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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34; &#187; Mental health</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>Two Kinds of Risk, but the Mental Health System Only Acknowledges One:</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I pointed out at a recent mental health system meeting in my county, people with mental health problems face two kinds of risks. 
The first sort of risk is from the mental health problem itself.  Unless the person finds effective treatment, mental health problems can often cause high distress, disability, and even result in death, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voice, Choice, and Human Rights in Mental Health Care</title>
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		<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>The role of consumer empowerment in mental health recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note:  The document below is just a part of the proposed consumer empowerment guidelines for Lane County.  I'm posting this separately here, because it is the part of the document that would be of most general interest.]
Recovery from many kinds of problems is affected by beliefs about the possibility of recovery.  Consider a hypothetical example [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems with an &#8220;early intervention in psychosis&#8221; program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note, this is a very old post, and at least many of the problems reported with the EAST program no longer exist, as they have been open to making some changes.  This post however does still describe problems that exist with many suppposedly &#8220;progressive&#8221; programs which really still follow an excessively narrow and inaccurate &#8220;medical [...]]]></description>
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