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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>Listening for the Truth Within Talk that Sounds Delusional: a Key Yet Rare Mental Health Method</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2012/01/listening-for-the-truth-within-delusional-beliefs-a-key-yet-rare-mental-health-method/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Lehrman, M.D. recently posted his story of how he became psychotic, how he was treated, and then how he recovered despite the fact that much of his treatment was misguided.  This story provides some good insight into some of the dynamics that are common in the way our mental health system, which is supposed [...]]]></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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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Madness and Mystery</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/07/madness-and-mystery/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/07/madness-and-mystery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[madness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a book called &#8220;Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God&#8221; by Isabel Clarke. Isabel Clarke is a psychological therapist, at home in her work with the experience of people diagnosed with psychosis and other severe mental health problems. Familiarity with their experience, together with a knowledge of the spiritual literature and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Two Important Conferences Coming Up</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/07/two-important-conferences-coming-up/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/07/two-important-conferences-coming-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[INTAR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISPS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Registration is now open for the ISPS-US Twelfth Annual Meeting: Beyond Pandora&#8217;s Box: Exploring Integrative Approaches to Treating Psychosis October 14-16th, 2011 Location:  San Francisco, CA Keynote Speaker Richard Bentall, Ph.D. Author of Madness Explained and Doctoring the Mind &#8220;The Psychology of Paranoid Delusions &#8220; Honoree Ann-Louise Silver, M.D. Founding President, ISPS-US.  &#8220;Early Onset Psychosis: Do We [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hope and Personal Effort as Key to Recovery</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/05/hope-and-personal-effort-as-key-to-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/05/hope-and-personal-effort-as-key-to-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 17:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eleanor Longden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing voices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery from psychosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery from schizophrenia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years I&#8217;ve been very impressed whenever I have heard parts of Eleanor Longden&#8217;s story.  Recently I obtained a video of her telling her story in detail, and I was even more impressed. Her story is amazing partly I think just because she is so articulate:  she really knows how to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>When trying to get off drugs leads to more drugs</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/04/when-trying-to-get-off-drugs-leads-to-more-drugs/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/04/when-trying-to-get-off-drugs-leads-to-more-drugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[antipsychotic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When people are trying to get off neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medications, they often run into a problem like the following. The medication is reduced, then some kind of scary problem emerges, and then the person finds they must go to an even higher dose of medication than they were previously on in order to bring the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>A few proposed principles for a balanced psychiatrist</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/04/a-few-proposed-principles-for-a-balanced-psychiatrist/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/04/a-few-proposed-principles-for-a-balanced-psychiatrist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alternatives]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[role of psychiatrist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schizophrenia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=539</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Common Dynamics in Psychosis and Revolution</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/03/common-dynamics-in-psychosis-and-revolution-2/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/03/common-dynamics-in-psychosis-and-revolution-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychosis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given the recent events in the Middle East, it&#8217;s an interesting time to think about revolution. One pattern often seen in revolutions is where when the uprising first breaks out, there is tremendous relief, a huge upsurge in hope, etc. In the best cases, things work out from there, maybe all the hopes don&#8217;t get [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Evidence That Long Term Reliance On Antipsychotic Medication May Impair Recovery</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/05/new-evidence-that-long-term-reliance-on-antipsychotic-medication-may-impair-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/05/new-evidence-that-long-term-reliance-on-antipsychotic-medication-may-impair-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 18:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=370</guid>
		<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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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Problems when antipsychotics interfere with the ability to  anticipate threat</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/03/problems-when-antipsychotics-interfere-with-the-ability-to-anticipate-threat/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/03/problems-when-antipsychotics-interfere-with-the-ability-to-anticipate-threat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=342</guid>
		<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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