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Topics
 Introduction; Nature vs Nurture.
 Well– Psychotic Stress Vulnerability model.
 Spontaneous self healing Part of the Interview with Dr. John Weir
Perry.
 What does Science have to say about biomedical treatment of
psychosis?
 What does Psychiatry have to say about their treatment
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“Life is the beautiful thing as far as
I hold the string”
The great majority of us were born as healthy as the perfect Nature
could endow us both genetically and biologically to lead a wonderful
fulfilling life. And then something in our early life and/or latter went
wrong with the ongoing nurture. Dysfunctional family, lack of proper
education, wrong people we associated with, drug addiction, longlasting feeling of inadequacy in family or in local and wider society,
broken strong and meaningful relationships to us, and you name the
rest, were changing our life.
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We respond differently to life’s difficulties
 You feel terrible, abandoned by others, not understood, perhaps
humiliated and cheated and therefore feel further alienated from
people around you. Despair and suffering with mounting anger with
people around you, and inappropriate behaviour for some, and
complete withdrawal from others – family and closest friends - with
suffering and despair in solitude for others. Aren’t we so different,
now in the way we respond to life’s difficulties which overwhelm us.
 These differences are no surprise and are just normal natural
differences in responses of people whose genome – biologically
imprinted differences – which govern their body-mind-spiritual
sensitivity (the endocrine & CNS system) as to how we react psychologically and physiologically to our lives’ difficulties.
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Everyone’s psychotic experience is very
personal
“Psychosis is a condition in which the dream takes the place of reality" is
probably the shortest and most expressive definition given by Jung for
one’s psychotic condition. Everyone’s psychotic experience is very
personal, and once understood by making sense of this life unpleasant
and scary experience stays as a testimony of how a non-ordinary state
of consciousness is nothing to be afraid.
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Everyone’s psychotic experience is very
personal
 Actually, even though it is a personal delusion at the time of an
emergency state of the mental health condition it can be very
enjoyable, at one time and then other time very scary when the
psychotic person becomes very paranoiac.
 Hearing voices, visual and sometimes tactile hallucinations are not
necessarily the symptoms of an illness but are the signs that one’s
ego-conscious awareness is overwhelmed with the contents from his
or her deepest unconscious, wherein it takes mythic and symbolic
forms.
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Spontaneous Self Healing
 Commenced self-healing renders through an almost apocalyptic
transformation process, involving a temporary non-ordinary state of
conscious.
 During approximately 6 weeks of turmoil a psychological
transformation process takes place when an inner process of
personal and social renewal precipitates.
 This process should not be suppressed by coercive medication and
subversive isolation or any force imposed.
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Spontaneous Self Healing
 Could the hearing voices (positive for example) be legitimately seen
as a survival strategy of the human nature - higher self for some and
Holy Spirit for others?
 To understand and contextualise one’s own psychotic experiences,
after acute psychosis, is a lengthy process for a person who has
experienced them. During that time, love, patience and a feeling of
total acceptance of the psychotic person are essentials.
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Unfortunately:
 Long term sufferers of unpleasant and disturbing mental conditions
(people whose self-healing process was stopped or suppressed from
the very beginning) have been brought up in situations where they
felt unwanted and unloved by their surroundings (friends, family and
professional helpers) because of their often extreme emotions and
anger expressed.
 A strong feeling of mistrust with professional “helpers” and a more
harmful feeling of being betrayed by the nearest has been installed.
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Language; linguistic and semantic of
pursuing communication

Language the consumers of MHS listen from psychiatrists in their
communication is of crucial importance for clients and their
families collaboration and ultimate wellbeing.

Language the consumers of MHS have been listening is mainly
the language of illness, the language of the hopelessness of a
chronic incurable patient.

And you guess, this language, which consumers listen over and
over again they translate into the language of apathy, fear, despair
and sometimes into extreme action such as self-harm or even
suicide.
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Language; linguistic and semantic of
pursuing communication

Language the consumers of MHS listen from psychiatrists in their
communication is of crucial importance for clients and their
families collaboration and ultimate wellbeing.

Language the consumers of MHS have been listening is mainly
the language of illness, the language of the hopelessness of a
chronic incurable patient.

