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Full article: “Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum
E. Fuller Torrey questions whether schizophrenia is 'strictly a genetic disease' and comments on all the money wasted pursuing this dogma https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178123006418
I haven't used this account for a while. Pleased to revive it by announcing a terrific paper by my PhD student Wen Shao, showing that the underlying symptom structure of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are v similar. Supports unitary psychosis concept.
John Read is a hero in our field! He's used solid research to uncover so many truths that the mainstream ignored or even actively suppressed.
This is an insightful article about the value of multiple perspectives on the states of mind called "psychosis."
A key problem of psychiatry is we haven’t yet absorbed this lesson: how we respond to the mad experience transforms the nature of that experience and its potential outcomes. If you treat madness like a disease, it *becomes* a disease.
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