Dear Faldage: Scizophrenia is just not a single disease. and no nutty shrink talk therapy helps it a goddam bit. I think that the fact that drugs can help eventually determine where the anatomical, cellular, and chemical disturbances are. I worked as an attendant in the thirties, when you had no way of knowing when you might be viciously assaulted. The biggest single thing the drugs have done is to greatly diminish that problem.
I know very little about shamanism. Those guys couldn't even pass along than a fraction of what they learned. You mentioned control. Shamanism was a form of religion, and control is what is at the roots of all religion. The elite trying to control the slobs. Not entirely an esaggeration.
Incidfentally, where did ;everybody else go? The board is really dead today.