Reddit reviews Living with Voices: 50 stories of recovery

As someone doing their PhD and teaching Psychology in a University I really worry about how psychology is teaching people about mental activity and what large sampling often means - of which I hopefully have a first of a few papers coming out saying its more professional acquiescence that we often think more people are better because usually we lower the amount of time and both qualitative and valid quantitive data we get from the people we study.

Unfortunately for you, you have also pick up on a subject specifically which already has refuted the position you take. I would suggest if you want to understand Schizophrenia really well read Romme and Escher's work - personally i used a lot of the 50+ stories in [their book on recovery] (https://www.amazon.com/Living-Voices-50-stories-recovery-ebook/dp/B0148OFHY2/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483735816&sr=1-2) for my work. I would dive head first in the many people doing more qualitative work and using things like art to drive work and in some cases get large samples (insert me droning) to challenge many of the theories and ideas coming from the neurobiological side and the classical DSM side, yes small compared to the dominate cogneuro biology side but still a wealth of information.

I am currently working with theory around consciousness and some ideas from people like the social materialists to suggest that the multiple interpretations of art can still be studied and rather scientifically if we stop doing many things in psychology that keep us in a lab doing 9-5 (unfortunately when you break down some of the reasons even the maths ones most of psych is better off being more like anthropology - or at the very least, accepting that the qualitative intensive form of research often uncovers useful, meaning, valid and reliable evidence).

And don't rely back on Kelly's little scientist model - all of economic behaviour work really stamps on it, as do many criticisms of it even though it is wide spread and part of how a lot of people teach psychology (Laura Schulz actually has some good evidence for it being small data that we work well with interestingly which means, given the cognitive biases and heuristics, humans probably work better on small data than on big data to work the world out - just image if we could see the quantum superposition of things we would break probably).