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If you don't know the cause of something, just make up a word like "schizophrenia" and identify it as the cause, now you are a knowledgeable professional!
From my @IAI_TV latest piece: “I challenge the assumption that delusional beliefs are marks of compromised agency by default and I do so based on two main arguments.” 1/3
Readers of the JAMA Psychiatry essay are reminded of the assumed “fact” that hereditary factors account for 60% to 80% of the risk for schizophrenia. Our readers are reminded that actual studies have found that these gene variants account for perhaps 2% to 3% of the risk.
Join us for what promises to be an exciting and engaging residential workshop with @ProfDFreeman and @louise_isham
While teaching a seminar I was describing teaching people how to communicate assertively with the voices they hear. Someone questioned that "wouldn't that mean 'attending to internal stimuli?'" We have a weird expectation that people not attend to what is happening inside them!
I think people are often reluctant to return to "normality" because they don't want to leave what they have discovered after going outside the boundaries. So we need to get better at helping people regain access to shared reality without losing access to what they have found.
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