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- DR. DAN L. EDMUNDS, Ed.D./INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR HUMANE PSYCHIATRY
- Dr. Dan L. Edmunds is a graduate of the University of Florida. He received a Master of Arts in Theology from the University of Scranton and received his Doctorate of Education in Community Counseling from Argosy University of Sarasota. Dr. Edmunds is a noted existential psychotherapist in practice in Northeastern Pennsylvania, having worked with children, teens, and adults. He is Board Certified in Sexual Abuse Issues through the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. Dr. Edmunds has been a guest on local and nationally syndicated radio programs and has been a presenter at numerous professional conferences. Dr. Edmunds has been a critic of the bio-psychiatric paradigm and advocated for a more humane and dignified mental health system. He strongly supports human rights in the mental health field. He consults with children, families and adults undergoing serious emotional distress and extreme states of mind using a relationship based approach. His website can be found at http://selfgrowth.com/experts/dan_edmunds.html To consult with Dr. Edmunds, you may e-mail the International Center for Humane Psychiatry at batushkad@yahoo.com
Psychiatrist Kurt Audenaert (head of a psychiatric clinic and a professor at the State University of Gent, Belgium) claims to know the cause of schizophrenia. He bases his case on fMRI studies of the brain.
ReplyDeleteHe wrote (my translation from Dutch):
In the human brain, there is an intriguing part - the prefrontal lobe, which allows us to filter the many sensory stimuli entering the brain. There are neuropsychiatric disorders in which the prefrontal lobe is unable to respond adequately to sensory stimuli, so that the filter function fails. For example, paranoid schizophrenia is associated with the delusion that you are followed, spied on. The boundary of the ego disappears, there are 'voices' being heard and scenes are being seen. Sensory perceptions acquire meaning and are interpreted.
http://www.kamagurka.eu/EN/Kamalmanak_bv-11.php
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I also found this on internet:
The frontal lobes appear to play a very important role in schizophrenia... So, because many of the problems that patients with schizophrenia have involve the regulation of their behavior, the regulation of their perception of their cognitive apparatus, the ability to organize behavior so that it fits the contextual environmental context – these functions which are thought to be served by the frontal lobe suggest that the frontal lobe is not really working that well in schizophrenia.
http://www.dnalc.org/view/1162-Frontal-Lobes-and-Schizophrenia.html
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May I ask your opinion on this?
My overall considered judgement is...
ReplyDelete• that the independent evidence for
somatic causes as the only, or even
the main non-hereditary factor in
schizophrenia is not sufficient
• that the many findings of MRI and
fMRI changes in schizophrenia does
not make any difference with
respect to this issue
– that any judgement to the effect that schizophrenia is due to
heredity plus somatic (organic) factors is premature
– that a confusion with the obvious fact that schizophrenia has a
biological basis may contribute to such a premature judgement
– that the search for a psychogenic contribution has to be continued
– that schizophrenia is probably a partly sociogenic brain disorder
http://www.phil.gu.se/posters/schiz_Leiden.pdf