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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Monday I visited Maskine Maskine Amager in Copenhagen & I was blown away by the punk, stubborn recovery power of this place for / by people with SMI. Love against the [psychiatric] machine 🖤

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Wouter @wtrax.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

9-9 '25 start voor de tweede keer de online cursus 'Ervaring, kennis, wijsheid', met zeven nieuwe gastdocenten obv filosoof en ervaringsdeskundige Wouter Kusters. Deze cursus is voor iedereen geïnteresseerd in ervaringen met psychiatrie en filosofie. www.psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl/cursus-ervar...

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cursus ervaring kennis wijsheid - Psychiatrie en Filosofie

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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

“Ok so you see a stunningly gorgeous individual.” “Mmhm.” “I’m trying to make a philosophical point.” “Go on.”

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Dit is ook best wel contra Minkowski met zijn 'Loss of Vital Contact with Reality' (VCR).

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

D&G citeren Wilhelm Reich: 'Kenmerkend voor de schizofrenie is juist de ervaring van dit vitale element... Wat hun levensgevoel betreft, verhouden de neuroot en de pervert zich tot de schizofreen zoals de schraperige middenstander tot de grote avonturier.'

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

De schizofreen heeft zeker niet een of andere schimmige voeling met het leven verloren, integendeel, hij bevindt zich zo dicht als maar kan bij het kloppende hart van de realiteit, op een intens punt dat met de productie van het reële samenvalt. D&G, AO, 122

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

RD Laing heeft volledig gelijk als hij het schizoproces definieert als een initiatiereis, een transcendentale ervaring van verlies van het Ego, dat een subject laat zeggen: '.... Ik zag - nee, ik voelde veeleer dat ik een angstaanjagende reis voor de boeg had.' Deleuze & Guattari, AO (p. 118)

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Dorst van Esther Gerritsen lezen omdat haar Roxy zo goed was. De neo-nostalgische soundtrack van Mufasa erbij: 'We call it Milele (paradisium), it's always there (you wish)'. Terug met de trein uit Utrecht van een autoetnografie-etentje.

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Sabine @sabss.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Het is net alsof de mensen die wij macht geven niet het beste met ons voor hebben.

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Just submitted my abstract for poster presentation at the Euro Conference on Integrated Care and Assertive Outreach in Copenhagen, in June 2025. Booked my train tickets; 10 hours landscape views of NL-DE-DEN, I look forward to that! #DoNotFLy Hopefully by then I will celebrate the end of #PhdLife.

The abstract text.

Title: The pearls and perils of friendship as method in the margins (FaMM) in social psychiatric research

Authors: Alke Wisselink, Gustaaf Bos, Lian van der Krieke and Richard Bruggeman.

Abstract text: ‘Friendship as method’ (Tillmann-Healy, 2003) is a relatively unknown and unusual qualitative, ethnographic research approach, especially in academic psychiatry. Still, we drew on this inter-personal approach in prolonged encounter-based fieldwork, studying a) ‘the good life’ of people with psychosis susceptibility, and b) the associated, often complex, communications and collaborations, in psychiatric and supportive housing contexts in The Netherlands. The researcher purposefully acted less like a ‘regular’ researcher or a professional care worker, and more as a friend, aiming to account for the interlocutors’ isolated and marginalized positions. In line with a methodological paper we have written, we show on this poster the ‘Pearls’ and ‘Perils’ of approaching interlocutors in marginalized positions as a friend. And we present some lessons learned. This poster resonates with relevant ethical questions and concerns in qualitative research and (academic) psychiatry, such as reciprocity, intimacy and boundaries. We conclude that ‘Friendship as Method in the Margins’ (FaMM) requires reflexivity, courage to experiment, boundary-work, and an open, safe space of team supervision.

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This morning, the 10-yo refused to go to school, after we quarreled about 'playing with a large screw driver'. Major emotional energy drain. It is hard to switch to writing. #PhdLife #Motherhood

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Today we had a garden party for my birthday (and I also happen to be a woman) 🎂, and in the evening we watched 'The boy who harnassed the wind'. It is important to be aware of the possibility of scarcity (food, school), in our global northern sphere of often suffocating and decadent wealth.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A Dutch word for something (or more commonly someone) that you can’t think of the name of is huppeldepup! There is no word that I enjoy saying aloud more. HUPPELDEPUP! There’s also a pub in The Hague that puns on the word huppeldepup…

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The 10 year old did his 'spreekbeurt' about Sherlock Holmes. Love it. Proud. You know, regular mom stuff.

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A Memoir For the Iatrogenic Age A Review of Laura Delano’s “Unshrunk” “The reason I’m no longer mentally ill is that I made a decision to question the ideas about myself that I’d assumed were fact & discard what I learned was actually fiction.” Delano www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-memoir-f...

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A Memoir For the Iatrogenic Age

A Review of Laura Delano's "Unshrunk"

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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I went through my Twitter bookmarks today and wanted to share these informative and thoughtful provoking pieces on positioning, positionality, and positionality statements written in recent years (in case you haven't seen them already 😊):

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Konrad Banicki @castalia1981.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"'Rabbit's clever,' said Pooh thoughtfully. 'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit's clever.' 'And he has Brain.' 'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit has Brain.' There was a long silence. 'I suppose,' said Pooh, 'that that's why he never understands anything.'" @sethzuihosegall.com

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Op dit punt voelt proefschrift schrijven soms/vaak als het opwarmen van oude kliekjes. Steeds weer re-animeren in de magnetron.

