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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34; &#187; Uncategorized</title>
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	<description>New understandings of the mind and of madness can open new doors to full recovery - thoughts from way outside the straightjacket of the &#34;medical model.&#34;  By Ron Unger LCSW</description>
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		<title>Double bind in reponse to trauma</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/09/double-bind-in-reponse-to-trauma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the immediately preceding post, I wrote that:
Where do all the distortions that are common to what we see as psychosis come from?  That’s the question I took on in a short series of PowerPoint slides that I created this morning.  In these slides, I suggest that these distortions come about out of attempts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The source of positive and negative distortions in psychosis</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/09/what-is-the-source-of-distorted-perceptions-beliefs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where do all the distortions that are common to what we see as psychosis come from?  That’s the question I took on in a short series of PowerPoint slides that I created this morning.  In these slides, I suggest that these distortions come about out of attempts to resolve two kinds of stress.  One type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living in a world of your own:  an illness, or a key talent?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/living-in-a-world-of-your-own-an-illness-or-a-key-talent/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/living-in-a-world-of-your-own-an-illness-or-a-key-talent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["mental illness"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I found a link to a very interesting article on the Beyond Meds site.  The article is called The Creativity Crisis and it documents how creativity is key to a society&#8217;s success, and yet it has been in a decline in the US since about 1990.  The article finds various reasons for this, but one reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy to study short term effects, but the long term is what matters</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/easy-to-study-short-term-effects-but-the-long-term-is-what-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/easy-to-study-short-term-effects-but-the-long-term-is-what-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week ago or so I posted a review of Robert Whitaker&#8217;s book Anatomy of an Epidemic on Amazon.com.  The purpose of doing so was to address what some have seen as a problem of Whitaker relying too much on &#8220;naturalistic&#8221; studies in coming to his conclusion that psychiatric medications are doing more harm than good on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There are lots of ways to change your brain</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/there-are-lots-of-ways-to-change-your-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/there-are-lots-of-ways-to-change-your-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A lot of the hopelessness around &#8220;schizophrenia&#8221; has to do with beliefs that it is rooted in brain differences and so cannot be &#8220;talked away.&#8221; One way of fighting this notion is to talk about neuroplasticity, or how the brain changes itself with experience. As you change how you think and act, your brain changes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distinguishing Mysticism from Psychosis:  Is That the Wrong Idea?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/distinguishing-mysticism-from-psychosis-is-that-the-wrong-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/distinguishing-mysticism-from-psychosis-is-that-the-wrong-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite awhile ago I received, via Twitter, a link to an article that purports to distinguish between mysticism and psychosis, written by a psychiatrist.  I started to write a blog post in response, then I got sidetracked, but the recent discussion on this blog has inspired me to come back to it.
The article asks some very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article on madness and spirituality</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/article-on-madness-and-spirituality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just ran across an interesting article on psychosis and spirituality.  It starts off by pointing out that
&#8220;Psychotic and religious experiences have been associated since the earliest recorded history (Lukoff &#38; Lu, 2005). The Old Testament uses the same term to refer to madness sent by God as a punishment for the disobedient, and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating the latest hype:  can antipsychotic drugs protect your brain?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/evaluating-the-latest-hype-can-antipsychotic-drugs-protect-your-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/evaluating-the-latest-hype-can-antipsychotic-drugs-protect-your-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest way to sell antipsychotic drugs appears to be to tell people that psychosis will damage your brain, and so people need antipsychotic medications to protect those brains.  This claim was recently made by Jeffrey Lieberman on a PBS television show.  Fortunately, Robert Whitaker took some time to analyze the science behind these claims, and you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions you might want to consider before relying (or continuing to rely) on any psychiatric medication</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/07/questions-you-might-want-to-consider-before-relying-or-continuing-to-rely-on-any-psychiatric-medication/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/07/questions-you-might-want-to-consider-before-relying-or-continuing-to-rely-on-any-psychiatric-medication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hazards of psychiatric medications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is a handout I designed to give to people to help them think through whether they really want to try psychiatric medications.  Imagine how mental health treatment might be different if these questions were routinely considered by everyone before psychiatric drugs were prescribed!
Questions you might want to consider before relying (or continuing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vigilance-Avoidance can lead to trouble, and what to do about it.</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/07/vigilance-avoidance-can-lead-to-trouble-and-what-to-do-about-it/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/07/vigilance-avoidance-can-lead-to-trouble-and-what-to-do-about-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[avoidance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hero's journey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paranoia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychosis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time down by the river today, alternating between reading and swimming, and learned a new concept (and a term to go with it) that I thought I would share with you.  I was reading &#8220;Cognitive perspectives on dissociation and psychosis: Differences in the processing of threat?&#8221;  by Dorahy &#38; Green, from the [...]]]></description>
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