Life Flow One
The Solution For Heart Disease
by
Karl Loren
An inspiring meeting of minds and dreamsComments to ISPS 2000 from psychologist John Read, Auckland, New Zealand My overwhelming reaction to ISPS 2000, on a personal level, as I said goodbye to new friends, was a high of exhausted excitement. Through a fog of jet-lag, exacerbated by the short Norwegian nights, I had met some wonderful people and heard so many beautiful stories of our various attempts to connect to madness person to person. So a huge thank you to all of you who made this tremendous meeting of minds and dreams possible. I felt really encouraged and supported by reactions to my own work demonstrating the link between childhood trauma and schizophrenia. So many folk said something like: “Yes I’ve always thought that was true from my own experience but over the years I’ve stopped raising it because of negative reactions” or “Thanks for providing the evidence for what I’ve always felt was right but could never convince my colleagues.” My major criticism of the Symposium was the incongruity between the exciting and creative psychological work being presented in seminars and workshops and the depressing and inaccurate claims for a strong biological and genetic etiology of schizophrenia coming from the stage in some of the plenary sessions. That’s why I thought it important that someone challenge these old myths from the floor. What I tried to convey, on that Thursday morning, was the spirit of the conference as I experienced it from the presentations and conversations. If all the intellectual creativity and emotional commitment demonstrated by the presenters are ever to take a central role in the so-called “bio-psycho-social” model we must, unfortunately, challenge the current view, based largely on methodologically naïve and woefully biased research, that psychological and social factors are merely triggers or exacerbators of some underlying genetic/biological predisposition to madness. ‘Schizophrenics’ do have childhoods and what happens to us as children can, in it’s own right, create the hypersensitivity to additional stressors later in life that can tip us over the edge into psychosis. Judging by the strong reaction to my comments in that plenary session I am far from alone in believing that to ignore or minimize the life events of our clients is bordering on the negligent. One of the most poignant moments of the Symposium, for me, was being reminded, in a seminar by Loren Mosher, of the only genuinely drug vs. drug-free study ever undertaken – at Soteria House, and of the demonstrated (but ignored) benefits of human-based vs. chemical-based treatment. This contrasted starkly with mistaken assumptions from the stage such as “Of course it’s now a given that all psychological treatments must be underpinned by medication.” Thankyou Loren for still sparkling with your cynical optimism after all these years. There were too many other inspiring contributions to mention individually. Perhaps one theme to be developed (at Melbourne ?) is how to achieve a greater integration between the various strands of our work - psychodynamic, cognitive, phenomenological, socio-cultural etc. (the last of these being largely unaddressed at this Symposium). I sometimes felt there were more language barriers around than those based on our 43 different nationalities. A greater understanding and valuing of our various psychological approaches and how they can fit together for the benefit of our clients seems a goal really worth striving for. As I once said to one of the leading figures in the invaluable advances with cognitive approaches – when he described the process of helping a client reattribute their voices from an external to an internal source, “That’s wonderful work. The client is now ready to begin therapy”. Back in New Zealand now it is truly comforting to know that there are so many people ‘out there’ working away in your different ways trying to understand and stand under people whose lives have been so painful that they have withdrawn, temporarily, from the external world only to become lost in an internal chaos full of symbolic representations of the madness outside them that caused their ‘psychosis’ in the first place. It was a genuine honour and a pleasure to have been in Stavanger with you all. See you in Melbourne if not before. |
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