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A personal exploration of generosity

August 5th, 2010 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on A personal exploration of generosity)

Lawrence Scanlan spent a year exploring big questions about doing good

Can one person make a difference? When we write a cheque to a charity or volunteer at a food bank, we’re part of the solution—aren’t we? Author Lawrence Scanlan went looking for answers to those questions. He selected twelve different charitable organizations and spent a month in each, and what he discovered during his year-long odyssey was the new face of philanthropy—its players, its politics, its undeniable satisfactions and its fundamental perils. (more…)

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Native youth, in their own voices

July 29th, 2010 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Native youth, in their own voices)

Jacqueline Windh’s quest to let First Nations kids speak about their lives

A series of articles called “Native Youth Speak Out” is being presented at The Tyee.ca. A year in the making, the series was written by Jacqueline Windh, a writer, photographer, and broadcaster who lives in Tofino. “I try to use my skills to get their words out, not to put words in their mouths,” Jacqueline told  The Tyee. She added that she has been constantly surprised by how little Canadians know about what the lives of First Nations people are like. (more…)

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A history of mistreatment

July 8th, 2010 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on A history of mistreatment)

Robert Whitaker updates Mad in America, the revealing history of psychiatric treatment

In Robert Whitaker’s Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, “one lone author bears moral witness to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people abused, tortured and damaged by the psychiatric establishment.” The book is a history of the treatment of the severely mentally ill in the United States from colonial times until today, and it may surprise many readers who assume that the modern psychopharmacology era has “revolutionized” the care of the severely mentally ill. The second edition of Mad in America has just recently been published. (more…)

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You can’t measure your heart

July 1st, 2010 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on You can’t measure your heart)

Simon Walls’ continues his cross-Canada pilgrimage of self-discovery and sharing

Singer-songwriter Simon Walls’ travels began shortly after the loss of a friend to suicide. He spent seven months in the Katimavik program and then walked across Spain, accompanied by the book “The Pilgrimage”, by Paulo Coelho.

In April 2010 he left Victoria on what will be a cross-Canada walk—to share his music and experiences. (more…)

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When the story becomes the therapy

June 17th, 2010 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on When the story becomes the therapy)

Autoethnography a powerful way to investigate personal & cultural issues, including trauma & illness

Autoethnography is “research, writing, story, and method that connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political,” says Carolyn Ellis, a professor and researcher at University of South Florida.

Dr. Ellis teaches a range of courses related to personal stories and ethnographic narratives, including Communicating Illness, Loss, and Grief.

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A study in sense-making

June 17th, 2010 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on A study in sense-making)

picture 212banner pfrLooking at obsessive compulsive disorder: From arbitrariness of diagnosis to roles of recovering patient, the use of creative nonfiction in research

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