The first day I realised I was really afraid of being infected and also of the proximity of the new coronavirus to my family, I understood what some of my Guarani-Mbyá friends have been saying to me since 2003. For…
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”, act 2, scene 2 “(…) But the label ‘schizophrenia’ is often toxic for those who acquire…
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse But there’s nothing in it And you’ll ask yourself Where is my mind? Where is my mind?…
The anthropological film project “Healing Landscapes in Berlin” features seven different portraits of healing personalities in Germany’s capital city, each of them being interviewed and filmed in their respective professional environment. The healers identified themselves as an Arabic energy healer…
Verschiedene therapeutische Praktiken des Selbst, welche zur Förderung von Gesundheit, Glücksempfinden und seelischem Wohlergehen eingesetzt werden – beispielsweise self-help, Coaching, Kurse für spirituelles Wachstum, self-tracking sowie alternative und komplementäre Therapieformen –, sind weltweit populärer geworden. Um diese Praktiken herum sind…
Although yoga has the explicit aim of guiding the flows of consciousness (Hartranft 2003), it was only in the last decade, and alongside the growing public interest in the discipline, that the psychiatric field paid closer attention to yoga’s relevance…