List of Peer Voices Network Articles

February 2024

• Early Notes on Challenges and Pitfalls of the "Safe Space" Concept

January 2024

• Self-Care: Sometimes Helpful, Sometimes a Tool of Oppression

December 2023

• Evidence Against Mental Health First Aid - Not Helpful, Frequently Harmful

November 2023

• Trigger Warnings and Suicidality

• Other Assorted Important Reads (Resource Gallery)

October 2023

• How St. Louis City Staff Could Immediately Raise $440,000 To Support the Homeless

• Perfectionism, Liberation Psychology, and Perception Matching Reality

• Feedback about Harm Caused is Not "Being Negative"

September 2023

• Compassion Hijacking - How Objectively Faulty World Views Are Used To Justify Oppression

• The Accountability Triangle

• Crushing a Grape and Crushing a Human Aren't The Same Thing - Why False Equivalent Analogies Are Problematic

• Dual Assumption Error

August 2023

• What Advocacy Takes and Why We Need to Do It Anyway (Story Gallery)

• Performative Non-Commitment DEI Case Study - Boston University School of Public Health

• Responsibility Hypocrisy 101

• My Critiques of van der Kolk's Bestseller The Body Keeps Score

 July 2023

• Draft Thoughts on Professional Defensiveness (Work in Progress)

• A Brief Note On Neurodivergent Listening Styles

• Words Matter Series: "Feels Like Disrespect" Versus "Was Disrespect"

• Why Telling People to "Accept Reality" Can Be Deeply Problematic and Oppressive Phrasing

• Lived Experience Inclusion Effectiveness - Literature Review Gallery

• Another Update / Overview of the "Peer Inclusion in Health Systems" Movement: Why We Need Support

June 2023

• The Concept of Performative Ethics, a Case Study from Mental Health Services

• First Attempt at Notes on Imposter Syndrome + Who's Responsible For Distress?

• What Is Conceptual Engineering?

• Lived Experience Inclusion Project Types Overview (Draft Half-Finished Report In-Progress)

• Racism and Sexism Within the Behavioral Science Evidence Base - A Letter to Decision Makers

• Response to "Opioid Addiction is a Disorder of Brain Structure" – Importance of Explaining Neuroscience Accurately

May 2023

• Functional Communication, Disability Rights Theory, and Value-Added Versus Value-Neutral Word Definitions

• Advocacy Statement To a Member of the NIH Working Group on Disability

• Human Minds Are Unique. Carbon Atoms Aren't. Why That Matters When We Talk About Mental Health Disorders

• Holding Individuals, Parents, or Society Accountable When A Child Has No Friends?

• Counter-Response to "A Teacher Never Fails, Only You Do"

• Latest Draft Attempt at Explaining "What is Gender?"

• Letter to Boston University Asking for Co-Empowered Peer Inclusion in Public Health Research and Support Efforts

April 2023

• Social Anxiety, Liberation Psychology, and Perception Matching Reality

• Social Services Report: Rebuking Individualism, Lack of Effective Services, Medical Racism/Ableism, and Proposed Solutions

March 2023

• Response to an Infographic on People Pleasing

• Physical Violence and Mental Violence - Which is Really Worse?

• Blaming The Distressed Is Distortion of Reality (How to Work in Mental Health Reality, Not Mental Health Mythology)

February 2023

• The Hard Truth Of When, Sometimes, Help Does Not Exist (Even Though It Could)

• Inclusion Or Tokenism? Response to Washington State's Attempt to Legally Codify Lived Experience Inclusion

• Fundraising Barriers at Square Zero

January 2023

• A Condition I Have - Hyper Semantic Sensitivity / Semantic OCD

December 2022

• What Is The Peer Workforce? What Is a Peer Support Specialist?

• The America "Dream" of Children Needing Saving and Parents Deserving Blame

• Mental Health Advocacy Resources

• If Money Expresses Value Why Does So Much Preventable Suffering Exist?

• When Personal Boundaries Fail - Part 1

• The Lived Experience Input Gap

November 2022

• Yet Another Problematic Example of the Medical Model of Mental Health

• The Philosophy Cliff: Why Applied Philosophy Matters ... Sometimes

• Moving Beyond The "Effective" or "Ineffective" Dichotomy in Occupational Therapy

• Response to the Question of Neuroplasticity

• All Stats Lie - Examples of Social Science Data and "Evidence-Based" Failures

• Why It's Problematic That Self-Regulation Is The Main Solution On Offer For Emotional Distress

October 2022

• Why Words Matter - "Coping Skills"

September 2022

• What Does the Term "Language" Mean - On Word Use Disagreement and How to Effectively Handle Such Situations

• Critique of "Maladaptive Coping", Emotional Regulation, and Other Related Concepts

August 2022

• The Problem is Hermeneutical Injustice and The Solution is Conceptual Engineering

• Glossary of Terms

• Job Hunting - The Two Things You Need to Demonstrate To Get Hired

• The Reality of Interdependence (and why it matters for counseling)

July 2022

• Three Ways This Therapist Disrespected Me When Replying to My First Inquiry Email, And Tips For How To Do Better

June 2022

• Are Those in Power Themselves Disempowered? Thoughts On Accidental System Entrapment

May 2022

• We Need To Talk About Why "We Need More Love" Isn't the Answer

• Today's Instance of Myth of Self-Empowerment

• Twitter Chatter: History of Labor Conflict Reporting

April 2022

• Mental Health: Focusing Beyond the Individual

• Analysis and critique of "you don't have to explain yourself" advice

March 2022

• Various Ways We Study the Human Mind

• Is Pink Real?

February 2022

• Who Raises Children?

• Why "Trust But Verify" Is Backwards

April 2021

• Draft Attempt - What Are Mental Health Disorders

December 2020

• Scattered Thoughts on Therapy Supervision and Client Self-Advocacy

• Mental Health and Polyvagal Theory and the Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Nervous Systems

August 2020

• Essay on Relationship With Self, Others, and Society

July 2020

• The Assertive Empathy Game Plan for Conversations

• Tips for Calling an Emotional Crisis and/or Suicide Prevention Hotline

• Setting Conversation Expectations

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