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Odette Nightsky has had the courage and sensitivity to present an
alternative view of schizophrenia and of other psychotic illnesses.
She believes that people with schizophrenia are deeply spiritually
disturbed, and acutely sensitive to the world and the universe -
around them. The healing pathway she suggests is one that helps
people reclaim the ground of their being, and achieve harmony and
balance within their lives. Illnesses like schizophrenia are mysterious
- even for people like me who grew up wearing shoes of science and
have since flown in all kinds of directions trying to understand
what's going on. What I like about Odette's book, The Bridge Between
Two Worlds, is that she isn't proscriptive. She gently suggests
how she sees psychotic experiences, and then allows the possibility
of numbers of paths to healing, including the traditional ones of
medication if that's how people feel safest. Her approach is a responsible
one".
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