There's a great new resource for anyone who wants to understand the compassion focused therapy approach for psychosis It's a digest that includes links to important articles that go into more detail. The digest is free to read via the link open.substack.com/pub/chriswinso…

When I was in uncertain mental places as a younger person, my biggest fear was that I would be seen through a psychiatric label and no one would try to understand me or find value in what I was saying.

Medications Aren’t the Measure of Success in Psychosis Treatment Researchers in Norway find people with psychosis are most satisfied with services that help them work, study, and live in the community. By Richard Sears madinamerica.com/2025/06/medica…

EVENT NEXT WEEK! Join us Thursday, June 26 at 9AM PST, 12PM EST, 4PM GMT, 6PM CET for a special webinar on Recovery Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis: Living Well w/ Psychosis with Aaron P. Brinen,PsyD and Ron Unger Register at the link below: eventbrite.com/e/recovery-ori…

So excited to join Mad In America & Ron Unger to discuss Recovery Oriented Cognitive Therapy and Living Well with Psychosis from Guilford Press!

Antipsychotics Do Not Provide a Clinically Meaningful Benefit Over the Short-Term: A Review of the Evidence An MIA Report by Robert Whitaker 70 years of RCTs fail to provide evidence that antipsychotics have benefit for treating acute psychotic episodes. buff.ly/u8NULgM

Soteria—A Human Response to a Human Problem by Yair Tzivoni The Soteria model has gained recognition in Israel, with more than 35 such "stabilizing houses" now operating, most publicly funded. madinamerica.com/2025/06/soteri…

A lot of people want help to come off long term medication - for those of you who do - here's a new book - endorsed by Gabor Maté to prepare you for the road ahead. amzn.to/4lFkuf0

We need more people talking about this! It's unethical to get people trapped on medication and not give them any assistance in trying to get off when they want, often for very good reasons, to try to do that. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Much current mental health treatment is remarkably close minded & ignorant of the possible value of mental diversity. Explore a radically different approach - “Addressing Cultural and Spiritual Issues within Treatment for Psychosis” only $29 through 8/1/25 ron-unger-lcsw.ce-go.com/courses/addres…

How can professionals reliably distinguish "psychosis" from various forms of mental, cultural, and spiritual diversity? Or would it be better for them to be humble about their inability to do so? Helpful approaches described in this video youtube.com/watch?v=JC4C26…

In Pittsburgh, a city with many homeless, only 3% of involuntarily detained psychiatric patients had spent time in homeless shelters in past year. Most were "actively engaged in society, including through formal employment.” Hospitalization worsened that. robwipond.substack.com/p/forced-hospi…

New video: youtu.be/b5NEoo99xAU?si…

This should be a fascinating conversation!

Not So Hasty: The Effect of Tapering Speed on Relapse May Still Be Important academic.oup.com/schizophreniab…

New publication on the PTMF and trauma-informed care project on CNWL NHS FT inpatient wards. Qualitative data from staff and service users shows how a change in how distress is conceptualised, facilitates new and helpful approaches to severe distress. frontiersin.org/journals/psych…

In this moving memoir, Eugene Larkin recounts his years at the radical Soteria House project—where staff lived alongside people experiencing psychosis, offering no medication, only presence. samizdathealth.org/seeking-soteri…

🚨 The FIRST RCT of antipsychotic discontinuation was published YESTERDAY. Do antipsychotics in patients with first-episode psychosis actually improve long-term outcomes? In short: NO But it's nuanced. Here's what you need to know about this landmark paper in JAMA Psych🧵