This video offers essential information and guidance for individuals and families coping with a schizophrenia diagnosis. The program features illuminating first-hand accounts from three people with schizophrenia and one person with schizoaffective disorder, along with commentary from treatment expert Dr. Andy Campbell. Viewers learn clear steps they can take to lead fuller, more successful lives, including how to work effectively with doctors and therapists; manage medication problems; make healthy lifestyle choices; recognize the early warning signs of relapse; and enlist needed support from family members and friends.

“This program is well-directed and edited, and the production quality is exceptional. Featuring persons with schizophrenia who present extensive educational information, the video demonstrates that people with the illness can attain a high level of functioning. It will be informative and appealing for individuals and family members learning about schizophrenia. In addition, the program will be useful as a teaching tool for a broad spectrum of students. The content is clear, accurate, and pitched neither too high for undergraduates nor too low for graduate-level students.”–Robert S. Kern, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

“This video presents an accurate portrayal of schizophrenia, while being both optimistic and realistic. It is rare to see people with the illness speak so eloquently about their experiences. Overall, the message is positive and important: people can live rich, enjoyable lives with schizophrenia, especially if they are able to learn how to manage their illness.”–Kim T. Mueser, PhD, New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center

What is Hypnosis & NLP ?

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States, in the 1970s. NLP’s creators claim there is a connection between neurological processes (neuro-), language (linguistic) and behavioral patterns learned through experience (programming), and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life. Bandler and Grinder also claim that NLP methodology can “model” the skills of exceptional people, allowing anyone to acquire those skills. They claim as well that, often in a single session, NLP can treat problems such as phobias, depression, tic disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, near-sightedness, allergy, the common cold, and learning disorders. NLP has been adopted by some hypnotherapists and also by companies that run seminars marketed as leadership training to businesses and government agencies.

There is no scientific evidence supporting the claims made by NLP advocates, and it has been discredited as a pseudoscience. Scientific reviews state that NLP is based on outdated metaphors of how the brain works that are inconsistent with current neurological theory and contain numerous factual errors. Reviews also found that all^{[dubious – discuss]} of the supportive research on NLP contained significant methodological flaws and that there were three times as many studies of a much higher quality that failed to reproduce the “extraordinary claims” made by Bandler, Grinder, and other NLP practitioners.

Dr Andy Campbell – Living with Schizophemia

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