Aesthetic Alternatives To Psycho-Coercive Existences

This presentation has an aesthetic orientation. This is a multi-dimensional presentation of items that make alternative experience and alternative life realities possible. These items include -

* Ways of avoiding restrictive and authoritarian methods, institutions, and professional communities.

* Techniques for removing intentionally inflicted panic, hysteria, fear, and instability, with special emphasis on avoiding the loss of personal freedom. Also, techniques for removing paranoia, painful memories, and the perceptive apprehension of radically modern or starkly contrasted future potentials.

* Natural, herbal, and beneficial pharmacopia for actively counteracting the debilitating psycho-physical effects of neuroleptics and other toxic drug treatments.

* Actively exposing and changing the language and effects of psycho-therapy, creating expressive ways of communicating that no longer polarise or restrict human consciousness.

* The realisation of aesthetic realities and existences that transcend the debacle of coercive treatments. This includes a creation of environments that by their realisation, remove and expose the intrusion of dominating effects. The materials of these transformations are derived from ordinary existence. People are encouraged to realise the aesthetic value of their own life experiences, without reference to mental health system labels or treatments. Awe, goodness, extreme beauty, freedom, and attenuation to the local natural environment are just the start of it.

Alternatives Conference '98
Long Beach Sheraton February 12-15, 1998




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