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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34; &#187; creativity</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>Why psychosis happens at a young age:  the dark side of creativity!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According the the UK group Mind, &#8220;Schizophrenia seems to affect roughly the same number of men and women. Most people diagnosed with schizophrenia are aged between 18 and 35, with men tending to be diagnosed at a slightly younger age than women.&#8221;  Why? The mainstream mental health system just claims that it is the nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to go from &#8220;disordered&#8221; to creative</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are learning more about what people labeled with mental disorders like &#8220;schizophrenia&#8221; have in common with people who are creative and successful.  One of the most basic differences between the average &#8220;normal&#8221; person and the average person diagnosed with &#8220;schizophrenia&#8221; has been found to be a difference in &#8220;latent inhibition,&#8221; which can generally be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living in a world of your own:  an illness, or a key talent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<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>Does society really want creativity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</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>Mental &#8220;disorder&#8221; or evolved mental strategy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mental health field currently, when people experience intense anxiety and depression, and when they experience mania and/or psychosis, the experience is understood to be a “disorder” or a “biological dysfunction” that is of no use and should “corrected” by any means that might be effective in doing so.  The most straightforward way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The relationship between two types of creativity, and psychosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 17:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently reviewing an article, (Nettle 2006) (see the abstract below) that makes some really interesting observations that pertain to the relationship between psychosis and creativity. The author explores how “divergent thinking” (which I believe might also be characterized as a loosening of associations) is commonly experienced by poets and artists, while “convergent thinking” [...]]]></description>
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