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Christian Munthe @christianmunthe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

HUMANITY av Jakob Grosse-Ophof

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Another #PhDSky writing day #contact paper. I have arrived at the paragraph about kindness. Today I will connect the building blocks - ranging from basic respect to warm(er) kindness, to the desire for romantic contact amongst people with #psychosis (labelled SMI), in sheltered contexts. #Skychiatry

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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Working With Similarities and Differences: Relational Processes in Transdisciplinary Qualitative Research With Diverse Teams Michael Dao, Soma de Bourbon, Melissa McClure Fuller, and Miranda Worthen journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16/01/2025

how do people keep sane in a world that has lost its minds over genAI? what is your coping mechanism? how do you maintain professional relationships when your view seems like an outlier?

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Are you looking to connect into conversations across the medical humanities? Do you want to learn more about the latest concepts, writers, projects and people animating the field? The Polyphony has arrived in BlueSky 🎉🦋🐟 Please join us & share widely @the-polyphony.bsky.social #MedHums

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Today I realized that I still need to learn so much about writing #ethnography. And this is an anxious realization bc I have so little PhD time left.

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Tonight waking up after a weird scary dream I 'saw' (imaginary) drones floating above the bed and throughout the bedroom. Matrix 'monitoring-the-humans' BFG vibes.

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Was peacefully listening to Bach when the playlist continued with a) (dit is een Irritant liedje, b) Poep op oma (en het is mijn eigen schuld), en c) (Ik Wil) Op Date Met (Selma) - #LifeWithYoungKids

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Grist @grist.org · 14/01/2025

Loud, angry, and Indigenous: Heavy metal takes on colonialism and climate change Indigenous bands have always been part of metal, creating a place for musicians and fans to channel anger and find community. grist.org/arts-culture... #Indigenous #HeavyMetal #Rock #Music #Colonialism

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Loud, angry, and Indigenous: Heavy metal takes on colonialism and climate change

Indigenous bands have always been part of metal, creating a place for musicians and fans to channel anger and find community.

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

YES, we are back at it again! My time #PhDLife is limited (deadline April 1). Target for this morning is to finish this try-out draft of paper number FOUR, make it max 6-8 pages or so, and click the send button.

Private lives, public issues
Precarity and perseverance. How people with psychosis and close others survive / endure in Dutch society.

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David @davidmordecai.com · 13/01/2025

Despite knowing that I am currently stable from a psychiatric perspective, I still found myself considering that somehow the visit would spiral out of control and I might get sectioned. That is the tragedy and trauma of coercive psychiatry. It casts a long and frightening shadow over all of us.

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Kathy Stanton, PMHNP-BC @nursekathy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Help! I'm searching PubMed and I don't think I have the right search terms. I'm trying to find studies on adolescent suicidality, specifically what parental behaviors are protective in the setting of adolescent suicidal ideation. Open to ideas. #psychiatry #psychology

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Dr. Zoe R. Smith @drzoersmith.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

“Sometimes writing about a thing makes it easier to stand.” Octavia E. Butler “All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.” ― Octavia E. Butler #BlackBookSky #BlackSky #Blackademics #BookSky #DiverseBooks

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Jeremy R. Smith @en-demic.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I don’t know if I shared it, but here’s my dissertation from 2023 on Laruelle, non-philosophy, and democracy, "The Cave and the Stars: On the People and Democracy of Non-Philosophy":

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

These teams had a quite interesting panel at Too Mad to Be True, esp the part by Thelke Scholz & Samuel Thoma: Istvan Fazakas (et al.) - Panel: Self in Recovery : a phenomenological journey in schizophrenic experiences The recording is available, here: www.psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl/too-mad-to-b...

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Too mad to be true III - Psychiatrie en Filosofie

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This morning we - as a Dutch team - had a nice exchange on participatory research in #psychiatry with the SelfRecovery German/French teams. I presented our 'passible polyphony' (methodological team-reflexivity) paper. I used Shogun to highlight the 'voices' that speak from our own experience.

A scene from Shogun with the English canons demonstrating. Beneath the picture: the quote from the Japanese interpreter 'Tell us about a battle you were actually in yourself'.

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness Conference Review by Joshua Richardson ( @schizosemia.bsky.social ) cc: @jfeyaerts.bsky.social @wtrax.bsky.social www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/too-mad-to...

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Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness

Conference Review by Joshua Richardson

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I feel I should insert small moments of 'taking a break from reading my paper' for the future readers of my Contact / Connectedness paper, because of all the 'existential material' a.k.a. heartbreaking stories of real people loving/losing each other. #PhDlife

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Aldo Houterman @aldohouterman.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Please consider joining our (@sabinewolsink.bsky.social & me) panel on sports, embodiment, religion, and the sacred 👇

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PhenoLab @phenolab.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Deadline approaching for the cfp of the 2nd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria!! January 15 2025 📌🗓 "Phenomenology in mental health. Transdisciplinary approaches and qualitative research" When: June 9-13, 2025 Venue: Palazzo Trinci in Foligno (PG), Umbria Apply!

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Baking 'poffertjes' with the help of a host of metal music makers and related others. "Smoke on the water" threw me back to the time when I (wo)manned the keys (organ) and the backing vocals, in a nice amateur band. Every Thursday I cycled through Maastricht with my keyboard over my shoulder.

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Son walks by and looks at my online game of #chess and says: “I can't stand your nOOb game of chess”. When I explain my elaborate plans, he says “if this, if that - I hear it already, you're playing ‘hope chess.’”

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Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Yes, really beautiful! Our son (10) walked in on me watching this, and now he is sad to be (found) a little too young to watch yet...

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