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Last updated 0410/2007





Calls to end stigma of schizophrenia ‘label’,
Sunday Herald, 04/10/2007
A growing number of mental health experts in Scotland agree that there is a need to scrap the term schizophrenia, since it has, they believe, become a stigmatised and scientifically redundant category.

World Psychiatric Association Meets With Psychiatric Survivor Movement Groups
June 13, 2007, medicalnewstoday.com

During the WPA congress in Dresden, Germany, June 6-8 2007, top global psychiatry leaders meet with united psychiatric survivor/mental health consumer groups. The topic: dialogue about psychiatric coercion.

People with schizophrenia not taking antipsychotics more likely to recover, states research.
June 13, 2007, psychminded.co.uk

People diagnosed with schizophrenia who are not on antipsychotics are more likely to experience recovery than those taking the medication, according to an American study.

Psychosen sind weit mehr als ein biologischer Defekt, 28. März 2007, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Edgar Hagen will mit dem Dokumentarfilm «Someone Beside You» ein Tabu brechen. Wie kann ein Mensch, der den Verstand verliert, wieder Herr seines Geistes werden? In «Someone Beside You» geben Menschen mit Psychosen Antworten. Zu Wort kommen auch Therapeuten, die auf «die radikale Akzeptanz des Gegenübers» setzen.

A group of police officers training to assist mentally ill subjects were seeing things and hearing voices themselves
Police officers training to assist mentally ill subjects were seeing things and hearing voices themselves.

CASL: The campaign for the abolition of the schizophrenia label Change may be coming more quickly then we think, a new campaign launched.

Paranoia 'a widespread problem', BBC News Online, 03/07/2006
One in three people in the UK regularly suffers paranoid or suspicious fears, clinical psychologists have found.



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  1. eduarda guedesMarch 06, 2008 @ 06:34 PM
    penso que a vossa opiniaõ sobre a esquisofrenia ser uma reação está correcta assim como a paranoia e até a bipolar.as pessoas quando são muito agredidas e até quando não se defendem entram em sofrimento muito sofrimento e porvezes precisam de ajuda sem violencia e com respeito pelo ser humano pelas personalidades pelas crenças. com muito repeito. obrigado eduarda guedes
  2. eduarda guedesMarch 06, 2008 @ 06:34 PM
    penso que a vossa opiniaõ sobre a esquisofrenia ser uma reação está correcta assim como a paranoia e até a bipolar.as pessoas quando são muito agredidas e até quando não se defendem entram em sofrimento muito sofrimento e porvezes precisam de ajuda sem violencia e com respeito pelo ser humano pelas personalidades pelas crenças. com muito repeito. obrigado eduarda guedes
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