Time to abandon the bio-bio-bio model of psychosis: Exploring the epigenetic and psychological mechanisms by which adverse life events lead to psychotic symptoms

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Time to abandon the bio-bio-bio model of psychosis: Exploring the epigenetic and psychological mechanisms by which adverse life events lead to psychotic symptoms

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Mental health services and research have been dominated for several decades by a rather simplistic, reductionistic focus on biological phenomena, with minimal consideration of the social context within which genes and brains inevitably operate. This ‘medical model’ ideology, enthusiastically supported by the pharmaceutical industry, has been particularly powerful in the field of psychosis, where it has led to unjustified and damaging pessimism about recovery. The failure to find robust eviden...

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2009-10

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Read, John / Bentall, RP / Fosse, R

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/11946

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sexual abuse in childhood / psychosis / mechanism of psychiatric symptoms / AUDITORY VERBAL HALLUCINATIONS / CHILDHOOD TRAUMA / SELF-ESTEEM / THEORETICAL INTEGRATION / SCHIZOPHRENIC-PATIENTS / PERSECUTORY DELUSIONS / CANDIDATE GENES / MENTAL-ILLNESS / EXPERIENCES / DISORDER

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