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’.
Toxic Interactions and the Social Geography of Psychosis: Reflections on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorder
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Toxic Interactions is a review of quantitative research revealing how urban living, trauma, ethnicity, stress and familial influence the risk of troubling psychotic experiences.
The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies
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By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice.
The Psychosis and Mental Health Recovery Workbook: Activities for Young Adults from ACT, DBT, and Recovery-Oriented CBT
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Experiencing and recovering from psychosis can be isolating, especially if friends and peers can’t relate to what you are going through. With testimony from the author’s lived experience and using a range of practical therapeutic exercises that draw on ACT, DBT and Recovery-Oriented CBT, this workbook will support and inspire you throughout your recovery, and help you be the best possible advocate for yourself.
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Developing Trauma Informed Services for Psychosis: A Multidisciplinary Journey Towards Healing
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A multidisciplinary group of clinicians explore the connections between traumatic experiences and psychosis, charting the development of a series of interventions designed for both inpatients and outpatients over the course of two decades.
Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self: Understanding the Individual Development of Psychosis as a Basic Self-disturbance
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Møller sheds light on the inner aspects of psychosis and psychosis risk, and its core experiential phenomena as a method of understanding the individual early psychosis development.
Using Psychodynamic Thinking to Enhance CBT in Clients with Psychosis: A Case Study Guide
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Using Psychodynamic Thinking to Enhance CBT in Clients with Psychosis presents a comprehensive method for linking clients’ symptoms to their personal development and life problems.
Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia: The Phenomenology of Urhomelessness
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This volume presents a novel, international research study that reconceptualizes schizophrenia through an investigation of ways in which the first-hand experiences of those with a diagnosis differ from conventional diagnostic definitions.
Relating to Voices using Compassion Focused Therapy: A Self-help Companion
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This book will be a useful companion for voice-hearers as well as for their supporters and allies in their journey of self-help. It will also be of use to mental health and social service workers.
Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis Reflections on Trauma, Use of Power and Re-visioning Psychiatry
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This book offers first-person accounts of the experience of psychosis from the inside and the outside, through the eyes of two doctors, one of whom has experienced psychosis and both of whom have worked for decades in the field of psychiatry.
Psychosis and The Traumatised Self: Understanding and Change
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Psychosis and The Traumatised Self explores what it is like to experience psychosis for individuals with histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse.
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis (2nd Edition)
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This book is about choice. It is about demystifying one of the most influential myths of our age and giving people the information to make up their own minds. It opens up hope and new ways forward for anyone who has been given a diagnostic label.
Personality Disorder: From Evidence to Understanding
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This book explains how the new classification of personality disorders in the ICD-11 helps to select treatment programmes, plan long-term management and avoid adverse consequences in the treatment of this patient group.
Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture
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Kevin Volkan and Vamik Volkan present a comprehensive study of schizophrenia using a psychoanalytic lens on the existing interdisciplinary research. Over the last seventy years, mainstream research on the causes, prevalence, and treatment of schizophrenia has greatly diverged from psychoanalytic thinking. However, the emergence of the field of neuropsychoanalysis brings hope that psychoanalytic metapsychology and clinical theory may once again provide valuable insight into understanding schizophrenia.
This title is due to be published on the 12th February 2022. You can if you wish, order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.
Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice by Lucy Johnstone
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Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a challenging but ultimately inspiring read for all who are involved in mental health – whether as professionals, students, service users, relatives or interested lay people.
The Practical Handbook of Hearing Voices: Therapeutic and creative approaches
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Hearing voices, seeing visions and similar out-of-the-ordinary experiences have long intrigued and mystified humankind. The dominant scientific and medical understandings of these phenomena tend to problematise them. This ground-breaking book builds on the work of the Hearing Voices Movement and of the researchers Marius Romme and Sandra Escher in challenging this perception.
Open Dialogue for Psychosis: Organising Mental Health Services to Prioritise Dialogue, Relationship and Meaning
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This title is highly readable and provides a comprehensive examination of the use of Open Dialogue as a treatment for psychosis. It presents the basic principles and practice of Open Dialogue, explains the training needed to implement it and explores how it is being offered internationally.
The Unanswered Self: The Masterson Approach to the Healing of Personality Disorder
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This review of Masterson’s legacy cites his later integration of neurobiology as well as attachment theory, and considers inclusion of such post-Masterson concepts as self-state theory. Clinical examples are offered throughout to illustrate this dynamic approach to a therapeutic challenge now at the forefront of today’s caseloads.
The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis: Contributions from Metacognitive and Mentalization Based Oriented Psychotherapy
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The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis moves beyond approaches which dictate what health is to persons with psychosis through education. It will be essential reading for all clinical psychologists and psychotherapists working with people diagnosed with psychosis.
The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry (14th Edition)
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Whether in the doctor’s office, in the clinic, or on the ward, The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry, Fourteenth Edition is a must-have for psychiatrists, pharmacists, neuropharmacologists, clinical psychologists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals working in mental health, as well as trainees and students in medicine, pharmacy, and nursing.
The Octopus Man
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Written by Jasper Gibson, this deeply moving and tragi-comic, novel takes us into the complex world of voice-hearing in a bravura literary performance that asks the fundamental questions about belief, meaning, and love.
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.
A Straight Talking Introduction To The Power Threat Meaning Framework: An Alternative To Psychiatric Diagnosis
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The PTMF offers all of us the tools to create new, hopeful narratives about the reasons for our distress that are not based on psychiatric diagnosis and to find ways forward as individuals, families, social groups and whole societies.
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.
Guidance For Psychological Therapists – Enabling Conversations With Clients Taking Or Withdrawing From Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs
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This guidance seeks to provide such support in two distinct ways: firstly, it aims to support therapists in deepening their knowledge and reflection on working with the said client group. Secondly, it invites therapists to familiarise themselves with core issues relating to the role of psychiatric drugs in therapy.