Ron Unger

Promoting innovative approaches for “psychosis” & exploring connections w/ trauma, dissociation & spirituality

[Ron Unger @ronunger]

@USAlpha1A2A3A4A Yes, I'm around! My email is [email protected]

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

Study shows prevalence of dementia among people with schizophrenia is a staggering 28% at age 66 vs 1.3% in 'controls'. Antipsychotics and other medications suggested as possible cause https://t.co/mQl5yYzoYy

[Mad In America @Mad_In_America]

How Can Soccer Coaching Help People Who Hear Voices?
By Rufus May & Kate Quinn

Through mapping out their voices and supporting voice hearers to talk constructively with their voices, voice hearers can live with their voices in more positive ways.

https://t.co/9zVTCMKL7W

[Mad In America @Mad_In_America]

Nobody Told Me to Do This: What It Means to Be a Dissident Psychiatrist
By Rupinder Legha, MD

The more honestly I have reckoned with my own story—warts and all—the more capable and responsible I have become of understanding the suffering of others.

https://t.co/PJoQtKKAsg

[Mad In America @Mad_In_America]

Where Psychedelics Meet Madness: Intersections, Lessons and a Call for Transformative Research Agendas
By Tam Martin Fowles

When I had my “psychotic” experience, I longed for someone to ask me the questions included in the Ego-Dissolution Inventory.
https://t.co/SYduoUskT8

[Ron Unger @ronunger]

Mental health professionals are often afraid to address trauma when people are also having experiencing psychosis, but new research proves even more strongly that it is safe and helpful to do so https://t.co/HS2KS55A5I

[Mad In America @Mad_In_America]

Beyond Medication: What England’s Experience Can Teach Us About Psychosis Care
By Alison Brabban

For over 20 years, NICE in England has recommended that people experiencing psychosis should be offered psychological therapy—not simply medication alone.

https://t.co/f3gyoYMQUc

[Mad In America @Mad_In_America]

On My Way to Norway with Julia Greenberg and Dory Previn
By Karin Jervert & Julia Greenberg

Dory’s eloquent reflections on her relationship with the voices she heard anticipated the burgeoning Hearing Voices and Mad Pride movements.

https://t.co/RbdL1ULfMK

[Ron Unger @ronunger]

Paris Williams offers some thought provoking reflections on what's going on: "When Worlds Unravel: What Psychosis Teaches Us About Civilizational Collapse and Rebirth" https://t.co/hvrK9DjrMK

[Nicolas Badre @BadreNicolas]

Medicare enrollees are prescribed 27% less antipsychotics than 10 years ago!

Adjusted for population growth, the rate of prescribing dropped from 0.63 to 0.46 claims per enrollee.

That still seems high to me and suggests that in 2023, more than 3.8% (46/12) of Medicare enrollees are prescribed antipsychotics.

Ref: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.3410 (March, 2026)

[Ron Unger @ronunger]

This webinar explores the largest study that demonstrates how to offer successful therapy for people whose psychosis is linked to trauma https://t.co/gmD34FrdSH

[Ron Unger @ronunger]

"This review illustrates that schizophrenic symptoms are not discrete, unrelated deficits, but rather an integrated whole, emerging from a fundamental reorganization of consciousness." Important observation! https://t.co/TEvjB6P13Y

[Ron Unger @ronunger]

@senatorshoshana More evidence on how they can be detrimental - increased rates of dementia https://t.co/2GbHtlKcuf

[Ron Unger @ronunger]

There's evidence that verbal abuse can be as harmful as physical abuse - and unfortunately verbal abuse of children is becoming more common https://t.co/XGsHlWP0Q9

[Ron Unger @ronunger]

@PTrubetskov @joannamoncrieff One great illustration of this is in the story that Rai tells at https://t.co/jvFRgZVSIq

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

Psychiatric 'diagnoses' are used to pretend the problem has been solved. It hasn't, but worse it is now obscured behind the label.

[Mad In America @Mad_In_America]

Today on the MIA #podcast Prateeksha Sharma reflects on her experience of recovery from psychosis, sheds lights on the treatment harms that often go unnamed and thus unnoticed, and discusses how to claim narrative, dignity, and voice.

Full interview: https://t.co/J6ksbBeKit

[Ron Unger @ronunger]

Here's a video of a workshop on a Compassionate Approach to Working with Distressing Voices that I presented at a MERIT conference... https://t.co/WLZ153lXke

[Dr John Read @ReadReadj]

Psychotherapies of Depth, Insight, and Relationship for Psychosis: Listening with the Intent to Understand the Psychological Meaning of Psychotic Symptoms: Psychoanalytic Inquiry: Vol 46, No 1 https://t.co/PpxhUR4xYG

[Radoslaw Stupak @RadoslawStupak]

This paper explores three socially oriented approaches to mental health recovery: Open Dialogue (OD), Recovery Capital (RC), and the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF)

https://t.co/dBii2O2GEv