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Out of the broad range of possible causes and helpful responses to extreme states psychosis, this article focuses on the environmental and psychological aspects, primarily from a contemplative and Windhorse therapeutic perspective. While understanding that the psychological basis for spiritual development is the same for extreme states, the helpful responses presented are based on the principles that all beings are fundamentally sane and inseparable from their environment. This discussion concludes with the recognition that each person in an extreme state, no matter how confused, has the very real potential of transforming this life disruption into a highly individual path of discovering and manifesting his or her own unique, intrinsic sanity.

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Buddhist psychology contemplative psychotherapy Windhorse interfaith extreme state psychosis recovery

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