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Recommended Books on Psychosis
Come with Me to the Land of Post-Partum Psychosis AN OPEN LETTER TO RUSSELL YATES As the husband of Andrea Yates who drowned her children to save them from life, I always thought it was remarkable how you hung in there in the face of that tragedy. You told us what a wonderful wife and mother she was, of her post-partum problems after each baby, so close together. We knew she had nursed them and home-schooled them. And the awful failure of medicine to help! But now you tell us you are dating, and even if she wins acquittal in her new trial and is freed, I cannot forgive her for what she has done to me. What do you mean, TO YOU? Whatever she has done to you she has done to herself many times over. Have you forgotten how sick she was? As sick as anyone has ever been
or can ever imagine being!M As the guardian of that family, WHERE WERE YOU? I admit to prejudice and naivety, but I pray for her jury this time will be true peers. At the very least, women. Mothers. Or best of al, those who have been there. Remember, Russell, the whole world is watching. MEDICAL NOTE: The simple testing described in this book was the forerunner of several methods which have now proven more useful and less cumbersome
and would eventually widen the handling of such important disorders as CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, CHRONIC FATIGUE, FIBROMYALGIA, ASTHMA, ARTHRITIS, LOSS OF LIBIDO, MENSTRUAL DIFFICULTIES and MENT ILLNESSES such as NEUROSIS, BI-POLAR, TOXIC PSYCHOSIS, AUTISM and SCHIZOPHRENIA. S. Crawford Duhon, Enviromental M.D.
The Verge of Psychosis: An Aspiring Actor's Journal This sarcastic Hollywood satire chronicles the life of delusional aspiring actor, Trott Felipe, as he navigates through the Hollywood underbelly without a clue. As told through Trott's own personal journal entries, it's a story of naivety, unreality and...revenge?
Society and Psychosis Psychiatry is in the process of rediscovering its roots. It seemed as if the long history of interest in the impact of society on the rates and course of serious mental illness had been forgotten, overtaken by the advances of neuroscience and genetics. However, as our knowledge of physiological and genetic processes improves it becomes increasingly clear that social conditions and experiences over the life course are crucial to achieving a full understanding. Old controversies are giving way to genuinely integrated models in which social, psychological and biological factors interact over time, culminating in the onset of psychosis. This book reviews these issues from an international perspective, laying the foundations for a new understanding of the psychotic disorders, with profound implications for health policy and clinical practice. It should be read by all members of the mental health team and those responsible for service organization and management.This book reviews social conditions and experiences over the life course from an international perspective, laying the foundations for a new understanding of the psychotic disorders, with profound implications for health policy and clinical practice and describes a new understanding of psychosis integrating biological, psychological and social factors.
Psychological Interventions in Early Psychosis: A Treatment Handbook Psychological Interventions in Early Psychosis provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging research and clinical evidence base for psychological treatments across the phases of early psychosis. Beginning with identified at-risk young people, the text continues through to those in acute and recovery phases, to the needs of patients with persistent symptoms.
This practical treatment handbook:
- draws upon the expertise of several internationally recognised clinical and research programs
- integrates reviews of the relevant research literature with illustrative case examples
- covers critical issues for the clinician in focal chapters on suicide prevention, comorbid cannabis abuse, and family work
- describes several modalities of treatment, such as multi-family psychoeducation, group work, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural approaches.
Specialist early psychosis services are developing rapidly worldwide. Psychological Interventions in Early Psychosis will be an essential resource for clinicians and service leaders alike.Drawing on the expertise of international experts, this practical treatment manual guides mental health professionals in helping first-episode psychotic clients. Chapters are organized according to phase of illness, starting with the pre-psychotic "at risk" phase and extending to protracted recovery from psychotic symptoms.
Trauma & Psychosis: New Directions for Theory and Therapy Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis provides clinicians with a comprehensive cognitive model that can be applied to all patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or related disorders in order to aid the development of a formulation that will incorporate all relevant factors. It promotes an understanding of an individual's difficulties within a cognitive framework, illustrates the process of assessment, formulation and intervention and highlights potential difficulties arising from work with patients and how they can be overcome.
Illustrated by excerpts from therapy sessions, this book digests scientific evidence and theory, but moreover provides clinicians with essential practical advice about how to best aid people with psychoses in reducing their distress and improving their quality of life.
