Psychoses: an integrative perspective
"Psychoses provides a unique perspective on the challenges associated with understanding and treating psychoses, bringing together insights and developments from medicine and psychology to give a full and balanced overview of the subject." "Johan Cullberg draws on his extensive experience working with those suffering from first-episode psychosis to investigate issues including vulnerability factors, phases of psychosis, prevention, the potential for recovery and contemporary attitudes to psycho…
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- Full title :Psychoses : an integrative perspective / Johan Cullberg ; foreword by Patrick McGorry.
Summary
"Psychoses provides a unique perspective on the challenges associated with understanding and treating psychoses, bringing together insights and developments from medicine and psychology to give a full and balanced overview of the subject." "Johan Cullberg draws on his extensive experience working with those suffering from first-episode psychosis to investigate issues including vulnerability factors, phases of psychosis, prevention, the potential for recovery and contemporary attitudes to psychosis. Particular attention is paid to how therapeutic interventions can either support or obstruct the 'self-healing' properties of many psychoses."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2006.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
Notes
"Originally published in Swedish as Psykoser: Ett integrerat perspektiv by Natur och Kultur"--Title page verso.
The Physical Object
- Description:xx, 344 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1583919929, 9781583919927, 1583919937, 9781583919934
- oclc:ocm60715257
- LC Classification:RC512
- Dewey Decimal:616.89
Table of Contents
1. Reason -- a thin veil over chaos -- 2. Losing contact with reality -- 3. The concept of psychosis, delusions and hallucinations -- 4. The ego, the self and psychosis -- 5. Phases of acute psychosis : a crisis model -- 6. Neurobiological vulnerability factors -- 7. Psychodynamic vulnerability factors -- 8. Factors that trigger psychosis -- 9. Protective factors -- 10. Psychotic disorders I -- 11. Psychotic disorders II : schizophrenia -- the sickness of the self -- 12. Autism spectrum disorders and childhood psychoses -- 13. Delirium, confusion and organic psychosis -- 14. The two critical periods in psychosis and the potential for recovery -- 15. Cognitive disorders and the psychotic thought process -- 16. The construction of the identity of a 'chronic schizophrenic' -- 17. Towards a bio-psycho-social model of psychoses -- 18. Traditions of thought in the history of psychiatric ideas -- 19. Attitudes in the twentieth-century treatment of psychosis -- 20. The requirements, demands and organisation of treatment for psychosis -- 21. The assessment and treatment of patients with an acute psychotic episode -- 22. Psychosis and suicide -- 23. People with long-term psychosis in the co…
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