The Collected Writings of Marcia A. Murphy: Christus Magnus Medicus Sanat

The psychotic break occurred when I was in the vulnerable twenties for me a naive time of adventure and risks; and I was devastated. Only later was I to learn that psychotic episodes and hallucinations may have real-world significance. My own experience told me this but the view of scientific psychiatry that was drummed into me by family counselors doctors etc. made me doubt. Yet I knew something momentous had happened and I wanted to know what and what it meant for my life. The search took me to the library--the public library the university library the health sciences library--and there I found books that some of them told a different story. There I was to learn that the mind is more than the workings of the material brain. I was to find that mental illness including psychotic episodes can be a means of personal transformation and may have spiritual significance.