harrow doc james correctly reverted my removal of text cited to harrow noting that it is in fact a review although pubmed does not indicate so however imo the text in the article is too strong for what the source supports conclusions from pmid harrow overall the longitudinal studies cited do not provide conclusive proof of a causal relationship between being off medications and being psychosis free they do clearly indicate that not all schizophrenia patients need continuous antipsychotics for a prolonged period providing extensive evidence of samples of medication free schizophrenia patients with favorable outcomes is it at least a moderate sized number of schizophrenia patients who do well longitudinally without medications this important issue needs longitudinal research for more precise answers the longitudinal studies indicate the importance of further research on how many schizophrenia patients profit from continuous administration of antipsychotics over a prolonged period what factors identify and separate schizophrenia patients who do not need prolonged antipsychotic treatment and whether or not prolonged use of antipsychotics is harmful for some or many patients the above cited longitudinal results from many different countries and different types of schizophrenia patients provide data bearing on issues about long term treatment discussions by whitaker moncrieff and others question long term antipsychotic treatment these disparate views research by who and dosmed in developing countries and our own longitudinal studies should be considered as prompts for further long term outcome research on this important issue this is not a strongly worded conclusion where our article presents as fact what this article appears to be raising as an important question in need of further study i continue to believe this is not a strong enough source for the cited text clearly further research on this controversial matter is needed can we either eliminate this source or reword the text to better match the strongest conclusion of this paper is that further study is needed regards talk