I hope someone is waking up. I know I was completely sold on the medical model when my son had his first episode. I thought I'd get him to the doctor, get some meds in him, and everything would be hunky dory.

Six years later it makes less and less sense.

I picked up a a book by a guy named Silvano Arieti on the last day of the library book sale a month ago - the day they give the remaining books away free. I guess Arieti was considered an expert on schizophrenia in his day. The book was published in 1974 and he died in 1981. Certainly not that long ago, yet I'd never heard of him. Anyway the book, The Interpretation of Schizophrenia, makes so much more sense that most of what's written today.

And he's empathetic with his patients! He sounds like a genuinely kind man. I'm convinced most people who have slipped into psychosis need a caring relationship more that a handful of drugs.