Healing the Distress of Psychosis: Listening with Psychotic Ears

Description

Healing the Distress of Psychosis focuses on practice-based and evidence-informed interventions to effectively understand and communicate with people who are experiencing psychotic symptoms.

The text thoughtfully describes: the experience of psychosis, as well as the unique intervention method of fostering the therapeutic relationship; and the psychotic thought process from neurological, linguistic, and existential-psychological perspectives. Mental health professionals, individuals with lived psychotic experiences, and their family members and loved ones will find this book to be a strong and accurate voice that highlights the past and present disappointments in mainstream public mental health treatment, while delivering hope in creating a secure, self-determined life.

Key Features:

• Includes case examples to illustrate concepts
• Highlights the work of like-minded theorists and authors from throughout history
• Documents what mental health treatment consumers are saying about their histories and the effective and humane interventions that they seek