Psychiatry

[close] ...April 14, 2017 to May 14, 2017...

[close] Transpersonal psychology is concerned with the study of humanity's highest potential, and with the recognition, understanding, and realization of unitive and spiritual and transcendent states of consciousness. Here is a place for identifying and discussing the literature in, on, and around the topic, its roots, and its newest iterations, and to foster and grow a community for whom the topic resonates.

[close] A place for current and former TMCA Residents and Faculty (and family!) to discuss literature of interest.

[close] Welcome to **19th Century Insane Asylums** — a group dedicated to exploring the haunting history, literature, architecture, treatments, and human stories surrounding psychiatric institutions of the 1800s. This group is for readers, writers, historians, researchers, mental health advocates, and anyone fascinated by the realities of asylum life during the Victorian era and beyond. Together, we discuss: • Historical insane asylums and mental institutions • Patient experiences and forgotten voices • 19th-century mental health treatments and beliefs • Gothic and historical fiction set in asylums • Memoirs, nonfiction, documentaries, and research • Women’s institutionalization and social stigma • Preservation of asylum history and architecture Whether you are here because of a love for historical fiction, an interest in mental health history, or a desire to better understand the lives of those confined behind asylum walls, you are welcome here. Please keep discussions respectful and compassionate, especially when discussing mental illness, institutional abuse, and real historical tragedies. “In a world eager to forget them, may we remember the voices they tried to silence.”