Invisible Boundaries: Psychosis and Autism in Children and Adolescents (EFPP Series (European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy)) The chapters of this book, all written by experienced psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists, address different aspects of the psychotherapeutic treatment with psychotic children or adolescents. This volume collects the main contributions to the fourth conference of the child and adolescent section of the EFPP, held in Caen, France in September 2001, on the general topic of "Psychotic Children and Adolescents and their Families."
Anne Alvarez's contribution reflects her long experience in treating autistic and psychotic children and adolescents, as well as her profound understanding of the relevance of recent developmental research to the understanding of psychopathology. Britta Blomberg draws on the treatment of two children with autism in her meticulous study of the development of the concepts of space and time and of the theory of mind. Julia Pestalozzi refers to the idea of psychotic functioning in adolescence--as proposed by Moses and Egle Laufer--that adolescents in a state of "psychotic functioning" have their body image profoundly split between the pregenital body image of childhood and the sexual body image of adolescence. In his contribution, Didier Houzel describes a very early splitting in autistic children between the male and female components of the containing object, which prevents the transformation of his/her sensory experiences into thinkable elements and, therefore, the construction of an inner world. Suzanne Maiello discusses Houzel's contribution in reference to her description of the prenatal experience of a sound object by the fetus. The volume ends with two "conversations" with senior clinicians. The work of both Geneviève Haag and Raymond Cahn is not widely translated into English. The publication of this volume is therefore a welcome opportunity to present aspects of their work to an English-speaking audience.
Contributors: Anne Alvarez, Britta Blomberg, Raymond Cahn, Geneviève Haag, Didier Houzel, Suzanne Maiello, Julia Pestalozzi, and Maria Rhode
Suffering Insanity: Psychoanalytic Essays on Psychosis Psychiatric institutions have always been places of fear and awe. Madness impacts on family, friends and relatives, but also those who provide a caring environment, whether in large institutions of the past, or community care in the present. This book explores the effects of the psychotic patient's suffering on carers and the culture of psychiatric services.
Suffering Insanity is arranged as three essays. The first concerns staff stress in psychiatric services, exploring how the impact of madness demands a personal resilience as well as careful professional support, which may not be forthcoming. The second essay attempts a systematic review of the nature of psychosis and the intolerable psychotic experience, which the patient attempts to evade, and which the carer must confront in the course of daily work. The third essay returns to the impact of psychosis on the psychiatric services, which frequently configure in ways which can have serious and harmful effects on the provision of care. In particular, service may succumb to an unfortunate schismatic process resulting in sterile conflict, and to an assertively scientific culture, which leads to an unwitting depersonalization of patients.
Suffering Insanity makes a powerful argument for considering care in the psychiatric services as a whole system that includes staff as well as patients; all need attention and understanding in order to deliver care in as humane a way as possible. All those working in the psychiatric services, both in large and small agencies and institutions, will appreciate that closer examination of the actual psychology and interrelations of staff, as well as patients, is essential and urgent.
Early Intervention in Psychosis: A Guide to Concepts, Evidence and Interventions (Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology) The early recognition and treatment of psychosis--particularly in adolescents and young adults--is increasingly accepted as an important factor in the individual experience of mental illness, which can have major implications for mental health care and treatment. This book is one of the first books available on the treatment of psychosis.
Welcome to the Dance: Caffeine Allergy - A Masked Cerebral Allergy and Progressive Toxic Dementia A century overdue! At last, a book on caffeine toxicity - diagnosed as ADHD, OCD, anxiety, panic, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, TMJD, PMS, and more.
A Casebook of Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis This book is a unique volume in which leading clinicians and researchers in the field of cognitive therapy for psychosis illustrate their individual approaches to the understanding of the difficulties faced by people with psychosis and how this informs intervention.
Chapters include therapies focused on schizophrenia and individual psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions (including paranoia). Beck's original case study of cognitive therapy for psychosis from 1952 is reprinted, accompanied by his 50-year retrospective analysis. Also outlined are treatments for:
BL bipolar disorder BL dual diagnosis BL schema-focused approaches BL early intervention to prevent psychosis BL adherence to medication
This book will be useful to clinicians and researchers alike, and will be an invaluable resource to mental health practitioners working with individuals experiencing psychosis.
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