Pappillon Village: Towards a more humane psychiatry

By Gabrielle von Bernstorff-Nahat

Pappillon Village is a plea for a more humane Psychiatry.. The introduction makes the plea that psychic and spiritual emergence must be creatively and lovingy integrated into the lives of emergent human beings. For this the author sketches Pappillon Village, a place for the practice of a creative, inventive and humane Psychiatry including Shamanistic soul travel, Prayer and Meditation. This book contains an intensive bibliography together with excerpts from the insightful book Sleeping with the Angels: A Spiritual Journey through Schizophrenia in order to give inside views of someone undergoing spiritual and psychological emergence.

More on non-profit Projects of th author for a more humane psychiatry can be found on the non-profit page of her Homepage: www.gevebe.com

Gabrielle von Bernstorff-Nahat is a writer, Poet, Artist and architecture. Her non-profit work includes being an advocate of a more humane psychiatry. She iis also a Visonary Coach and an Art Coach.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Jan 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9783749477098

Gabrielle von Bernstorff-Nahat

Gabrielle von Bernstorff-Nahat is a painter, poet and architect. She has published numerous poetry, art and architecture books. She lives in the lake Constance region of Switzerland. For more go to her website www.gevebe.com

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Introduction Pappillon Village

Humanity, mother earth and the cosmos are in the age of Aquarias. Looking at the climate crisis and the news on this day, 8. January 2020 you would hardly believe so. But I do. May the fires in Australia subside, may there be peace with Iran, in the Middle East and Africa, may we manage to save Mother Earth and its sentient beings the animals. The Age of Aquarias is one of peace. May it arrive this peace, there are millions and more living towards this goal.

The climate is on fire because our psyche is on fire. We need to appease our fears, hatred and desire to rule over one another, Mother Earth and the Cosmos.

We need a more humane psychiatry. A wise saying says that a country is as good as the treatment of its women. The same could be said of its psychiatric patients.

Life is a journey of the soul. Psychosis are mysterious, they are as C.G. Jung said not the illness, but the work of the psyche at self-healing, the illness went before hand.

Spiritual emergences, psychological emergences are a part of individuation, a life long process which does not always have the face of what our culture refers to as an illness.

In pre-modern cultures, in many traditional societies the psychic person is a wise woman or man, a holy woman or man. Having a psychosis is the opening up of the soul, psyche and spirit to other dimensions. The process is deeply individual and personal. At times psychosis are out