Articles by Aidan Shingler

Insanity or Enlightenment
I regard the next step in human evolution to be that of enlightenment and my feeling is that schizophrenia is most certainly an expansion of our psychic capacity...

Labelled
In 1978 at the age of nineteen I worked as a chef at St George's Hospital, Tooting, South London. It was whilst working there that I experienced a dramatic shift in consciousness that changed the way in which I apprehended reality...

Odyssey
I was told I would have to take anti-psychotic drugs for the rest of my life. It is conceivable that had I accepted this literally, I would not have experienced subsequent shifts in consciousness...

People in Glass Houses
For years I had been prescribed Haloperidol with appalling side-affects, which were close causing ‘tardive-dyskinesia’ - irreversible and uncontrollable movements of the face, neck, hands and limbs. Now I was experiencing cold turkey, and resisting psychiatric intervention...

Pins and Needles
Psychiatry has a shameful history: deplorably it has carried many aspects of that past into the present...

A Spoonfull of Sugar
It is lamentable that the means and methods by which these drugs are systematically imposed by clinicians gives rise to a profound conflict of interests...