Here is an interesting article. It takes a different angle than most literature. I'm not sure if I agree to it all but it definitely makes a person think. It states that there is lot more to schizophrenia than just the biological model. Some people even recover without medication.
If you are open to different ideas about schizophrenia give it a read.
Here is the link to the article.
http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?AID=2196
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Although the article is written rather provocatively, the data is sound. I know one doctor quoted in the article. The Montreal clinic where I was an intern last year was a big part of some of the international research on the influence of trauma and racism on the development of psychosis. None of this is actually new to me. It just depends on what you're used to reading, I guess. Some pharmaceutically funded research is only going to give you one angle, but there are many other more comprehensive and realistic points of investigation when discussing the origins of, and implicated treatments for, schizophrenia. There always have been. It just depends on where we've put our funding for research, and that has largely been in the psychopharmacological direction. I'm glad this is emerging in such a prestigious paper though. It may run slightly counter to the psycho-education many of us have received, but I think it's a very positive move in the direction of re-humanizing psychiatry.
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