Psychosis
See the full list of titles in the ‘International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis’ series on our category page – ‘ISPS Book Series’.
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs: The truth about how they work and how to come off them
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In an era when more people are taking psychiatric drugs than ever before, Joanna Moncrieff’s explosive book challenges the claims for their mythical powers.
Understanding and Caring for People with Schizophrenia: Fifteen Clinical Cases
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This book challenges professional and public misconceptions of schizophrenia as an illness with intractable symptoms and inexorable mental deterioration, educating clinicians and researchers on the effectiveness of treatment to change the course of or prevent the onset of illness.
Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions
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Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions is the first book to provide a practical guide to using attachment theory in the assessment, formulation and treatment of a range of psychological problems that can arise as a result of experiencing psychosis.
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Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatment
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In this innovative book, master clinician Michael Garrett shows how to weave together cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy to support the recovery of persons suffering from psychosis.
Recovering from a First Episode of Psychosis: An Integrated Approach to Early Intervention
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Over the 12 chapters in the book, the authors, all experienced clinicians and researchers from multi-professional backgrounds, demonstrate that long-term recovery needs to replace short term remission as the key target of early psychosis services and that, to achieve this, we need a change in the way we deliver EIP: one that takes account of the different stages of psychosis and the ‘bespoke’ targeting of integrated medical, psychological and social treatments during the ‘critical period’.
Personal Experiences of Psychological Therapy for Psychosis and Related Experiences
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Personal Experiences of Psychological Therapy for Psychosis and Related Experiences uniquely presents personal accounts of those who have received therapy for psychosis alongside professional clinical commentary on these therapies, giving multiple perspectives on what they involve and how they work.
Dramatherapy and Psychiatry
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The book is intended to be practical throughout and keeps jargon to a minimum. It is not written for professional or student dramatherapists alone, but is aimed as much at occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists and psychologists who are all involved in rehabilitation of people with mental illness.
CBT for Psychosis: Process-orientated Therapies and the Third Wave
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Written by some of the leading figures in the world of CBT for psychosis, CBT for Psychosis: Process-orientated Therapies and the Third Waveprovides the reader with a concise introduction to the field and brings them up-to-date with the latest developments.
The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry
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The revised and updated 13th edition of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry provides up-to-date information, expert guidance on prescribing practice in mental health, including drug choice, treatment of adverse effects and how to augment or switch medications.
Delivering CBT for Insomnia in Psychosis: A Clinical Guide
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This volume presents a detailed theoretical rationale and session-by-session outline for delivering Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Insomnia to people with these mental health disorders.
Art Therapy for Psychosis
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Art Therapy for Psychosis presents innovative theoretical and clinical approaches to psychosis that have developed in the work of expert clinicians from around the world. It draws on insights that have emerged from decades of clinical practice to explain why and how specialised forms of art therapy constitute a particularly appropriate psychotherapeutic approach to psychosis.
Outpatient Treatment of Psychosis: Psychodynamic Approaches to Evidence-Based Practice
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This book offers a practitioner’s guide to evidence-based practice in working with psychotic patients in an outpatient setting by clinicians and scholars who are internationally recognized for their work in treating severe psychopathology.
Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis: A Clinician’s Guide and Manual
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Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis describes a new psychological intervention, which for the first time applies emerging research from the field of positive psychology specifically to psychosis.
Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience
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Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience synthesises a narrative approach alongside an evidence-based review of current treatment by including Stephen Williams’ own personal experience as it relates to psychosis, recovery and treatment.
Trauma and Psychosis: New Directions for Theory and Therapy
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Trauma and Psychosis provides a valuable contribution to the current understanding of the possible relationships between the experience of trauma and the range of phenomena currently referred to as psychosis.
Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis: Working with the Hard to Reach
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Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis positions psychological formulation as a key organising principle for the delivery of care within multidisciplinary teams. The interventions described all have the common theme of supporting recovery and achieving goals that are of primary importance to the service user which targets interventions on broader obstacles to recovery.
Self Psychology and Psychosis: The Development of the Self during Intensive Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and other Psychoses
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In this groundbreaking volume, David Garfield and Ira Steinman bring us into the immediacy of the analyst’s consulting room in direct confrontation with the thought disorder, delusions and hallucinations of their patients grappling with psychosis.
Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis: Current Trends and Future Directions
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In Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis, Brandon Gaudiano brings together the researchers and clinicians working at the cutting edge of acceptance/mindfulness therapies for psychosis to compare and contrast emerging approaches and discuss them within the context of the more traditional cognitive-behavioral interventions.
Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People: The Work of Murray Jackson
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Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People will be fascinating reading for psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, other psychoanalytically informed professionals, students and anyone interested in the relationship between creativity and psychosis.
Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: Specific Techniques
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In this unique book, Andrew Lotterman describes a creative approach to the psychotherapy of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis.
Psychosis in Childhood and Adolescence
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Psychosis in Childhood and Adolescence offers an in-depth examination of the nature of psychosis, its risk factors and its manifestations in children and adolescents who experience a continuum of emotional disorders.
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis
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Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis? This book will help you to decide. A revolution is underway in mental health.
Psychiatry in Context: Experience, Meaning & Communities
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This book examines the central role of contexts in understanding psychosis and distress. The contexts in which we all exist, historical, cultural, social, political, economic and interpersonal, shape and give meaning to our lives for good or for bad.
Promoting Recovery in Early Psychosis: A Practice Manual
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This book explores the declaration’s five themes through contributions from a sizeable number of mental health practitioners, service-users and carers. It is designed to help those working with people experiencing psychosis at an early stage of illness to develop and implement effective early intervention skills, enabling them to examine and refine their practice. Most importantly, the book is a practical guide to delivering early intervention strategies with a unique focus on recovery. * Includes an abundance of case studies to link theory to practice