Psychosis as a personal crisis
Subtitle: an experience-based approach
By: edited by Marius Romme and Sandra Escher
Series: The international society for the psychological treatments of schizophrenias and other psychoses book series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780415673310; 9780415673303
Subjects: Etiology; Psychotic Disorders; Therapy; Hallucinations; Hallucinations and illusions; Psychoses
Description: "Psychosis as a Personal Crisis seeks to challenge the way people who hear voices are both viewed and treated. This book emphasises the individual variation between people who suffer from psychosis and puts forward the idea that hearing voices is not in itself a sign of mental illness. In this book the editors bring together an international range of expert contributors, who in their daily work, their research or their personal acquaintance, focus on the personal experience of psychosis. Further topics of discussion include: - accepting and making sense of hearing voices - the relation between trauma and paranoia - the limitations of contemporary psychiatry - the process of recovery. This book will be essential reading for all mental health professionals, in particular those wanting to learn more about the development of the hearing voices movement and applying these ideas to better understanding those in the voice hearing community"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.