Richard McLean
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Richard McLean

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Rich is a human-rights awarded artist, autobiographer, an academic, public speaker, musician, wellness advocate, and now runs his own business as an NDIS provider, helping marginalised people with his breadth of life experience to facilitate their further happiness. he has just been tentatively awarded his PhD Doctor of Philosophy pending changes. He has spoken widely in Australia and overseas on 'mental health recovery' and as a wellness advocate from lived experience. From Parliament House in Canberra to outback Australia in Dubbo, all the major Australian TV and Radio outlets and even across the seas to McGill University at the School of Religious and Philosophical studies in Canada, (where he has also exhibited). In addition, his autobiography was translated to Japanese where he has also exhibited. FROM RICH MCLEAN HIMSELF: ‘I have had an extremely lucky yet marginalised life. The best part about it is that is has not been boring!’, says Rich. ‘I have been destitute, homeless, sexually abused as a child, I am a psychiatric survivor and suffered sexual assault, a violent assault where I have been hospitalised and survived drug addiction and I am also a psychiatric survivor. Additionally, I am a suicide survivor and experienced in my life 'non-ordinary reality', that the cult of psychiatry like to identify with DSM’s and labels, but in my PhD, I lent strongly away from the capitalist cult of psychiatry, and towards a more loving place whereby I have reframed my life through the holistic lens of Shamanism. I consider my past discordance a 'sane reaction to an insane deficit world.' However, I consider myself so lucky though; having been creating my whole life and travelling the world. If a compassionate and passionate artists success is measured in the pure volume of creative work and not a capitalist’s idea or ideology of money or fame, I consider myself an incredible runaway success! I’ve survived, and I love who I am; I love helping people! I am so excited to officially launch ‘Grogan the Monster in… What Do You Love?’, with 25% of proceeds going toward the Royal Children's Hospital Banksia Unit, for Child & Adolescent mental health. Its a way I like to give back. I have already raised over $1000 for them, and when I offered to support them in the first instance, the Royal Children’s Hospital was surprised and delighted; because no one had ever fundraised for the Banksia Unit before. (Unlike say cancer research). It is my privilege and honour to do so! I hope I sell a million copies so I can lavishly transform the facilities and support all those marginalised children and adolescents who need to be heard validated loved and valued. If you want to help yourself, then help someone else. My favourite thing is Carl Jung defined 'synchronicity', whereby 'meaningful co-incidence has spiritual meaning. My favourite word at the moment is: 'Apophenia: In psychology, the perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. Apophenia can be a normal phenomenon or an abnormal one, as in paranoid schizophrenia when the patient sees ominous patterns where there are none.' I also believe that 'schizophrenia' is an outdated label that will go down in history, (if we last that long), in the same way, gay people were treated as a disease and it was ok to have slaves. (Even though capitalism makes slaves too). This is the modality from which my essence sees the world.
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