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Thanks to Iskra Fileva for inviting me to contribute to her Philosopher's Diaries on Psychology Today: Should we stop talking about #delusions? https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-philosophers-diaries/202410/should-we-stop-talking-about-delusions
(1/5) This is a recent article by one of the leaders of the Open Dialogue approach. Key quotes:
"Instead of looking at psychotic behavior as a deviance in the (brain) structure, it can be seen as an active attempt of the embodied mind to survive extreme stress in one’s life”
My story of trying to bring psychotic experience & clinical psychology together; in this Moth stories episode; Fear Factor. Mine is the last story about 39 minutes in... https://beta.prx.org/stories/340047 via @prx
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.