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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34; &#187; recovery</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>New Evidence That Long Term Reliance On Antipsychotic Medication May Impair Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 18:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Many of you have probably been aware of two prior World Health Organization (WHO) studies that showed almost twice the recovery rates from &#8220;schizophrenia&#8221; in developing countries as in developed countries.  While critics of current psychiatric practice attributed the better outcome in developing countries to the fact that most were not on medication, others suggested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems when antipsychotics interfere with the ability to  anticipate threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Bentall, in his book Doctoring the Mind: Is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? describes how researchers first noticed and tested the properties of the medications that later became known as “antipsychotic.”  The procedure was fairly simple.  They first exposed rats to an electric shock applied to the floor of their [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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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>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>RonUnger</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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