Ron Unger
@ronunger.bsky.social
Therapist and educator specializing in working with states often called "psychosis." Looking at how madness can be understood as a reaction to life events & often more like a revolution in the mind rather than an "illness."
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Why it matters 👇
👉 Assess trauma and mentalisation together
👉 Look out for neglect, where links are strongest
👉 Use trauma-informed, mentalisation-focused care
Full blog: buff.ly/GDRBMbV
👉 Assess trauma and mentalisation together
👉 Look out for neglect, where links are strongest
👉 Use trauma-informed, mentalisation-focused care
Full blog: buff.ly/GDRBMbV
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Why it matters 👇
👉 Assess trauma and mentalisation together
👉 Look out for neglect, where links are strongest
👉 Use trauma-informed, mentalisation-focused care
Full blog: buff.ly/GDRBMbV
👉 Assess trauma and mentalisation together
👉 Look out for neglect, where links are strongest
👉 Use trauma-informed, mentalisation-focused care
Full blog: buff.ly/GDRBMbV
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Across studies, perceived racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination was linked with psychosis risk in both clinical and non-clinical populations.
The message is clear: racism is not just context, it’s a causal factor in mental health inequalities.
👉 Read our blog: buff.ly/EysiuO7
The message is clear: racism is not just context, it’s a causal factor in mental health inequalities.
👉 Read our blog: buff.ly/EysiuO7
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Across studies, perceived racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination was linked with psychosis risk in both clinical and non-clinical populations.
The message is clear: racism is not just context, it’s a causal factor in mental health inequalities.
👉 Read our blog: buff.ly/EysiuO7
The message is clear: racism is not just context, it’s a causal factor in mental health inequalities.
👉 Read our blog: buff.ly/EysiuO7
Get CE credit while learning how to facilitate recovery from psychosis! 3 6 hour self-paced courses to choose from, each just $29 till 11/15/25. Subjects are CBT for Psychosis, Trauma Dissociation & Psychosis, and Cultural & Spiritual Issues in Treatment. recoveryfrompsychosis.org/understand-p...
Understand Psychosis and Help People Recover, Flash Sale on 3 Self-Paced Courses - Recovery from "Schizophrenia" and other "Psychotic Disorders"
It’s been a central mission of my life to discover and then teach practical ways to help people understand and overcome problems with distressing voices & visions, paranoia, and confusion about altern...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Get CE credit while learning how to facilitate recovery from psychosis! 3 6 hour self-paced courses to choose from, each just $29 till 11/15/25. Subjects are CBT for Psychosis, Trauma Dissociation & Psychosis, and Cultural & Spiritual Issues in Treatment. recoveryfrompsychosis.org/understand-p...
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SAVE THE DATE 📅 Wed 10 December 1-2
IMH Lunchtime seminar:
Delusion as embodied, affective and relational experience
Online and in person
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
IMH Lunchtime seminar:
Delusion as embodied, affective and relational experience
Online and in person
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
SAVE THE DATE 📅 Wed 10 December 1-2
IMH Lunchtime seminar:
Delusion as embodied, affective and relational experience
Online and in person
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
IMH Lunchtime seminar:
Delusion as embodied, affective and relational experience
Online and in person
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Great to see this video about the iMAPS-2 trial results of imagery therapy for psychosis below 👇
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Distressing mental images affect around 3 in 4 people with psychosis.
They can feel vivid, emotional, and overwhelming, yet are rarely addressed in therapy.
The iMAPS-2 trial tested a therapy focused on these images and their link to negative beliefs.
🧵 THREAD #iMAPS2 #Psychosis #ElfHelp
They can feel vivid, emotional, and overwhelming, yet are rarely addressed in therapy.
The iMAPS-2 trial tested a therapy focused on these images and their link to negative beliefs.
🧵 THREAD #iMAPS2 #Psychosis #ElfHelp
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Great to see this video about the iMAPS-2 trial results of imagery therapy for psychosis below 👇
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"Relating positively and openly with voices through dialogue: A talking with voices implementation guide for mental health practitioners" bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
<em>Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice</em> | BPS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The Talking With Voices approach, influenced by the work of the survivor-led Hearing Voices Movement, is a non-pathologising way of relating to the experience of voice hearing which emphasises coping...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Relating positively and openly with voices through dialogue: A talking with voices implementation guide for mental health practitioners" bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Trauma-Informed Care and the PTMF: How Does It Work in Practice?
The program reduced self-harm, seclusion, and restraint. Now we have a better idea of how it was able to achieve that goal—and the barriers preventing it from being used more often.
The program reduced self-harm, seclusion, and restraint. Now we have a better idea of how it was able to achieve that goal—and the barriers preventing it from being used more often.
Trauma-Informed Care and the PTMF: How Does It Work in Practice?
It reduced self-harm, seclusion, and restraint. Now we have a better idea of how it was able to achieve that goal—and barriers preventing it.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Trauma-Informed Care and the PTMF: How Does It Work in Practice?
The program reduced self-harm, seclusion, and restraint. Now we have a better idea of how it was able to achieve that goal—and the barriers preventing it from being used more often.
