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PAT DEEGAN: RECOVERY VS SYMPTOM SUPPRESSION

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In this episode, PATRICIA DEEGAN shares her experience with psychosis and explains the RECOVERY approach to schizophrenia/ psychosis and contrasts it with SYMPTOM SUPPRESSION, the goal of medication treatment. 

She discusses the role of MEANING and PURPOSE and introduces the concept of “POWER STATEMENTS” to help guide prescribers in the use of psychiatric medications.