#PDF Support

[trans-axolotl]

also in regards to that last article about varied ways of thinking about psychosis/altered states that don't just align with medical model or carceral psychiatry---I always love sharing about Bethel House and their practices of peer support for schizophrenia that are founded on something called tojisha kenkyu, but I don't see it mentioned as often as things like HVN and Soteria House.

ID: [A colorful digital drawing of a group of people having a meeting inside a house while it snows outside.]

"What really set the stage for tōjisha-kenkyū were two social movements started by those with disabilities. In the 1950s, a new disability movement was burgeoning in Japan, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that those with physical disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, began to advocate for themselves more actively as tōjisha. For those in this movement, their disability is visible. They know where their discomfort comes from, why they are discriminated against, and in what ways they need society to change. Their movement had a clear sense of purpose: make society accommodate the needs of people with disabilities. Around the same time, during the 1970s, a second movement was started by those with mental health issues, such as addiction (particularly alcohol misuse) and schizophrenia. Their disabilities are not always visible. People in this second movement may not have always known they had a disability and, even after they identify their problems, they may remain uncertain about the nature of their disability. Unlike those with physical and visible disabilities, this second group of tōjisha were not always sure how to advocate for themselves as members of society. They didn’t know what they wanted and needed from society. This knowing required new kinds of self-knowledge.

As the story goes, tōjisha-kenkyū emerged in the Japanese fishing town of Urakawa in southern Hokkaido in the early 2000s. It began in the 1980s when locals who had been diagnosed with psychiatric disorders created a peer-support group in a run-down church, which was renamed ‘Bethel House’. The establishment of Bethel House (or just Bethel) was also aided by the maverick psychiatrist Toshiaki Kawamura and an innovative social worker named Ikuyoshi Mukaiyachi. From the start, Bethel embodied the experimental spirit that followed the ‘antipsychiatry’ movement in Japan, which proposed ideas for how psychiatry might be done differently, without relying only on diagnostic manuals and experts. But finding new methods was incredibly difficult and, in the early days of Bethel, both staff and members often struggled with a recurring problem: how is it possible to get beyond traditional psychiatric treatments when someone is still being tormented by their disabling symptoms? Tōjisha-kenkyū was born directly out of a desperate search for answers.

In the early 2000s, one of Bethel’s members with schizophrenia was struggling to understand who he was and why he acted the way he did. This struggle had become urgent after he had set his own home on fire in a fit of anger. In the aftermath, he was overwhelmed and desperate. At his wits’ end about how to help, Mukaiyachi asked him if perhaps he wanted to kenkyū (to ‘study’ or ‘research’) himself so he could understand his problems and find a better way to cope with his illness. Apparently, the term ‘kenkyū’ had an immediate appeal, and others at Bethel began to adopt it, too – especially those with serious mental health problems who were constantly urged to think about (and apologise) for who they were and how they behaved. Instead of being passive ‘patients’ who felt they needed to keep their heads down and be ashamed for acting differently, they could now become active ‘researchers’ of their own ailments. Tōjisha-kenkyū allowed these people to deny labels such as ‘victim’, ‘patient’ or ‘minority’, and to reclaim their agency.

Tōjisha-kenkyū is based on a simple idea. Humans have long shared their troubles so that others can empathise and offer wisdom about how to solve problems. Yet the experience of mental illness is often accompanied by an absence of collective sharing and problem-solving. Mental health issues are treated like shameful secrets that must be hidden, remain unspoken, and dealt with in private. This creates confused and lonely people, who can only be ‘saved’ by the top-down knowledge of expert psychiatrists. Tōjisha-kenkyū simply encourages people to ‘study’ their own problems, and to investigate patterns and solutions in the writing and testimonies of fellow tōjisha.

Self-reflection is at the heart of this practice. Tōjisha-kenkyū incorporates various forms of reflection developed in clinical methods, such as social skills training and cognitive behavioural therapy, but the reflections of a tōjisha don’t begin and end at the individual. Instead, self-reflection is always shared, becoming a form of knowledge that can be communally reflected upon and improved. At Bethel House, members found it liberating that they could define themselves as ‘producers’ of a new form of knowledge, just like the doctors and scientists who diagnosed and studied them in hospital wards. The experiential knowledge of Bethel members now forms the basis of an open and shared public domain of collective knowledge about mental health, one distributed through books, newspaper articles, documentaries and social media.

