Psychoses

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. This sensitive and humane perspective on the nature and treatment of psychoses will be of interest to all mental health professionals interested in increasing their understanding and awareness of this subject.

ISBN 1583919937   Pages 368 ISBN13 9781583919934 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 566 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias Publication date 05 Jan 2006   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2005017913   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 616.89   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

1		Reason - a thin veil over chaos		3
2		Losing contact with reality		12
3		The concept of psychosis, delusions and hallucinations		26
4		The ego, the self and psychosis		42
5		Phases of acute psychosis : a crisis model		49
6		Neurobiological vulnerability factors		57
7		Psychodynamic vulnerability factors		73
8		Factors that trigger psychosis		88
9		Protective factors		102
10		Psychotic disorders I		108
11		Psychotic disorders II : schizophrenia - the sickness of the self		127
12		Autism spectrum disorders and childhood psychoses		147
13		Delirium, confusion and organic psychosis		152
14		The two critical periods in psychosis and the potential for recovery		158
15		Cognitive disorders and the psychotic thought process		168
16		The construction of the identity of a 'chronic schizophrenic'		185
17		Towards a bio-psycho-social model of psychoses		196
18		Traditions of thought in the history of psychiatric ideas		207
19		Attitudes in the twentieth-century treatment of psychosis		212
20		The requirements, demands and organisation of treatment for psychosis		226
21		The assessment and treatment of patients with an acute psychotic episode		233
22		Psychosis and suicide		248
23		People with long-term psychosis in the community		258
24		Pharmacological treatment of psychosis		265
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'...it should be on the reading list of every counselling and psychotherapy training.' Penny Wigram, British Journal of Psychotherapy '...essential reading for anyone working with psychotic clients.' Val Allen, Therapy Today 'I believe that this book would be an invaluable aid to any mental health professional who wants to have a broader understanding of psychosis.' - Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, Journal of Mental Health 'Dr Cullberg's Psychoses: An Integrative Perspective is clearly the result of a lifetime of study and practice of treating patients with psychoses by an unconventionally intelligent and deeply compassionate psychiatrist. Mental health professionals and family members may benefit greatly from his comprehensive, refreshing and very human integration of knowledge on the psychoses.' - John R. Bola, PhD, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

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