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Are Schizophrenia Outcomes Better in Developing Countries?

Award winning medical journalist and author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and Mad In America, Robert Whitaker, became curious when he read about two World Health Organisation studies that showed longer-term outcomes for schizophrenia patients in three “developing” countries were much better than six “developed” countries. Despite limited resources how was it that outcomes for schizophrenia in places like India or Nigeria were better than the US?

Living in Argentina, I have had first hand experie...

What psychosis is really like – interview with Author Emma Goude

Filmmaker, Dean Puckett, interviewed Emma Goude, author of My Beautiful Psychosis as part of his research for a script he was writing. He wanted to know what it was like to experience psychosis for a character he was portraying. The result is this frank author interview.

What is it like to experience psychosis?

‘To me the state had more clarity about it. I felt like I could see more clearly.’

How do the psychotic episodes begin?

‘There is not really any warning.’

What does it fe...

Author Interview about what psychosis is really like.

Filmmaker, Dean Puckett, interviewed Emma Goude, author of My Beautiful Psychosis as part of his research for a script he was writing. He wanted to know what it was like to experience psychosis for a character he was portraying. The result is this frank author interview.

What is it like to experience psychosis?

‘To me the state had more clarity about it. I felt like I could see more clearly.’

How do the psychotic episodes begin?

‘There is not really any warning.’

What does it fe...

In Case Of Spiritual Emergency Book by Catherine G Lucas

Catherine G Lucas, co-founder of the Spiritual Crisis Network UK published her first book In Case Of Spiritual Emergency, which validates non ordinary states of consciousness. Transpersonal experiences are usually pathologised by the mental health system. Catherine’s book is an essential read for anyone who has been through a transformational crisis, especially if this has been seen as a psychosis by mental health professionals.

Catherine has drawn upon her own personal experience as w...