The program reduced self-harm, seclusion, and restraint. Now we have a better idea of how it was able to achieve that goal—and the barriers preventing it from being used more often.
A new study on what might happen when people get support in trying to reduce antipsychotics jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Reduction or Discontinuation vs Maintenance Antipsychotics
This randomized clinical trial compares early dose reduction or discontinuation vs maintenance treatment of antipsychotic medication for patients remitted from first-episode psychosis in the Netherlan...
jamanetwork.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A new study on what might happen when people get support in trying to reduce antipsychotics jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Treatment for psychosis often leaves people feeling trapped, stuck taking drugs they hate and that may do more harm than good in the long term. In a webinar 9/25/25 psychiatrist Helen Speyer explores how to instead support choice, while also managing risk www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating...
August 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Treatment for psychosis often leaves people feeling trapped, stuck taking drugs they hate and that may do more harm than good in the long term. In a webinar 9/25/25 psychiatrist Helen Speyer explores how to instead support choice, while also managing risk www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating...
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Some thoughts and dialogue between me and Mathew Dillon around Madness, Mysticism and Philosophy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcG4...
Madness, Mysticism, and Philosophy – A Talk with Wouter Kusters
YouTube video by HDS Center for the Study of World Religions
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August 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Some thoughts and dialogue between me and Mathew Dillon around Madness, Mysticism and Philosophy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcG4...
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CBSPp (Cognitive Behavioural Suicide Prevention for psychosis) therapy didn’t outperform usual care overall, but helped high-risk people sooner, boosted wellbeing, and improved perceived social support.
What role does social connection play in recovery?
Dive into the findings: buff.ly/ZMNVBSx
What role does social connection play in recovery?
Dive into the findings: buff.ly/ZMNVBSx
July 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
CBSPp (Cognitive Behavioural Suicide Prevention for psychosis) therapy didn’t outperform usual care overall, but helped high-risk people sooner, boosted wellbeing, and improved perceived social support.
What role does social connection play in recovery?
Dive into the findings: buff.ly/ZMNVBSx
What role does social connection play in recovery?
Dive into the findings: buff.ly/ZMNVBSx
We need more people talking about this! It's unethical to get people trapped on medication and not give them any assistance in trying to get off when they want, often for very good reasons, to try to do that. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Ethical Dilemmas of Antipsychotic Discontinuation
This Viewpoint discusses the process of shared decision-making between clinicians and patients when considering the discontinuation of antipsychotic medication and proposes a shift toward an alternati...
jamanetwork.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We need more people talking about this! It's unethical to get people trapped on medication and not give them any assistance in trying to get off when they want, often for very good reasons, to try to do that. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Blogpost #172: Deification as a Risk Factor for AI-Associated Psychosis
When AI hype is taken to an extreme, delusional thinking can result.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
When AI hype is taken to an extreme, delusional thinking can result.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
Deification as a Risk Factor for AI-Associated Psychosis
Deification and immersion may be driving anecdotal reports of AI-associated psychosis.
www.psychologytoday.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Blogpost #172: Deification as a Risk Factor for AI-Associated Psychosis
When AI hype is taken to an extreme, delusional thinking can result.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
When AI hype is taken to an extreme, delusional thinking can result.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...
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this is really it.
and the answer is, we would all behave more decently.
and the answer is, we would all behave more decently.
What Would Happen If Everyone Truly Believed Everything Is One?
Research suggests a belief in oneness has broad implications for psychological functioning and compassion for those outside of our immediate circle.
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June 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
this is really it.
and the answer is, we would all behave more decently.
and the answer is, we would all behave more decently.
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Cannabis, psychosis and the structural realities for ethnic minorities buff.ly/lpRKYTP
#Cannabis #Psychosis #EthnicMinorities #RiskFactors #BlackMentalHealth #SocialDeterminants
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#Cannabis #Psychosis #EthnicMinorities #RiskFactors #BlackMentalHealth #SocialDeterminants
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June 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Cannabis, psychosis and the structural realities for ethnic minorities buff.ly/lpRKYTP
#Cannabis #Psychosis #EthnicMinorities #RiskFactors #BlackMentalHealth #SocialDeterminants
🧵 THREAD
#Cannabis #Psychosis #EthnicMinorities #RiskFactors #BlackMentalHealth #SocialDeterminants
🧵 THREAD
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Lived experience perspectives of acceptance and commitment therapy for people with psychosis.
"This study aimed to explore participants experiences of acceptance and commitment therapy in daily life, and what they found helpful or unhelpful."
www.nationalelfservice.net?p=187245
"This study aimed to explore participants experiences of acceptance and commitment therapy in daily life, and what they found helpful or unhelpful."
www.nationalelfservice.net?p=187245
Lived experience perspectives of ACT for people with psychosis
Charlotte Huggett reflects on a qualitative study exploring the perspectives of people with psychosis receiving Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
www.nationalelfservice.net
March 4, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Lived experience perspectives of acceptance and commitment therapy for people with psychosis.
