of people. Because the medication and the Medical Model seems to be working for most people with schizophrenia (estimation of 0.99% of the general population), often what occurs, is that psychiatrists and medical doctors will turn a blind-eye to this group of people, (estimation of 0.01% of the general population) because the majority of individuals seem to be receiving treatment that works. The estimated 0.01% general population will have schizophrenia symptoms, for example paranoia, however they will be labeled behavioral versus symptom-related. This leads individuals to fall through the cracks and hence often become homeless or in the Canadian jail system.

Would it not be logical if the Medical Model started to focus on the 0.01% of the general population treatment resistant psychosis individuals (this percentage is an estimation) versus the 0.99 % treatment successful psychosis individuals – or is that not feasible nor effective according to the Medical Model? Is the brain so vast that it is impossible, with any exact precision to pin-pointing an exact area to be targeted? The psychiatrist often needs to adjust the medications of any individual with serious mental illness many times before being able to access if they work.

The Communication Model is a tool that is intended to help the individuals, the hypothesized 0.01 % of the general population, with treatment resistant psychosis, through a unique way of communication. This unique form of communication is the symbiosis between the practitioner (myself as chief operator of the Communication Model) and an individual (experiencing treatment resistant psychosis symptoms, which in the realm of the Communication Model are referred to as emotions versus medical symptoms).

The aim of the Communication Model is to relieve pain by drawing and talking and linking into each others psyche in a humanity approach. There is no financial gain, no promises with be made and no advice will be given. At the same time, it must be mentioned that a trained Mental Health and Addictions Practitioner should conduct the Communication Model. As the Communication Model is intended for Refractory Schizophrenia solely. There is a unique communication symbiosis that develops and this is a very specialized skill – gained though lived-experience – combined with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Arts Policy, Management and Education, specialization Art Education combined with a post degree diploma in Interprofessional Mental Health and Addictions. There is a hyper-focus on treatment resistant psychosis intermingled with Existentialism, Individualism and Personalism. The Communication Model is to be conducted with safety in mind.

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Written by Annuska van der Pol, BA, PDD-IMHA
Mental Health and Addictions Practitioner
Victoria, BC Canada

Note: the number 0.01% treatment resistant psychosis of the general population is a number referenced in peer-academic material

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“Crack it open” by The Who

Picture taken on Dallas Road, Victoria British Columbia by Annuska van der Pol, October 9th 2013

“Behind Blue Eyes” lyrics by The Who

No one knows what it’s like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
No one knows what it’s like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies
But my dreams
They aren’t as empty
As my conscience seems to beI have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That’s never free

No one knows what it’s like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you

No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through

But my dreams
They aren’t as empty
As my conscience seems to be

I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That’s never free

When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool

If I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
If I shiver, please give me a blanket
Keep me warm, let me wear your coat

No one knows what it’s like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes

But Who am I?

Within the realm of The Communication Model, I am an individual who likes to look from the outside in onto situations. I was taught this skill when I was doing my Bachelor of Arts degree in The Netherlands. I analyze paintings as an Art Historian. And as a Mental Health and Addictions Practitioner I often observe, listen and independently reflect on human beings that I connect with. Since I was seventeen (17) years old – I have been reflecting on humanity by means of writing and creating communication drawings.

But who am I deep inside? What makes me different from other artists and Mental Health and Addictions Practitioners? I think the answer resides in my roots. My roots are strong. They are unique to me. Even though my roots include my mother and father; my two sets of grandparents; my aunts and uncles; brother and sisters; cousins; nieces and nephews – my roots go deeper and deeper then that. They go back pass the core family unit to a country history. One of tolerance and trust; values and confidence; and compromise.

Written by Annuska van der Pol, BA, PDD-IMHA

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Treatment Resistant Psychosis is what the Communication Model is targetting

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Within the realm of serious mental illness, there is a symptom / emotion which is referred to as Treatment Resistant Psychosis. If you are a medical doctor it is considered a symptom however, if you are looking at it through the lens of the Communication Model, then it is an emotion.

Treatment Resistant Psychosis is a very special kind of emotion. It is an emotion that cannot be easily treated with psychiatric medications. Instead it is something a lot more profound than that. It is the treatment resistant psychosis which often leads individuals landing in jail or living on the streets and the Communication Model is intended to help express this one emotion through the means of verbal communication and through means of the abstract drawing which is born out of the dual communication, between practitioner and the individual who is experiencing the mental distress.

Often what occurs is that an individual with treatment resistant psychosis tries to function in society as best as one can. This often leads one to having a good full-time job, being a valued member in the community, having friends and good relations with family – and at the same time there is this incredible inner emotion which seems to tear at the seams of ones very own existence. This is treatment resistant psychosis.  On the opposite side of the same coin, an individual could have such a hard time containing this emotion that it starts to rule ones life – this leads to a form of incoherent decision-making, confusion and inconsistent behavior. A behavior which is not in line with the norms and values of standard society etiquette.

It is an emotion which Emily Dickinson best explains with her words, “My life had stood – a loaded gun.”

Treatment resistant psychosis is a prevailing emotion and an underlining emotion.

Sometimes a medical doctor will try to treat this within a medical facility, however this specific type of emotion can often not be treated within the realm of scientific formulated medicine for the brain. It is probably one of the greatest mysteries in our world today – as to why treatment resistant psychosis cannot be subdued like other symptoms/emotions within the schizophrenia spectrum can – this makes it such a great obstacle to help these very specific individuals, with this very select and very specific trait / symptom/ emotion.

Currently there is no cure, nor is there any real preventative measures for this specific psychosis. In other words, there is zero treatment for this. The Communication Model Approach, by using the triangle method (practitioner, individual with mental distress and the link to the abstract drawing) is intended to aid these specific individuals with this one specific trait. The Communication Model is a very specific tool to help these very specific individuals.

References:

Chadwick, P., & Birchwood, M. (1995). The Omnipotence of Voices II: The
Beliefs About Voices Questionnaire (BAVQ). British Journal Of
Psychiatry, 166773.

Cleary, M. M., Hunt, G. E., Matheson, S. S., Siegfried, N. N., & Walter,
G. G. (2008). Psychosocial treatment programs for people with both
severe mental illness and substance misuse. Schizophrenia Bulletin,
34(2), 226-228. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbm165

Lysaker, P. H., & Roe, D. (2012). The processes of recovery from schizophrenia: The emergent role of integrative psychotherapy, recent developments, and new directions. Journal Of Psychotherapy Integration, 22(4), 287-297. doi:10.1037/a0029581

Silberner-Becker, N., & Amler, M. (2005). Leading Edge – The Search for a Developmental Promoting Selfobject Relationship: Towards a Theory and Technique. Selbstpsychologie: Europäische Zeitschrift Für Psychoanalytische Therapie Und Forschung / Self Psychology: European Journal For Psychoanalytic Therapy And Research, 6(20), 262-287.

Photograph, taken September 19th, 2013, “Pathos at Craigdarroch Castle”, Victoria BC time 645 pm.

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