And you guess, this language, which consumers listen over and
over again they translate into the language of apathy, fear, despair
and sometimes into extreme action such as self-harm or even
suicide.
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Destructive social forces working against
effective treatment
 Prejudice that improvement and recovery are not to be expected.
 Discrimination and poverty, as well as overzealous cost containment in
MHS and insurance coverage.
 Public dialogue is mostly about ensuring that people take their
medication, while little is said about providing ways to return to
productive lives.
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Part of the Interview with
Dr. John Weir Perry
 O'Callaghan: Did Jung really see this as a healing process?
 Perry: He believed that "schizophrenia" is a self-healing process - one
in which, specifically, the pathological complexes dissolve themselves.
The whole schizophrenic turmoil is really a self-organising, healing
experience. It's like a molten state. Everything seems to be made of
free energy, an inner free play of imagery through which the alienated
psyche spontaneously re-organises itself - in such a way that the
conscious ego is brought back into communication with the
unconscious again.
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Part of the Interview with
Dr. John Weir Perry
 O'C: How long does the experience normally last?
 PERRY: The acute hallucinatory phase, during which these contents go
through the re-ordering process, usually lasts about six weeks. This, by
the way, corresponds to the classical description of visionary experiences
in various religious texts, such as the proverbial "forty days in the
wilderness" often referred to in the Bible. Anyway, six weeks is roughly it.
 O'C: Who experiences a "schizophrenic break"?
 PERRY: Well, there's a lot of controversy about this! There is a
constitutional element, which is often interpreted as a "genotype of
pathology", but this depends on how you see it. I see it as a genotype of
sensitivity! Among adolescent siblings in a family, for example, it’s usually
the most sensitive one who's going to catch it
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Part of the Interview with
Dr. John Weir Perry
 O'C: So are you saying that the reason we have so-called "chronic
schizophrenia" in our society - where a person is medicated,
distressed or hospitalised for decades - is really cultural? A society,
which refuses to understand the healing nature of the phenomenon?
 PERRY: Yes, it seems so. Of course, there are some unusual cases
where the individual simply can't handle the impact of all this
unconscious content, or doesn't know what to do with it, and freaks
out. But from my experience at Diabasis, I've seen so many people
go the other way that I really do feel "chronic schizophrenia" is
created by society's negative response to what is actually a perfectly
natural and healthy process. I hate to think of what happens to
people who go into the mental hospital...
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Should society recognize a moral imperative
to listen to what science is telling us in last 10
years, what patients told us long before?
• The brain seems to possess capacities for healing and self-repairing
beyond the dreams of researchers and science only few decades ago.
• “Neuroscience, not psychiatry, is currently in a position where it is clear,
that none of ‘chemical imbalances’ theories for major mental disorders are
right, but science does not know what to replace them with”.
•“There is no conclusive proof at all that Dopamine plays an important role
in the aetiology of Psychosis; neither directly nor indirectly”.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience Valenstein Eliot in his book “Blaming the Brain – The
Truth about Drugs And Mental Health”. (1998).
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
“Neuroscience, not psychiatry, is currently in a
position where it is clear, that none of ‘chemical
imbalances’ theories for major mental disorders
are right, but cience does not know what to
replace them with”.

“There is no conclusive proof at all that Dopamine
plays an important role in the aetiology of
Psychosis; neither directly nor indirectly”.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience Valenstein Eliot
in his book “Blaming the Brain – The Truth about Drugs And Mental
Health”. (1998).
 “The simplistic formulation that ‘schizophrenia is a dopamine disease’ or
that ‘mood disorder is a nor-epinephrine or serotonin disease’ are almost
certainly wrong, given what we now know about the complex interaction
between chemical systems in the brain”.
Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph. D, a leading neuroscientist who is Editor-in-Chef of American Journal of
Psychiatry and a member of the task force that developed both the DSM-III and DSM-IV), in her latest
book “Brave New Brain – Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome”, 2002.
When you flood your body with molecular
substance that nature never intended to be
there, damage is virtually guaranteed.
• Gigantic molecules comprising chlorine, sulphur,
and fluorine are heavily poisonous for our brain.
Chemical Activity of Neuroleptics
Drugs block the following receptors
 Dopamine 2 receptors (D2), muscarinic-cholinergic receptors
(M1), alpha 1 and 2 edrenergic receptors (α1, α2), histamine
receptors - antihistaminic action - (H1), serotonin 2A
receptors (5HT2A), norepinephrine (NE), and N-methyl-dasparate (NMDA) glutamate receptors. The other four
subtype of dopamine receptors are D1, D3, D4 and D5 and
are attacked by new atypicals, that also attack other multiple
5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) receptors that have been
identified as (5-HT1A/1B/1D/1E/1F, 5-HT2A/2B/2C, 5-HT3A/3B, 5HT4A/4B, 5-HT5A/5B, 5-HT6 and 5-HT7A/7B/7C/7D). Little is know
about enigmatic Sigma receptors; possible ligands include
DHEA (sigma 1), and endogenous N, N-DMT with slight
affinity for both sigma receptors.
Drugs interference with the cellular
communication in CNS
 All neuroleptic; old typical and new atypical, which psychiatry
incorrectly and unfairly call antipsychotics, heavily downregulate the frontal cortex and limbic dopamine systems. By
their domino effect these drugs broadly deregulate normal
communication of other neurotransmitters and neuromodulators not only in our brain but in other vital organs in
our body.
 This is happening in organs where many of those chemicals
are secreted and carry the messages required for normal
function of our entire physiological (endocrine system for
instance) and nervous system; both the CNS and PNS.
What we think of today as a mental illness
could it be psycho-logical, spiritual
emergency and not biological?
 Bio-medical treatment in modern psychiatry today
resembles to treatment which try to solve a computer
software problem by working on the hardware.
 As psychiatry professor Thomas Szasz, M.D., has said:
“trying to eliminate so-called mental illness by having a
psychiatric work on your brain is like attempting to eliminate
cigarette commercials from television by having a TV repair
work on your TV set.
Instead Conclusions
 The great success in recovery achieved in
experimental residential facilities in Diabasis,
Berkeley, California (seventies); Kingsley Hall
experiment in London (sixties) and Soteria
House in San Diego, almost not registered by
bio-psychiatry are virtually forgotten nowadays.
J. W. Perry, R. D. Laing and Dr Loren Mosher
showed that people fully recover from psychosis
if not treated by powerful and debilitating
neuroleptic drugs.
“When people share a common goal, their
natural tendency is to cooperate in realising
it."
 The starting point for a true recovery process in
which professionals in the (existing) mental health
system want to participate and support is the
acceptance of reality of the psychotic experience
of the sufferers.
 Only by validating a person’s experience is it then
possible to working together to resolve the distress
caused by the experience.
The Pause for Thought
 The great majority of us are required to live a life
of constant systematic duplicity. Your health is
bound to be affected, day after day, and you say
the opposite of what you feel. If you grovel
before what you dislike and rejoice at what
brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous
system isn't just a fiction; it's a part of our
physical body, and our soul exists in space and
is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't
be forever violated with impunity.
Boris Pasternak
Thank you and
Questions time