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Recovery from Psychosis in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Is Possible

Mad in America

And that made me more confident to step out further into the real world: I began to volunteer with an organisation focused on mental health advocacy. There are still mild cognitive issues and a feeling that my brain has definitely slowed down. I am becoming re-integrated with the real world.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

Our goal was that, by the time the DSM-5 was released, the headlines wouldnt call it the definitive manual of psychiatrythey would call it controversial. And when our understanding of personhood changes, so too does the implicit philosophical anthropology that shapes our definitions of normality and pathology. We wanted to change that.