Deconstructing psychosis conference February 2006 : the validity of schizophrenia and alternative approaches to the classification of psychosis / Judith Allardyce [und weitere] -- Biological, life course, and cross-cultural studies all point toward the value of dimensional and d…
This practical handbook, aimed at mental health professionals and administrators, covers rationale for early intervention, key elements of an early psychosis and starting a new early psychosis service.
This practical handbook, aimed at mental health professionals and administrators, covers rationale for early intervention, key elements of an early psychosis and starting a new early psychosis service.
A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of psychosis. Compelling …
"In Madness Explained clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis. This work argues that we cannot define madness as an illness to be cured like any other, that labels such as 'schizophrenia' and 'manic depression' are meaningless, bas…
Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award 2004. Is madness purely a medical condition that can be treated with drugs? Is there really a clear dividing line between mental health and mental illness, or is it not so easy to classify who is sane and who is insane? In M…
"In this work Richard P. Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround madness, showing that there is no clear, reassuring dividing line between mental health and mental illness. He demonstrates that labels such as 'schizophrenia' and 'manic depression' are meaningless, based …
[Forlagets beskrivelse] 'Psychosis in the Elderly' addresses the practical and ethical issues that arise when managing psychotic elderly patients in the community, as well as the sequelae of stigmatization and carer stress.
Across the spectrum of psychopathology in later life, psychotic symptomatology has been the most neglected, and although literature in this area is increasing, this is the first book to address the need for an overarching framework to examine and understand late-life psychotic p…
