Dr. Ivor Browne on Happiness, Mental Illness, Consciousness, Insanity, Healing and Real Change

Summary: <br> <p style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);">He tells us:</span></p><br> <p style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);"><a id="more-6565430"></a></span></p><br> <p style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);"><strong>✓ How <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">Seeking Happiness</span> is the Sure Way <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">Not To Be Happy</span>. </strong></span></p><br> <p style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);"><strong>✓ How One of <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">The Root Causes of Mental Illness</span> is Lack of <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">Love of the Self<span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);">.</span> </span></strong></span></p><br> <p style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);"><strong>✓ How We Are on The Verge of <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">Real Break Throughs</span> with The <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">Expansion of Consciousness</span>. </strong></span></p><br> <p style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);"><strong>✓ How the <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">Definition of Insanity</span> is Doing The Same Thing Over and Over Again and <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">Expecting a Different Result</span>. </strong></span></p><br> <p style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);"><strong>✓ How <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">Weeping and Crying</span> Are Actually One of The <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">Ways We Heal</span>. </strong></span></p><br> <p style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);"><strong>✓ And How <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">No Real Change </span>Can Happen Until Each Person <span style="color: rgb(255,102,0);">Works on Themselves</span>. </strong></span></p><br> <div style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);"><strong>Dr. <strong>Ivor Browne</strong> </strong>is a retired Irish psychiatrist, author, former Chief Psychiatrist of the Eastern Health Board, and Professor emeritus of psychiatry at University College Dublin. He is known for his opposition to traditional psychiatry, and his scepticism about psychiatric drugs.</span></div><br> <div style="color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <br> <p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);">As Chief Psychiatrist for the Eastern Health Board Ivor tried to reform the Irish mental health system but faced enormous opposition from those who couldn't accept his unorthodox methods. He mistrusted traditional psychiatry's dependence on drugs; </span></p> <br> <p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,128);">It was Ivor who stood by Ross Hamilton and his mother Phyllis when Fr. Michael Cleary's family, friends and Church abandoned them and refused to believe they were Cleary's family. Ross calls him 'a life saver'. "If he didn't speak out for us back then maybe no one would have taken us seriously at all." Ivor suffered the consequences from the Medical Council for taking such a stand.</span></p> </div><br> <p style=""></p>