Integral/Holistic view & approach to schizophrenia

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Holocaust Memorial Day: remembering the psychiatric patients who were victims of Nazi persecution -

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/blog...zi-persecution

"We’re all familiar with the horror of the Nazi attempts to annihilate the Jewish population in the 1940s – the Holocaust.

One of the less well-known aspects of Nazi policy was the genocide that included the slaughter of up to 275,0001 psychiatric patients. The majority of them, like me, had a diagnosis of schizophrenia. A further 400,000 people were sterilised on medical grounds.

Nazi persecution

Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis attempted to kill all Jewish people in Europe. This is known as the Holocaust (The Shoah in Hebrew). In addition, the Nazis targeted gypsies, black people, Slavic people, gay people, people with disabilities political opponents and those whose religious beliefs conflicted with Nazi ideology.

This year’s theme for Holocaust Memorial Day is “how can life go on?” It includes remembering past events, encouraging us to consider how we are facing hate today and how we can help people from persecuted groups to ensure that life goes on in the face of hate and persecution.

With these themes in mind, consider some of the arguments used to promote the murderous policy adopted toward psychiatric patients and why we must be aware of the impact this thinking could have now and in the future.

In the 1930s the eugenics movement was well established in the US and UK. The work of Ernst Rüdin and Franz Kallmann reinforced this - they believed that schizophrenia was simply an inherited disease. It became part of the quest for rassenhygiene (racial hygiene), which drove the Holocaust with mass murder at its core.

But this interpretation of the science was by no means the only driver. One early motivation was cutting the cost of care for psychiatric patients. Funding for care decreased as demand increased.2

In 1920, Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche published Permission for the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life. In it, they asked the question “Is there human life [whose] prolongation represents a perpetual loss of value, both for its bearer and for society as a whole?” They answered this by describing patients as “mentally dead”. This argument was repeated in, among others, The Eradication of the Less Valuable from Society.2"

http://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/uselesseaters/

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Morphic Resonance, and Quantum Consciousness Mind Tuning -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj6k0If90tQ

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Chemical or Psychological Psychotherapy?

https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/01...psychotherapy/

"All treatments of mental disorders are about changing something in the brain. Child psychiatrist Sami Timimi has therefore suggested that we call all treatments, including chemical treatment, psychotherapy. We treat the psyche. In everyday language, however, it is only the psychological treatments, we call psychotherapy. Psychological treatments aim to change a brain that does not function normally, back to normal (see the bottom line in the figure).

Chemical psychotherapy is what we usually call psychiatric drugs. They also change the brain, but not back to normal. They create an artificial third state that is neither normal nor the diseased state the patient came from. This creates many problems. Above all, it is a dead end, because you cannot get from this artificially induced state back to normal. There are simply no psychotropic drugs that are capable of this. Their effects are quite unspecific and comprehensive.

Psychological psychotherapy aims to enhance the normal brain functions, thereby creating as normal reactions as possible to the challenges life offers. Many mental disorders involve the patient responding inappropriately to traumas and emotional swings, and it therefore makes sense to teach the patient to think and react more appropriately. It can also make a lot of sense to change the patient’s environment, but this is often overlooked.

Chemical psychotherapy does the opposite. Psychiatric drugs disable a number of important brain functions and can lead to decreased interest in life in general (apathy), withdrawal from social relationships, lack of empathy and care for themselves and others, and at worst emotional numbness. Empathy helps us recognize the suffering we inflict on others through impulsive actions, and thus empathy helps restrain us. 1 A reduction of empathy is one of the mechanisms whereby psychiatric drugs can cause suicide and violence, and at worst homicide.

Psychiatric drugs can lead to loss of important human functions that are associated with motivation, creativity and love. These toxic drug effects on higher brain functions are often interpreted as an “improvement” (the patient is apparently less disturbed or disturbing to staff, family and friends). 2 But they are in fact an expression of brain damage."

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New Guidelines to Define Schizophrenia Response, Resistance

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/873340

"A global expert working group has developed guidelines for defining treatment response and resistance in patients with schizophrenia, something that is desperately needed to guide the next generation of schizophrenia studies.

"Current criteria for treatment response and resistance are highly variable, and many studies did not evaluate adherence, so it is not clear if they are investigating treatment resistance or resistance to treatment," Oliver Howes, MD, PhD, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, United Kingdom, told Medscape Medical News.

"The overall impetus was to come up with criteria that mean researchers and clinicians are all clear that they are talking about the same thing when discussing treatment response and resistance," he explained. "We found that in the past, only 1 in 20 studies used the same criteria, so comparing studies was like comparing apples with oranges. We hope our benchmarks and guidelines will mean we can at last compare apples with apples," said Dr Howes.

