News updates from VICCIR, a Vancouver Island counselling organisation serving immigrants, refugees and newcomer families. Issues cover training events with transcultural psychiatry experts and reflections on the organisation's work and anniversaries.
Website: https://viccir.mymagic.page/
A newsletter publishing essays, guest posts and journal excerpts on the philosophy, ethics and practice of psychiatry and psychotherapy. Issues combine first-person accounts of psychosis and treatment, clinical reasoning, and commentary on psychoanalytic and relational care debates.
Donald J. Robertson, a cognitive-behavioural therapist, explains Stoic philosophy and its practical techniques, drawing on ancient sources such as Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Musonius Rufus. Readers get articles, course lessons and commentary on how Stoic exercises compare with modern psychotherapy.
Long-form essays on psychedelic therapy, integration, and the psychology of change, weighing scientific evidence against cultural claims. Readers get careful, candid discussion of dosing, difficult experiences, and how people actually shift their self-understanding.
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