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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34; &#187; Schizophrenia</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>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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		<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>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>RonUnger</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>1</slash:comments>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[antipsychotic medication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[RAISE]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=366</guid>
		<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>Two Kinds of Risk, but the Mental Health System Only Acknowledges One:</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/04/two-kinds-of-risk-but-the-mental-health-system-only-acknowledges-one/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/04/two-kinds-of-risk-but-the-mental-health-system-only-acknowledges-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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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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		<slash:comments>9</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>RonUnger</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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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>The role of consumer empowerment in mental health recovery</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/10/the-role-of-consumer-empowerment-in-mental-health-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/10/the-role-of-consumer-empowerment-in-mental-health-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[empowerment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[informed consent]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>1</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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		<category><![CDATA[cognitive therapy]]></category>
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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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		<category><![CDATA["brain shrinkage"]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Recovery: Why is it being redefined to mean “doing better but still mentally ill”?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/08/recovery-why-is-it-being-redefined-to-mean-%e2%80%9cdoing-better-but-still-mentally-ill%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/08/recovery-why-is-it-being-redefined-to-mean-%e2%80%9cdoing-better-but-still-mentally-ill%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["mental illness"]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=194</guid>
		<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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