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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34; &#187; early intervention</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>Giving Antipsychotics to people just diagnosed with psychosis is NOT an evidence based practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost everywhere in the world, programs set up to do early intervention in psychosis rush to start people on antipsychotics.  This is widely seen to be an evidence based practice:  in fact, it is thought that the evidence is so strong, it would be unethical to withhold the drugs. Many of us are aware that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few proposed principles for a balanced psychiatrist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychiatrists working within our current mental health system often complain they have no choice other than to practice as they do, which usually involves, for example, prescribing neuroleptics, otherwise called &#8220;antipsychotics&#8221; for everyone who seems to be having symptoms of &#8220;psychosis.&#8221; I recently wrote down some principles I believe a psychiatrist could follow even while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Help or Aggressive Marketing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 03:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My county, Lane County, Oregon, is one of a number of places around the country just starting to participate in a new &#8220;early intervention&#8221; program sponsored by NIMH, called RAISE, that says it aims to help people soon after they begin experiencing their first psychotic episode.  While there are some good reasons to offer help to [...]]]></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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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</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 [...]]]></description>
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