Do We Find Organicity Even Within Psychosis?
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As the schizophrenia and psychosis recovery research continues to accumulate, we find the first stirrings of a profound shift in our understanding of these confusing disorders. On one hand, we find increasing evidence that schizophrenia (and other closely related psychotic disorders) may not be the manifestation of a diseased brain after all; on the other hand, we find evidence that, in spite of the often extreme mind states involved in these disorders, psychosis may very well be a natural (although a very desperate and precarious) coping/healing/growth-oriented process (i.e., a manifestation of organicity).
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