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 🖤

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

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.

Poetin's third mocking hand

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.

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.

Merry cheesy X-mas everyone!

An ex-patient remembers what his psychiatrist told him: "You, Demba – you’re my friend. You’re going to stay here with me for a while. You’re sick, but you’re not crazy. You have many ideas.

Writing an article section on 'in/appropriate contact', including a vignette about one of my key interlocutors favoring 'anti-social' contact. With a big wink to Herman Milikowski and his #LofDerOnaangepastheid.