Tōjisha-kenkyū quickly caught on, making Bethel House a site of pilgrimage for those seeking alternatives to traditional psychiatry. Eventually, a café was opened, public lectures and events were held, and even merchandise (including T-shirts depicting members’ hallucinations) was sold to help support the project. Bethel won further fame when their ‘Hallucination and Delusion Grand Prix’ was aired on national television in Japan. At these events, people in Urakawa are invited to listen and laugh alongside Bethel members who share stories of their hallucinations and delusions. Afterwards, the audience votes to decide who should win first prize for the most hilarious or moving account. One previous winner told a story about a failed journey into the mountains to ride a UFO and ‘save the world’ (it failed because other Bethel members convinced him he needed a licence to ride a UFO, which he didn’t have). Another winner told a story about living in a public restroom at a train station for four days to respect the orders of an auditory hallucination. Tōjisha-kenkyū received further interest, in and outside Japan, when the American anthropologist Karen Nakamura wrote A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan (2013), a detailed and moving account of life at Bethel House. "

-Japan's Radical Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis by Satsuki Ayaya and Junko Kitanaka

[wolfhidewinter]

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[dicenete]

My sketchbook 2024 is now live! You can buy it for 10€ from my Ko-Fi shop :3

INFO: A 88 page (44 spreads) pdf, a collection of digital sketches from 2024!

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[alexsiple]

postcard for a hq latino zine :-) i drew them visiting venezuela jeje

[lizardson]

people spreading the pirated version of tsc are driving me crazy its 99 cents I will literally buy it for you

[scribble-dee-vee]

Everyone needs to get a library card NAOW, you can find a clip of some cool philosophy text that is paywalled everywhere online and then put a hold on it INSTANTLY for FREE

[seeminglydark]

THE PDF VERSION IS FINALLY HERE! (click for the link)

For those were were asking, here it is (i hope, still not great at this pdf thing ha but in theory)

Queer horror/romance **This is a PDF Digital Version of the comic, you will not receive a physical copy**

Presenting my 90+ page, full-color graphic novel, Mil-Liminal: Lost and Found! This is part one of my comic series, Mil-Liminal, featuring my characters John and Caro! You can check out parts of the comic on Tapas and Webtoon, if you’d like an intro to it. The book has more content and is the full arc thats begun in the webcomic version, but if you dont know much about my stories or characters, the webtoon is a great place to start.

Summery: Hopeless romantic Jonathan O’Sullivan struggles to find his place in his charismatic partners fast-paced life. Superstar Caro Greene, Voice of the smash-hit horror podcast Mil-Liminal, is always on the move, and Johnny is finding it harder and harder to keep up. Can he figure out a way to pull himself out of the background of Caro’s life, all while dodging the supernatural trouble that follows Caro wherever they go?

Mil-Liminal is a horror-based love story about two people learning to compromise, long distance relationships, and balancing the ghosts of their past with the demons of their present to try and make their romance work. In part One, Lost and Found we learn about John and Caro’s turbulent teenage past, and their re-connection 7 years later, the maybe not-so-great ways they function around each other, and how both of them just might be more than they seem. Are these star-crossed lovers truly meant to be? Or is the wedge between them too much to bear?

Trigger warnings: mild body horror, brief partial nudity, instances of violence and verbal and physical abuse

[alexsiple]

my piece for a hq latine zine :-) a reunion!

[officrnolen]

starting the first book of the locked tomb series because i need to see what my friends are into or ill curl up and die

[macbcth]

am i really about to switch from google play books to kindle today as my reading program of choice holy shit

[priteshwemarketresearch]

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[arcade-confetti]

I was going to read arsène lupin on my book app but my library card needs to be renewed. Crying screaming turning into dust emoji

[allcheers-allfears]

got Trace Memory from the library as a treat:3

[vollcorte]

hello, I have published a short story. If you are interested in reading, you can get it for free on my Ko-fi, it's only 14 pages.

tittle: "Re:fly"

synopsis: a fly killed and turned into a man...

thank you.

https://ko-fi.com/s/7a9c035e40

[frobby]

I hate that disabled people need to be diagnosed to ask for accomodation. Accomodation should be available to everyone not just groups that *Need* it because if something makes someones life easier it should be available to them whether or not some doctor says its okay.

[littlestsnicket]

eeee!!