| Dr.
Aine Tubridy qualified in medicine from University
College Dublin, Ireland in 1977. Her interest focussed on
mind-body medicine in the late 1980’s when she received
her Masters degree in Psychotherapy, and studied biofeedback
and brainwave training in the Menninger Institute in Kansas
USA. A sustained interest in helping patients make the connection
between their thought patterns and their subsequent symptoms
has led her to become involved in cardiac rehabilitation and
anxiety disorders in particular. To this end she has led training
days, workshops and given public lectures for many years,
always with the agenda of demedicalising fear and it’s
manifestations, and offering independence from medication
through directly influencing consciousness and changing lifestyle.
Dr. Michael
Corry qualified in medicine from University College
Dublin, Ireland in 1973. He achieved higher qualifications
in obstetrics, paediatrics, and worked as a volunteer doctor
in Africa. He commenced his psychiatric studies in 1978 and
trained as a constructivist psychotherapist. His interest
in psychosis and altered states of consciousness developed
from his work in St. Brendan’s Psychiatric Hospital,
Dublin. He developed and directed the demonstration re-socialisation
pilot project of Europe which focussed on the rehabilitation
of long-stay institutionalised patients, teaching them the
required social and living skills to function in the community.
As consultant psychiatrist to the Rehabilitation
Institute, he championed the cause of integrating the psychiatric
patient with the physically disabled, entitling them to the
same educational, vocational training programmes. In 1987
he was appointed consultant psychiatrist to Clane General
Hospital.
In 1988 he co-founded the Institute of Psychosocial
Medicine whose ethos embodies a mind-body-spirit approach
to psychological distress. He endeavours to give psychiatry
it’s true meaning (psyche meaning soul and iatriea meaning
healing) by seeing each individual as a subjective spiritual
being on a personal journey. This position places awareness
and choice as central, with the power to change beliefs, behaviours,
feelings and ultimately ways of living.
The book "Going Mad? – Understanding
Mental Illness" which he co-authored with Dr. Aine Tubridy
is a product of his ongoing passion to see psychological distress
explored in new ways. It draws on the life-force as mediated
through the chakra system, and places the patient at the centre
of their own healing, liberating sufferers from seeing their
illness as a purely chemical event. They are currently writing
the sequel "Into Sanity – Healing Mental
|
