Many clients with schizophrenia have difficulty with treatment compliance. By including both strengths and deficits in treatment, the client may have a greater chance of actually complying with the treatment plan. Clients are not compliant out of a deviant stance. Clients tend not to comply when they don’t possess the necessary skills to carry it out. The Integral model offers the therapist a tool to actually assess the clients various lines of development.

"According to this perspective, schizophrenia is a by-product of our rapidly evolving brains. Because we are operating at near-capacity levels, any reduction in our ability to produce and process brain energy can be debilitating. "

Alterations in a molecular brain pathway activated by marijuana may contribute to the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

The real cause of 'mad' behavior is often overlooked by patients and therapists.

Schizophrenia Bulletin seeks to review recent developments and empirically based hypotheses regarding the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia.

This web site is based around the Overcoming Paranoid and Suspicious Thoughts book written by Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman and Philippa Garety.

Could autism and schizophrenia be cousins? New research shows that people with schizophrenia have rare variations in genes that control brain development and that each person has a unique pattern of mutations. The finding is startlingly similar to new research on autism.

Despite popular representations to the contrary, creative people are rarely insane. [2] But creativity and madness may be connected in other ways; we find suggestions of schizotypy in the biographies of many artists, and schizophrenia and related conditions seem to be disproportionately represented in talented and creative families. [3] There are attractions, therefore, in the idea that creativity depends on the controlled deployment of capacities that are uncontrolled in psychosis: an idea explored by psychoanalytically inclined writers such as Ernst Kris and Hanna Segal. [4]

Ongoing discussion with paranoid schizophrenia