Borderline
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780203421628
Subjects: Mysticism; Psychology; Paranoia
Description: Presents a study of psychosis written by someone who has both experienced and researched it formally. Professional psychologist Peter Chadwick draws upon his own personal experience of madness to provide an explanation of the psychology of paranoia and schizophrenia.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE STUDIES AND THE CASE OF DAVID B; 3 SHAFIQ; 4 MYSTICISM, DELUSION AND THE PARANORMAL; 5 THE ROUTE TO HELL AND BACK; 6 ALANA J; 7 CHRIS; 8 ALISON; 9 OVERVIEW AND REFLECTIONS ON THE CASE STUDIES; 10 THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; 11 THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; 12 IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY; 13 CONCLUSIONS AND GENERAL DISCUSSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.