Recovery from "Schizophrenia" and other "Psychotic Disorders" - New understandings of the mind and of madness can open doors to
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While it’s still common for people to be told that psychosis is a brain disorder that was not caused by anything anyone did to them, there is now an extensive body of research that indicates that traumatic experience can be a cause of psychosis, and the link between having multiple types of trauma and later psychosis is close to the strength of the link between smoking and lung cancer.
But what is the nature of the connection between trauma and psychosis? One factor that seems to play a role is that of dissociation, which is something we all do at times but which is often very strongly triggered by trauma.
Recovery from "Schizophrenia" and other "Psychotic Disorders" - New understandings of the mind and of madness can open doors to