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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>What to do when children hear voices</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/12/what-to-do-when-children-hear-voices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading the book “Children Hearing Voices:  What you need to know and what you can do.”  It is a curious fact that this book is both completely down to earth, common sense and practical, and yet also completely revolutionary in its field.  That it can be these two things at once is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAMI Lies:  A brief analysis of NAMI sponsored misinformation about “schizophrenia”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least as of today, if a person Googles “schizophrenia recovery” the first link that is not an advertisement is to a document titled “Understanding Schizophrenia and Recovery” authored by NAMI.  (I would link to it for your convenience, but I hesitate to do anything that would further increase the Google rankings of a site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why psychosis happens at a young age:  the dark side of creativity!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According the the UK group Mind, &#8220;Schizophrenia seems to affect roughly the same number of men and women. Most people diagnosed with schizophrenia are aged between 18 and 35, with men tending to be diagnosed at a slightly younger age than women.&#8221;  Why? The mainstream mental health system just claims that it is the nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the mental health system have &#8220;negative symptoms?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/09/does-the-mental-health-system-have-negative-symptoms/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/09/does-the-mental-health-system-have-negative-symptoms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[" "negative symptoms"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognitive therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article, &#8220;Form of CBT Can Improve Stubborn Psychosis Symptoms&#8220;, by Mark Moran, it is stated that Patients with schizophrenia having the most severe negative symptoms appear to endorse certain defeatist and asocial beliefs, as well as have low expectations of success or pleasure, characteristics that may be amenable to a form of cognitive-behavioral [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bringing talk about spiritual issues into mental health treatment</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/09/bringing-talk-about-spiritual-issues-into-mental-health-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/09/bringing-talk-about-spiritual-issues-into-mental-health-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, Oct 4th, 2011, from 12 to 1:30, I will talk about “Dialog at the edge of reason:  addressing spiritual issues within treatment for psychosis.”  1.5 hr. NASW Continuing Education Credits –pending.  Meeting Location:  Lane County Mental Health, Eugene OR.  Michael Rogers room (#198).  Free. The LCMH building is across the street from Autzen stadium.  [...]]]></description>
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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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		<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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		<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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		<title>Guide to Changing the Relationship with Voices</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/06/guide-to-changing-the-relationship-with-voices/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/06/guide-to-changing-the-relationship-with-voices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hearing voices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently encountered what seems to me one of the best ever handouts written to summarize how to change one&#8217;s relationship with voices.  Written by Rufus May, the guide simply and coherently explains how to collect objective information about the voices, how to strengthen one&#8217;s own mind so one is more capable of handling them, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could compassionate self talk replace hostile voices?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/05/could-compassionate-self-talk-replace-hostile-voices/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/05/could-compassionate-self-talk-replace-hostile-voices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 23:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a group of people who hear voices the other day about “self compassion” and I noticed something interesting. While just about everyone in the group had problems with voices which were hostile and disparaging, and they were often influenced by these voices into feeling bad about themselves, none of them seemed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Webinar on Dissociation as a common factor in many &#8220;mental disorders&#8221; including psychosis</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/05/webinar-on-dissociation-as-a-common-factor-in-many-mental-disorders-including-psychosis/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/05/webinar-on-dissociation-as-a-common-factor-in-many-mental-disorders-including-psychosis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 04:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my first, very amateur webinar &#8211; this is using software that is just for pre-recorded webinars, if I really get into doing them it&#8217;s best to do them live with software that costs money to use. Understanding Trauma Related Dissociation and Its Role a Wide Variety of Disorders, including Psychosis This is a free [...]]]></description>
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