Promoting innovative approaches for “psychosis” & exploring connections w/ trauma, dissociation & spirituality https://xitter.cf/t.co/WCrrku8zed
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Zionism definition:
The belief that Jews should have an autonomous place on their ancestral homeland.
Two questions:
1. Why aren’t you a Zionist?
2. Is there any other indigenous people you think shouldn’t have a home, or is it just the Jews?
A free guide to how to do therapy with people who struggle with both trauma and psychosis has just been published. This is the approach used in the very successful STAR research study. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Lots of therapists give up when their clients become paranoid, hear voices, etc., but research shows CBT for psychosis can offer real help. On 11/6/26 I’ll be offering a 4 hour online overview of this approach, CE credit, only $59 if registered by 10/16. ron-unger-lcsw.ce-go.com/an-…
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NEXT WEEK!
Join us Tuesday, October 13, at 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT, 5:00pm GMT, 6:00pm CEST for a special panel, New Possibilities: Clinicians and Voice Hearers Reimagine Support Together, hosted by @ronunger. #mentalhealth
Register here:
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John Read is always worth listening to! He's done a great job of using research and logic to inspire a rethinking of our mental health paradigms.
Yep. We talked about this “neuroprotective” myth with Professor @ReadReadj in one of the episodes in a series we created together.
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Beyond “What’s Wrong With You?”: Rethinking Psychiatric Diagnosis Through Personal Narrative
By Richard Sears
The Personal Narrative Model puts lived experience and meaning at the center of mental health, but can a different approach survive?
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📽️ The recordings of the keynote speakers from the ISPS 2026 Lausanne are available
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#isps2026
#ispsinternational
#psychosis
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A study from Israel shows non-coercive, community-based care that minimizes psychiatric drug use is linked to lower likelihood and of readmission as well as longer times between discharge and readmission compared to traditional inpatient treatment.
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NEW @Mad_In_America EVENT! Join us Tuesday, October 13, at 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT, 5:00pm GMT, 6:00pm CEST for a special panel, New Possibilities: Clinicians and Voice Hearers Reimagine Support Together, hosted by @ronunger.
Register here:
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Most philosophers prefer to keep madness at a safe distance. But to Wouter Kusters, the relationship is uncomfortably close: "Theoretical reflections have their practical counterpart in the breakdown of the mad." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/i…
ALT An illustration of a man looking at a knot of yarn spilling from his brain. Headline: Is Madness Philosophy in Practice? Subheading: Great thinkers have long kept psychosis at a safe distance. But those asking the biggest questions may find it uncomfortably close. By Wouter Kusters
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The ODESSI trial is finally published.
The headline findings are:
The odds of being admitted to hospital for severe mental illness was three times less for those who had Open Dialogue compared to standard care, reducing the use of hospital by 54%.
The chance of being referred to a crisis service was halved for those who had Open Dialogue compared to standard care.
Patient-defined recovery (people's rating of their own relationships, work, study and other self-rated markers of recovery) improved for those who had Open Dialogue compared to standard care.
There was no statistically significant difference in the time it took to relapse in the Open
Dialogue arm of the trial compared with standard care.
Overall quality of life was improved for those who had Open Dialogue compared to standard care.
Patient experience & rating of the care they received was higher for those who had Open Dialogue compared to standard care.
Taken from RCPsych reporting (link below)
Link to BBC article also below.
Congrats to Profs Razzaque and Pilling
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Grateful for @JoannaMoncrieff’s incisive review of The Madness Pill for @PsychToday: “the story of brilliant minds being side-tracked by an enticing solution to a complex problem that…was ‘clear, simple and wrong.’”
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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The Ward and the Vanishing ‘I’: How Psychiatric Wards Silence Testimony
By Amit Saraf
madintheuk.com/2026/07/the-w…
#MentalHealth #Psychiatry #TraumaInformed #PatientVoices #HumanRights
A new video explores how to help people who hear voices that urge suicide: youtube.com/watch?v=E9hIpYJN…
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Study shows prevalence of dementia among people with schizophrenia is a staggering 28% at age 66 vs 1.3% in 'controls'. Antipsychotics and other medications suggested as possible cause jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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How Can Soccer Coaching Help People Who Hear Voices?
By Rufus May & Kate Quinn
Through mapping out their voices and supporting voice hearers to talk constructively with their voices, voice hearers can live with their voices in more positive ways.
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Nobody Told Me to Do This: What It Means to Be a Dissident Psychiatrist
By Rupinder Legha, MD
The more honestly I have reckoned with my own story—warts and all—the more capable and responsible I have become of understanding the suffering of others.
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Where Psychedelics Meet Madness: Intersections, Lessons and a Call for Transformative Research Agendas
By Tam Martin Fowles
When I had my “psychotic” experience, I longed for someone to ask me the questions included in the Ego-Dissolution Inventory.
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Mental health professionals are often afraid to address trauma when people are also having experiencing psychosis, but new research proves even more strongly that it is safe and helpful to do so thelancet.com/journals/lanps…
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Beyond Medication: What England’s Experience Can Teach Us About Psychosis Care
By Alison Brabban
For over 20 years, NICE in England has recommended that people experiencing psychosis should be offered psychological therapy—not simply medication alone.
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