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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34; &#187; &#8220;mental illness&#8221;</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>SAMHSA couldn&#8217;t quite manage to really support full recovery</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2012/01/samhsa-couldnt-quite-manage-to-really-support-full-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAMHSA just came out with a new document called “SAMHSA’s Definition and Guiding Principles of Recovery – Answering the Call for Feedback.”  While the document sounds very positive when read superficially, it seems to me it is still contaminated with the kind of thinking which actually makes it harder for people to achieve a full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t heal when you are calling parts of yourself an &#8220;illness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we think that something inside of ourselves is a &#8220;symptom of an illness&#8221; then we very naturally want to get rid of it.  But what happens when what we are trying to get rid of is actually a vital, if not always helpful, part of ourselves? If you look into the very origin of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hemingway, the FBI, Paranoia, &amp; the Concept of &#8220;Mental Illness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent New York Times article revealed that Ernest Hemingway spent the last year of his life fearing that the FBI was after him, snooping into details of his life&#8230;..and they really were doing that. But, as in many cases, they weren&#8217;t doing as much as he suspected they were; he even ended up suspecting [...]]]></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>Recovery: Why is it being redefined to mean “doing better but still mentally ill”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of efforts to transform an often oppressive mental health have focused on “recovery” and making the mental health system more “recovery focused.” Many agencies have integrated the notion of recovery into their practice, and if the use of this word were a measure of progress, we would be well on our way to [...]]]></description>
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