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MENTAL HEALTH AFFAIRS⚡️⚡️BOOK REVIEW: Life with Voices by Dmitriy GutkovichThis episode is also available as a blog post: https://mentalhealthaffairs.blog/book-review-life-with-voices-by-dmitriy-gutkovich/
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/max-guttman/support2022-11-2905 min
Mental Reality with Dr. BeachHearing Voices — Helpful Strategies (Part 2 of 2)In this follow-up episode, Dmitriy Gutkovich, mental health advocate and lived experience expert on hearing voices, and Dr. Beach cover concrete strategies to help those who are hearing voices that can negatively impact their happiness, attention, perceived abilities, and/or overall voice ecosystem. Recommended strategies include: learning how to create distance and not personalize voices; scheduling set time with voices; defining threatening attacks more productively; tolerating the ambiguity of voices and not needing to solve all presenting problems; embracing the vagueness of voices; and developing a voice ecosystem. This episode will leave listeners feeling empowered and hopeful and, contrary...2020-08-1824 min
Mental Reality with Dr. BeachHearing Voices — The Experience (Part 1 of 2)Wonder what it's like to hear voices? Dmitriy Gutkovich, mental health advocate and author of the new book, Life with Voices — A Guide for Harmony sits down with Dr. Beach to tell his own decade-long personal experience of hearing voices in preparation for the book launch. They discuss the myths and misconceptions much of society has regarding the topic and psychosis in general and how these biases cause further mental health stigma. They also cover: how the media and movies often distort and sensationalize mental health phenomena and, particularly, the relationship between mental illness and violence; the ch...2020-08-1418 min