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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34;</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>US Government Website Exonerates Child Molesters</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/02/us-government-website-exonerates-child-molesters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great deal of research shows that one of the more common effects of child sexual abuse is &#8220;auditory hallucinations&#8221; or hearing voices and other experiences which tend to get diagnosed as &#8220;schizophrenia.  Yet, the US federal government, on an official website, assists mental health workers in telling people diagnosed with schizophrenia that nothing anyone did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From witch doctors to Open Dialog:  lots of stuff is better than relying on drugs</title>
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		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/02/from-witch-doctors-to-open-dialog-lots-of-stuff-is-better-than-relying-on-drugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article titled &#8220; Effects of Culture on Recovery From Transient Psychosis&#8221; the author asks why premodern cultures studied by the World Health Organization had 10 times the rate of acute onset psychosis followed by full recovery as that found in more modern cultures.
The author contends that &#8220;Traditional treatment in a premodern society usually consists of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empathy, love, and facing life directly</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/02/empathy-love-and-facing-life-directly/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/02/empathy-love-and-facing-life-directly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People often become psychotic because they face a problem or set of problems that appears overwhelming to them.  Then what happens is they get tricked into thinking that the &#8220;psychosis&#8221; is their primary problem, when really the primary problem is their difficulty in facing their original problems in a direct way. 
So for example, people will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does society really want creativity?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/01/does-society-really-want-creativity/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/01/does-society-really-want-creativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written elsewhere about links between creativity and psychosis.  In a recent blog entry, Gianna Kali of &#8220;BeyondMeds&#8221; links to an article describing how teachers in schools all say they seek to encourage creativity, yet their favorite students all tend to be those who show traits incompatible with creativity &#8211; those who are good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voice, Choice, and Human Rights in Mental Health Care</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/01/voice-choice-and-human-rights-in-mental-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/01/voice-choice-and-human-rights-in-mental-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King often made the point that it is better NOT to be &#8220;adjusted&#8221; to injustice, and that psychologists often over-emphasize the value of &#8220;adjustment.&#8221;  He even called for the establishment of a group to champion &#8220;creative maladjustment.&#8221;  In a talk later broadcast on public radio in Eugene Oregon, three activists including myself talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collection of handouts on CBT for Psychosis, Trauma &amp; Psychosis</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/11/collection-of-handouts-on-cbt-for-psychosis-trauma-psychosis/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/11/collection-of-handouts-on-cbt-for-psychosis-trauma-psychosis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a collection of handouts I&#8217;ve given out at seminars I give on CBT for Psychosis and Trauma and Psychosis.  Just today I put these all on the web &#8211; well some are just web links anyway, others are stuff I&#8217;ve written.  You can access them all here.
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		<title>How exactly does trauma cause &#8220;schizophrenia&#8221;?  A revised double bind theory</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/11/how-exactly-does-trauma-cause-schizophrenia-a-revised-double-bind-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/11/how-exactly-does-trauma-cause-schizophrenia-a-revised-double-bind-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A double bind was originally thought of as something that happens in communication, especially parent-child communication, where a person gets two contradictory messages, and is also prevented from commenting on the contradiction.  As described in the double bind entry in Wikipedia, &#8220;this creates a situation in which a successful response to one message implicates a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>The role of &#8220;accepting differences&#8221; in recovery</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/11/the-role-of-accepting-differences-in-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/11/the-role-of-accepting-differences-in-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been corresponding with a woman, let&#8217;s call her Alice, who is concerned about the part of the Eleanor Longden story where Eleanor states that &#8220;Hearing voices is like left-handedness; it&#8217;s a human variation, not open to cure, just coping.&#8221;  Alice pointed out that since some people do find a way to a place where [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Joining in imaginary worlds</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/11/joining-in-imaginary-worlds/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/11/joining-in-imaginary-worlds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was curious about the story linked to below, which talks about how to join a child&#8217;s imaginary world in order to relieve their distress.  This approach matches my own sense of how to work with young kids &#8211; but also, I think, is a good way of working with adults who, when they are overwhelmed, regress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City affirms choice in mental health treatment, including choice of non-drug alternatives, as a human right</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/10/city-affirms-choice-in-mental-health-treatment-including-choice-of-non-drug-alternatives-as-a-human-right/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/10/city-affirms-choice-in-mental-health-treatment-including-choice-of-non-drug-alternatives-as-a-human-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Eugene, Oregon just this evening passed an official resolution affirming that it is a human right for people to have choice in mental health treatment, including choice of non-drug alternatives.  It also affirmed the right to treatment oriented toward complete recovery.
I have special reason to be proud of this resolution, as I [...]]]></description>
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