"An even bigger issue is that most studies do not check whether people take their treatment as instructed, so it is not clear if patients were treatment resistant or treatment nonadherent. This is a big problem for clinical practice and clinical guidelines, because it makes it difficult to know what the evidence means for your patient," he added."

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ISEPP

http://psychintegrity.org/isepp-mission-statement/

"The International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry, Inc. (ISEPP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization of mental health professionals, physicians, educators, ex-patients and survivors of the mental health system, and their families. We are not affiliated with any political or religious group.

Our mission is to use the standards of scientific inquiry and critical reasoning to address the ethics of psychology and psychiatry. We strive to educate our members and the public about the nature of “mental illness”, the de-humanizing and coercive aspects of many forms of mental health treatment, and the alternative humane ways of helping people who struggle with very difficult life issues. We believe this is essential since one of the most cherished principles in the mental health field is “informed consent”. That means you should be fully and honestly informed about the problems you are experiencing, and the full risks and benefits of any treatment, before making truly voluntary decisions about your care. Our goal is to fully inform you.

At the heart of our critique is the fact that “mental illnesses” are not literal illnesses like diabetes and cancer. Despite popular media portrayal, decades of scientific research have failed to demonstrate any biological pathology that causes “mental illness”. For this reason, they should not be considered medical problems and traditional medical treatment is not a solution. In particular, the only thing psychiatric drugs do is suppress feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. Not only does this prevent people from understanding their problems and making important life changes, these drugs carry with them a whole host of dangerous effects that typically are not explained to the user when prescribing them.

The experience of “mental illness” is a natural human reaction to extraordinary and painful life circumstances. To help those who are experiencing these problems, we advocate various forms of psychotherapy, support groups, self-help programs, and help with employment, education, housing, exercise, nutrition, and other issues of living. We also urge the ruling out of literal diseases that can mimic psychological problems.

Sometimes the biggest form of help comes from just knowing you are not abnormal and there are others willing to listen to you, understand what you are going through, and appreciate you as a fellow human being. The only way to restore one’s humanity is through humanity."

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Published on 8 Oct 2014

Dr Alan Sanderson delivering a lecture to Royal Society of Medicine on the deficiencies of medical psychiatry.

http://www.spiritrelease.org/

http://www.alansanderson.co.uk/

http://www.spiritrelease.com/cases/sandersonprofile.htm

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Alan%20...Psychiatry.pdf

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/sanderson_19_11_03.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ouj4QsvUWE

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What is Spiritual Psychology?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz3GD0EfrbE

Published on 19 Jun 2013

What if instead of humans having Spiritual experiences, we are Souls having human experiences? Watch as Dr. Ron Hulnick shares about the Principles and Practices Spiritual Psychology and how living from this new paradigm can transform your inner and outer experience in everyday life.

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The Story of Transpersonal Psychology Science of the Soul -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvzq63xWCeI

Published on 13 Nov 2013

The definitive documentary history of the Transpersonal Psychology movement. Includes interviews with many of the field's luminaries such as co-founder of the field, Stanislav Grof, as well as Charles T. Tart, Frances Vaughan, James Fadiman, Miles Vich and many others.

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Killing Schizophrenics -

A lot of truth in this article -

https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/02...zi-psychiatry/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/...zi-psychiatry/

"In any society that prioritizes economic efficiency, productivity and order above life and all of life’s varieties, people experiencing altered and extreme emotional states will be seen as defective and as burdens—monkey wrenches that disturb the societal assembly line.

To be clear, contemporary American society is not Nazi-German society when it comes to treating people labeled with “serious mental illness,” as it is taboo in American society to directly murder this population as was done in Nazi Germany. But in the United States in the earlier part of the twentieth century, there was widespread compulsory sterilization of those diagnosed with serious mental illness; and from the 1970s through the early 1990s, dehumanizing experiments that ignored the Nuremberg Code of research ethics were administered on this population by prominent American psychiatrists. And today in contemporary American society, apparently it is acceptable for this population to die, on average, 25 years prematurely without challenging the authorities in charge of treating them. More later on psychiatry’s blame for this premature death rate."

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What It’s Really Like To Live With Schizophrenia

https://health.good.is/features/what...is-really-like

An intimate look at a loud, creative, and utterly ordinary existence by Allie Burke

"I am one of the 51 million people worldwide living with schizophrenia, diagnosed five years ago when I was 25 years old. Since then, I’ve been wrestling not only with the uncomfortable and often scary effects of the illness itself, but also with the often insensitive way people close to me—and in the culture at large—still view the illness. As of December, the Canadian Mental Health Association ranked schizophrenia as one of the “most stigmatized and misunderstood health issues.” It’s easy, though, to throw around words like “stigma” without appreciating what that means in daily life."