The site is firmly geared to the ''genetic'/medicine model of schizophrenia with most posters adhering to that model.
It has to be said that the moderators are more rabid in ensuring discussion is focussed on a medical model etc approach than posters are in adhering to such an approach.

I personally support the medical model approach to a degree(Antipsychotics work with a varying degree of success but are not the 'magic bullet' that some would laud them to be) though not with the avid rabidity of some. Where i draw the line is with the overemphasis on medicine as a solution at the exclusion or playing down of other approaches.

Indeed it is my firm belief that the rabidness and intellectual posturing inherent on both sides of the pro and anti meds schools of thought does a great disservice to those sufferers caught up in it's crossfire.

I certainly do not agree with the clamping down on alternative view points there that are sensibly presented which may not be the same thing as necessarily agreeing with them.

Many there are great supporters of Fuller Torrey to a point that if Fuller Torrey announced that standing on your head and singing the 'Ballad of the green berets ' was an effective treatment for schizophrenia they would most probably believe it.

I have to admit that i do not hold Fuller Torrey in such high esteem but then neither am i totally dismissive of what he has to say.

I just do not see him as a 'God like' figure as some do. I certainly do not agree with his advocating that parents and relatives exaggerate or lie as to how bad mentally ill people are to facilitate the chances of them being compulsorily treated as this is a potential recipe for abuse of the mentally ill person at the hands of parents and or relatives with selfishly ulterior motives that have nothing to do with a genuine concern for the sufferer.

I am above all a believer in the diathesis-stress model of mental illness including schizophrenia with genetics and stressors playing their part to varying differing in different individuals.

I also believe that medicines should be used to improve functioning and quality of life rather than as a tool for dampening down harmless but societally disapproved of behaviours.

Unfortunately medication to treat the most disabling effect of sz ie the cognitive aspects as opposed to those seen as 'societally undesirable' leaves a lot to be desired with this research suggesting that the purported cognitive gains made by the newer atypicals are down to practice effect rather than the drugs.

I would not go as far as saying the behaviour of the mods there is particularly 'cult like' though i do not disagree that you offer up some valid points. [