What if psychiatry recognized thatĀ schizophrenia does not exist? How mightĀ diagnostic categories (left over from the asylum era)Ā beĀ replaced byĀ spectrums of experience that show how psychotic experiences can also beĀ normal?Ā What if services were oriented around individuals, not the statistical groups of āevidence basedā research? And could a new definition of health as empowerment, notĀ the absence of disease symptoms, replaceĀ the mental health system as we know it?
Jim van Os,Ā professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at Maastricht University and member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science with more than 700 publications, is one of the top one percent highly cited scientists in the world.Ā His researchĀ combines with theĀ experiential knowledge of people with lived experience of psychosis to envision a radically new direction for the mental health system.
http://www.madnessradio.net/files/SchizophreniaDoesNotExist-vanOs-BMJ.pdfĀ http://www.madnessradio.net/files/HuberHowShouldWeDefineHealthbmjd4163.pdf
http://www.brown.uk.com/schizophrenia/rossler.pdf
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
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