Reframing Mental Illness: Neurodiversity and a new road to recovery
“Neurodiversity may be every bit as crucial for the human race as biodiversity is for life in general.”
– Harvey Blume[I] Reading through the 2nd Edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness[ii], what strikes me is the fact that there is an entire section devoted to altered states of consciousness. This includes chapters on drug induced states, mindfulness, dreaming, psychopathology (symptoms of mental illness) and other anomalous experiences such as near death and ou