Evolving Psychosis

Can early, need-adapted treatment prevent the long-terms effects of psychosis? How important is phase-specific treatment? Evolving Psychosis explores the success of psycho-social treatments for psychosis in helping patients recover more quickly and stay well longer. Mental health professionals from all over the world share their clinical experience and scientific findings to shed new light on the issues surrounding need-specific treatment. They cover: The Nature of Psychosis, Early Intervention in Psychosis, Phase-Specific Treatment of Psychosis and The Need for Integration. Particular attention is paid to the how treatment can be improved with individually tailored treatment programmes, early intervention, more integration between psychological treatments, and new and better diagnostic concepts. This book incorporates new and controversial ideas which will stimulate discussion regarding the benefits of early, need-adapted treatment. It will be of interest to psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals interested in psycho-social approaches to psychosis.

ISBN 1583917233   Pages 320 ISBN13 9781583917237 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 498 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title International Society for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Publication date 23 Feb 2006   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2005053669   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 616.89   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Evolving psychosis : different stages, different treatments by Jan Olay Johannessen and Brian V. Martindale and Johan Cullberg		1
1		The recognition and optimal management of early psychosis : applying the concept of staging in the treatment of psychosis by Patrick D. McGorry		19
2		Personality and psychosis by Erik Simonsen		35
3		A post-Lacanian view of schizophrenia by Wilfried Ver Eecke		49
4		Schizophrenia : pathogenesis and therapy by Lars Thorgaard and Bent Rosenbaum		64
5		A behavioural versus a cognitive analysis of the relapse prodrome in psychosis by Louise Bywood and David M. Gresswell and Colin Robertson and Peter Elwood		81
6		Can schizophrenia be predicted phenomenologically? by Frauke Schultze-Lutter and Stephan Ruhrmann and Joachim Klosterkotter		104
7		Phase-specific group treatment for recovery in an early psychosis programme by Jean Addington and Donald Addington		124
8		Phase-specific psychosocial interventions for first-episode schizophrenia by Rachel Miller and Susan E. Mason		139
9		The use of psychodynamic understanding of psychotic states : delineating need-specific approaches by Johan Cullberg		163
10		A cognitive analytic therapy-based approach to psychotic disorder by Ian B. Kerr and Valerie Crowley and Hilary Beard		172
11		Cognitive remediation of patients with schizophrenia : does it work? by Bjorn Rishovd Rund		185
12		Finding meaning with psychosis : the contribution of psychodynamic theory and practice by Susan M. Hingley		200
13		Neglected syndromes of schizophrenia - pervasiveness, profiles, and phenomenology : an overview of associated psychiatric syndromes by Paul C. Bermanzohn		217
14		Dissociation and psychosis : the need for integration of theory and practice by Colin A. Ross		238
15		Classic literary categories as a measure of progress in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia by Ann-Louise S. Silver		255
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"The Editors have provided a useful and well-organized source of information and discussions on the varied and new treatment modalities. The attempt to relate the different treatment modalities to the different phases of the psychotic disorder is refreshing... this book [offers] valuable insights into areas which provoke a great deal of thought and further debate." - Lyn Chua, ISPS Newsletter "This book has managed successfully to combine a great spectrum of different thinking... I thoroughly recommend it as inspiring optimism in a climate increasingly dominated by short-term or reductionist treatments." - Chris Brogan - Regional Department of Psychotherapy, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK "This book challenges the reader to think again about preconceptions of psychotic illness and as such would appeal to those working with such patients." - Rachel Upthegrove, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust, Early Intervention Service, UK

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