Comments on: A journey through schizophrenia science

By: susan burns

susan burns — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:38:31 +0000

Dan I am a great believer that too much is placed on academia, yes knowledge of evidence based practice is highly acknowledged in academic life, however nothing compares with the hands on experience of working one to one with patients and their uniqueness

By: Barcelona psicologos

Barcelona psicologos — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:20:02 +0000

Currently there is evidence that schizophrenia has biological causes. I think you should do research on the impact on a person to be named “schizophrenic.” In our society, that a person is “schizophrenic” is similar to saying that a “sick”. Therefore, when diagnosed with schizophrenia a person and this makes it public, society treats him as a patient. If society treats them as patients act sick.
I think if you have a good medication that will eliminate the hallucinations, they should be treated as normal people, not sick. Sure and improve or feel better.
Sorry for my English.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:01:27 +0000

Currently it seems that explanations of mind have moved toward the biological. I personally believe that, while of course the two most go hand in hand, a biological model of the mind leaves much to be desired compared to a symbolic explanation of mind (the psychoanalytic, object relations, intersubjective, or systems theories) when it comes to describing the human experience. I also believe that these symbolic models have never been either systematic enough (all the psychoanalytic theories) or deep enough (the systems or cognitive theories) to satisfy the common urge to understand psychology thoroughly (from inside out, or vice versa). Anyway, all of this is to say, I would like to invite those interested to read my own psychoanalytic/systems theory that I first published in my book “The Therapist’s Use of Self in Family Therapy” (Aronson, 2000), but have shortened and simplified (to make it more accessable) in my new book “The Emotional Toolbox: A Manual for Mental Health.” You can also take a look at my application of the theory to psychotic disorders and bipolar disorder. I have included the links to these articles below. I would love to start a conversation in this area – to be truthful, I believe my theory is a much needed unifying theory that is largely overlooked due to the fact that I am a clinician and spend little to no time in academia.

Article on The Relational Systems Theory

http://www.drbochner.com/articles_for_families/from_id_to_family_system_or_the_id_is_the_engine_in_the_great_life_machine

Article on Psychotic Disorders

http://www.drbochner.com/articles_on_psychological_diagnoses/psychotic_disorders

Article on Bipolar Disorder

http://www.drbochner.com/articles_on_psychological_diagnoses/bipolar_disorder

By: kathy lowen

kathy lowen — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:16:02 +0000

Worth mentioning is Julian Jaynes notion of the so-called “Bi-Cameral Mind”, and the idea that conscious self-awareness might be a relatively new phenomenon in human evolution, emerging from each hemisphere of the brain becoming “compartmentalized” into separate, more discrete processing functions, which in turn communicate via the corpus collosum, the nerve bundle connecting them. Jaynes believed there was historical written evidence that at some point self awareness arose in the now-dominant left (aka “conscious”) hemisphere, overtaking the problem-solving abilities of “pre-conscious” humans, who literally were directed by the voices of “the gods” (aka, schizophrenia). In other words, Jaynes has suggested that schizophrenia may actually be just a throwback to an earlier stage in our development. BTW, there’s a somewhat similar theory that autism, instead of being a “disease”, may also be simply a throwback to our Neanderthal ancestors, who appear to have had markedly less social complexity than homo sapiens.