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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34; &#187; psychosis</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>Double bind in reponse to trauma</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/09/double-bind-in-reponse-to-trauma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the immediately preceding post, I wrote that:
Where do all the distortions that are common to what we see as psychosis come from?  That’s the question I took on in a short series of PowerPoint slides that I created this morning.  In these slides, I suggest that these distortions come about out of attempts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living in a world of your own:  an illness, or a key talent?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/living-in-a-world-of-your-own-an-illness-or-a-key-talent/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/08/living-in-a-world-of-your-own-an-illness-or-a-key-talent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=408</guid>
		<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>Vigilance-Avoidance can lead to trouble, and what to do about it.</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/07/vigilance-avoidance-can-lead-to-trouble-and-what-to-do-about-it/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/07/vigilance-avoidance-can-lead-to-trouble-and-what-to-do-about-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[avoidance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time down by the river today, alternating between reading and swimming, and learned a new concept (and a term to go with it) that I thought I would share with you.  I was reading &#8220;Cognitive perspectives on dissociation and psychosis: Differences in the processing of threat?&#8221;  by Dorahy &#38; Green, from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Containing opposites, spirits, and &#8220;schizophrenia&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/07/containing-opposites-spirits-and-schizophrenia/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/07/containing-opposites-spirits-and-schizophrenia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[borderline personality disorder]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Schizophrenia” can be seen as revolving around having difficulty in containing opposites, such as love and aggression.  In normal everyday culture, opposites are often contained simply by pretending they aren’t there and aren’t supposed to be there, while “under the table” they are allowed to coexist.  In other words, hypocrisy is the rule.  Those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Help or Aggressive Marketing?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/05/early-help-or-aggressive-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/05/early-help-or-aggressive-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 03:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</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>US Government Website Exonerates Child Molesters</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/02/us-government-website-exonerates-child-molesters/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/02/us-government-website-exonerates-child-molesters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=335</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>From witch doctors to Open Dialog:  lots of stuff is better than relying on drugs</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/02/from-witch-doctors-to-open-dialog-lots-of-stuff-is-better-than-relying-on-drugs/</link>
		<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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		<category><![CDATA[early intervention]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=330</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=324</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mental &#8220;disorder&#8221; or evolved mental strategy?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/09/mental-disorder-or-evolved-mental-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/09/mental-disorder-or-evolved-mental-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=223</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>What can be done if both psychosis, and antipsychotic medications, are likely to shrink brains and kill people?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/08/what-can-be-done-if-both-psychosis-and-antipsychotic-medications-are-likely-to-shrink-brains-and-kill-people/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/08/what-can-be-done-if-both-psychosis-and-antipsychotic-medications-are-likely-to-shrink-brains-and-kill-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the attempt to convince people to take medications, the hazards of such medications are often minimized or overlooked. While many people may truly be better off taking some medications, at least for awhile, the danger in hiding the hazards of the drugs is that rational decisions about how long to stay on medications, at [...]]]></description>
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