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Old Jan 18, 2015, 09:13 AM
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British Psychological Association released a remarkable document entitled “Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia.” Its authors say that hearing voices and feeling paranoid are common experiences, and are often a reaction to trauma, abuse or deprivation: “Calling them symptoms of mental illness, psychosis or schizophrenia is only one way of thinking about them, with advantages and disadvantages.”
Not every professional disparages this viewpoint:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/op...ml?ref=opinion
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