Nasar Sayeed Khan.
Schizophrenia soul in crisis.
Pak Postgrad Med J Jan ;13(3):95-6.

The healing of schizophrenia as `soul in crisis` cannot be bottled into pills, or learned out of a textbook. It is an art requiring care and heart. What works, makes sense, re-empowers and heals, is what helps by sufferers` own accounts. And what heals is compassionate, persuasive, soulful therapy, which recognizes that growth can occur through psychosis, or `spiritual emergency`, as a natural process of `disintegration` which, can lead to rebirth. As well, the scapegoating have more and more people as `mentally ill`, diverts from any serious cultural criticism. Much so-called `mental illness`, for example, can be seen as a reflection of cultural sickness, or `soul loss` and ironically, as a reaction against a soul-less medical model.

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