The approach outlined in this article is almost exactly opposite of how I work with my clients who have symptom collections that are labeled schizophrenia (an intersubjective, relational model), but it’s an interesting attempt to create a more integrated and practical model. The intersubjective model is much more relational than this approach, and it seeks … Read more
Paul Whiteley, who blogs at Questioning Answers (mostly on autism research), posted this intriguing research summary from Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry on the relationship between the “gut-brain axis” and schizophrenia, which is not a new avenue of research, but is nonetheless still considered a fringe notion in the mainstream schizophrenia research. It only … Read more
This is an interesting overview of the current research on how inflammation can play a role in depression, schizophrenia, and autism. I suspect there is much more research to be done in this realm, but I believe they need to stop using pharmacological interventions targeted at a specific molecule or hormone in the immune response … Read more
Kelsey Osgood is the author of How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia (2013), and in this article for The New Republic she takes a look back at 50 years since the publication of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, written by Joanne Greenberg. One of the issues raised about the book since it … Read more
This is an interesting article on schizophrenia from The American Scholar. The author seems to throw all of the prevailing theories against the wall the see what sticks, to find some way to make sense of how her sister died. One of the pieces missing, however, is the fact that an extremely large percentage of … Read more
From Frontiers in Psychiatry: Schizophrenia, this new article looks at the foundations of severe mental illness in gene-environment interactions, which is at least a first step toward grasping the significant impact of environment on all psychological challenges. Full Citation: Uher, R. (2014, May 15). Gene–environment interactions in severe mental illness. Frontiers in Psychiatry: Schizophrenia; 5:48. doi: … Read more
This is an interesting article on the occurrence of auditory hallucinations in psychosis/schizophrenia. It comes from the open access journal, Frontiers in Psychiatry: Schizophrenia. Later today or tomorrow I will post a commentary on this article, which is also quite interesting (if you care at all about this kind of stuff). A LOT of people … Read more
This is an interesting article that analyzes, with a qualitative model, the intersubjective aspects of schizophrenia. This may be too geeky for some readers, but I am finding more psychosis in my counseling work, and this helps me understand better what the client is experiencing. Here is an explanation of the paper’s agenda: The processes … Read more