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Dan Edmunds, Ed.D., B.C.S.A., DAPA is an existential psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Dr. Edmunds' work has focused on drug free relational approaches for extreme states of mind and autism/developmental differences. He is the founder of the International Center for Humane Psychiatry, an emancipatory movement for human rights in the mental health system. Dr. Edmunds is the director of the Critical Psychology and Alternative Mental Health Services programs via European-American University. Dr. Edmunds is the author of The Meeting of Two Persons: What Therapy Should Be, which addresses the need to validate experience and explores the role of oppression and the social, familial, and political factors leading to distress. Dr. Edmunds has spoken a number of radio and television programs on existential and critical psychology, human rights in the mental health system, autism acceptance, and social justice issues. Dr. Edmunds is Board Certified in Sexual Abuse Issues via the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and is a Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association.
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Dr. Edmunds in his blog,
Extreme States of Mind, again addresses concerns about how medications alone do not deal with the underlying events that lead to what often are termed mental disorders.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...atric-paradigm
While I continue to be medicated, I also am aware I likely will never be as healthy as I had hoped. Being told several times by different professionals I have a personality not conducive to therapy is problematical. As I understand what is meant by "not conducive to therapy" has to do with a conscious or subconscious resistance to change.