“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”

Aeon
The Hypersane Are Among Us, If Only We Are Prepared to Look

Philosophy For Life
What to do in a spiritual emergency

Gizmodo
How to Cope With an Existential Crisis

Third Factor
How Can “Disintegration” Be Positive?

Mad In America
Can Madness Save The World?

Waking Times
What a Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital

Global Vision
A Conversation With Dr. John Weir Perry

Uplift
The shamanic view of mental health

Psychology Today
The Wake Up Call: Can Suffering Set Us Free?

Tygers of Wrath
the far side of madness: psychosis as purposive

BrainBlogger
Full Recovery from Schizophrenia?

Positive Psychology
Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration in Psychology

The Washington Post
How a West African shaman helped my schizophrenic son in a way Western medicine couldn’t

Audio

Joseph Campbell
Psychosis & The Hero's Journey

Joseph Campbell
The Inward Journey

Book Extracts

Spiritual Emergencies: Understanding & Treatment Of Psycho-Spiritual Crises
Taken from Psychology of the Future, by Stanislav Grof.

Introduction
Taken from Hypersanity, by Neel Burton.

Wisdom In Bedlam
Taken from Breaking Down Is Waking Up, by Dr. Russell Razzaque.

Treatment Or Therapy?
Chapter 1 of Trials Of The Visionary Mind, by John Weir Perry.

Evolution Changes Everything
Taken from Shamans Among Us, by Joseph Polimeni.

Introduction
Taken from Spiritual Crisis, by Fransje de Waard.