In this interview, a practicing therapist weighs our contemporary understanding of “schizophrenia” and explores alternative models beyond the “medicate your brain disease” approach. I, the interviewer Matt Stevenson, am a psychiatric survivor who first encountered ParisWilliams while searching years ago for hopeful alternative conceptualizations of “schizophrenia.” At that time Parisresponded kindly to my requests for reassurance that extreme states could be healed. Today I'm following in his footsteps of raising awareness about alternatives; with this interview I'm engaging him in our common goal.
Paris is the author of Rethinking Madness — in my view the most hopeful and encouraging book available about extreme states — and a therapist currently practicing in New Zealand. Before becoming a healer, Paris had to work through his own extreme states of mind based on past trauma, a process which shaped his understanding of and response to mainstream psychiatry's narratives about “schizophrenia.”
In this interview we will explore often-contentious topics including the non-validity of the biological model, the link between parenting problems and psychosis, and how best to help psychotic people who are fighting both emotional conflicts and a psychiatric system drugging them into silence. Please read on and enjoy.
[For more of this story, written by Matt Stevenson, go to https://www.madinamerica.com/2...view-paris-williams/]
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