"This study aimed to explore participants experiences of acceptance and commitment therapy in daily life, and what they found helpful or unhelpful."
www.nationalelfservice.net?p=187245
"This study aimed to explore participants experiences of acceptance and commitment therapy in daily life, and what they found helpful or unhelpful."
www.nationalelfservice.net?p=187245
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Join us for an inspiring and practical Mad in America webinar on Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis (CT-R)—a compassionate, strengths-based approach designed to reach those struggling with so-called “negative symptoms” like low motivation and social withdrawal.
Recovery Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis: Living Well w/ Psychosis
An overview of how to engage people in moving toward recovery and living well, rather than focusing on symptoms or problems.
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May 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Join us for an inspiring and practical Mad in America webinar on Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis (CT-R)—a compassionate, strengths-based approach designed to reach those struggling with so-called “negative symptoms” like low motivation and social withdrawal.
When I was in uncertain mental places as a younger person, my biggest fear was that I would be seen through a psychiatric label and no one would try to understand me or find value in what I was saying.
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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work
Depsychiatrization is a way of reclaiming the right to be understood through a nonpathologizing, rehumanized lens.
madinamerica.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
When I was in uncertain mental places as a younger person, my biggest fear was that I would be seen through a psychiatric label and no one would try to understand me or find value in what I was saying.
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I'd like to see a similar survey for users of antipsychotics. I think it's likely they would find similar results. If that could be shown it would be more reason to strive to make any use of antipsychotics as short as possible, when it cannot be avoided. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms more common among long-term users
People who have been taking antidepressants for more than two years are substantially more likely to experience withdrawal symptoms compared to short-term users when they come off the medication, find...
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May 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I'd like to see a similar survey for users of antipsychotics. I think it's likely they would find similar results. If that could be shown it would be more reason to strive to make any use of antipsychotics as short as possible, when it cannot be avoided. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
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🚨 Important new op-ed in @thehill.com by @jjjordynjensen.bsky.social & @viscidula.bsky.social
As political leaders push forced psychiatric confinement, the federal government moves to dismantle PAIMI—one of the only safeguards against abuse in psych settings.
Read at thehill.com/opinion/heal...
As political leaders push forced psychiatric confinement, the federal government moves to dismantle PAIMI—one of the only safeguards against abuse in psych settings.
Read at thehill.com/opinion/heal...
May 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨 Important new op-ed in @thehill.com by @jjjordynjensen.bsky.social & @viscidula.bsky.social
As political leaders push forced psychiatric confinement, the federal government moves to dismantle PAIMI—one of the only safeguards against abuse in psych settings.
Read at thehill.com/opinion/heal...
As political leaders push forced psychiatric confinement, the federal government moves to dismantle PAIMI—one of the only safeguards against abuse in psych settings.
Read at thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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Here's the video of my interview with @donie.bsky.social on the Persuadable Podcast talking about coming out of the rabbit hole of conspiracy theory belief:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxb6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxb6...
May 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Here's the video of my interview with @donie.bsky.social on the Persuadable Podcast talking about coming out of the rabbit hole of conspiracy theory belief:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxb6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxb6...
Self-paced course in CBT for Psychosis, 67% off, just $29.00 till 4/25/25 with 6 CE credits (US) – or free to nonprofessionals. Respectfully help people find ways to handle distressing voices, paranoia, and altered or confused sense of reality. recoveryfrompsychosis.org/cbt-for-psyc...
CBT for Psychosis: An Individualized, Recovery Oriented Approach - Recovery from "Schizophrenia" and other "Psychotic Disorders"
This online course, with CE credits, offers and radically fresh and effective method for helping people cope with bewildering and distressing experiences.
recoveryfrompsychosis.org
April 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Self-paced course in CBT for Psychosis, 67% off, just $29.00 till 4/25/25 with 6 CE credits (US) – or free to nonprofessionals. Respectfully help people find ways to handle distressing voices, paranoia, and altered or confused sense of reality. recoveryfrompsychosis.org/cbt-for-psyc...
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RADAR trial data showed people recover to their baseline levels of function and symptoms after a relapse, suggesting the hypothesis that relapse is toxic to the brain is incorrect 1/2 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The association between relapse and the outcome of schizophrenia and recurrent psychotic disorders | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
The association between relapse and the outcome of schizophrenia and recurrent psychotic disorders
www.cambridge.org
April 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
RADAR trial data showed people recover to their baseline levels of function and symptoms after a relapse, suggesting the hypothesis that relapse is toxic to the brain is incorrect 1/2 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New review article about Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for psychosis, for a special issue of PCNA. Co-authored by Daniel Simsion at @latrobeuni.bsky.social www.psych.theclinics.com/article/S019... @myacbs.bsky.social
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a third-wave cognitive-behavioral therapy,
which focuses on acceptance, mindfulness, and values-based actions to support living
a rich and meaningful life. A...
www.psych.theclinics.com
April 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
New review article about Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for psychosis, for a special issue of PCNA. Co-authored by Daniel Simsion at @latrobeuni.bsky.social www.psych.theclinics.com/article/S019... @myacbs.bsky.social