psychosis – Page 3 – A New Vision for Mental Health

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine

Author: Editorial 13th July 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publisher says: “Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe that mental…
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Andrew Scull, asylum, books, Henry Cotton, history of psychiatry, psychiatry, psychosis, Trenton State Hospital

Want to Understand Delusions? Listen to the People Who Have Them

Author: Editorial 20th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by Grace Huckins is subtitled “A small group of schizophrenia researchers thinks that personal narratives can tell us what test scores and brain scans can’t”. It has been published by Wired. It begins: “FOR THE FIRST decades of Sohee Park’s…
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delusions, Grace Huckins, neuroscience, personal narrative, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, psychosis, qualitative research, Research, Rosa Ritunnano, schizophrenia, Sohee Park, Wired

Philosophy can help us connect, even in the face of psychosis

Author: Editorial 17th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by consultant psychiatrist Rosa Ritunnano has been published on the Psyche website. It begins: “How can you best engage with a person who has psychosis, when their beliefs seem to differ radically from your own? What if those beliefs differ…
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Culture & Society, delusions, narrative identity, philosophy, Psyche, psychosis, Rosa Ritunnano

People with psychosis can heal by rebuilding their life stories

Author: Editorial 2nd May 2022 0 Comments

This article by Henry R. Cowan has been published on the Psyche website. Although it uses the scientifically meaningless term “schizophrenia”, it nonetheless has valuable things to say. It begins: “What would you say if I asked you to tell the story…
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Henry R. Cowan, insight therapy, narrative identity, narrative structure, personal narrative, Psyche, psychology, psychosis, psychotherapy, schizophrenia

Prescribing Antipsychotics in First Episode Psychosis

Author: Editorial 22nd April 2022 0 Comments

This course by Dr. Lex Wunderink (professor at the University of Gronigen in the Netherlands) is provided for free (or else a voluntary donation) by Mad in America Continuing Education. Subtitled “Is Less More?”, the course includes: IntroductionLecture videoDownload of lecture…
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antipsychotics, first episode psychosis, Lex Wunderink, Mad in America Continuing Education, psychiatry, psychosis, Research, University of Gronigen, videos

Intensive Home Treatment for Acute Mental Disorders: An Alternative to Hospitalization

Author: Editorial 18th March 2022 0 Comments

This article by David Heath has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “In 1978, I became the medical director of a general hospital psychiatric unit serving the twin cities of Kitchener/Waterloo in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Over the next four…
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acute mental illness, affective psychosis, David Heath, intensive home treatment (IHT), Mad in America, psychosis, Research, schizophrenia, severe depression

Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully

Author: Editorial 3rd February 2022 0 Comments

This book has been been written by Isabel Clarke, a consultant clinical psychologist, with 25 years experience in the NHS, both in outpatient and inpatient. Her approach side-steps diagnosis. The publishers say: “Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully introduces the Comprehend, Cope and Connect…
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books, emotional distress, Interacting Cognitive Subsystems, Isabel Clarke, mindfulness, psychosis

Psychiatry Past & Present

Author: Editorial 15th December 2021 0 Comments

This free course (from Mad in America Continuing Education) includes two lecture videos from Dr. David Healy (professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University in Wales and a former secretary of the British Psychopharmacology Association), together with downloadable slides and more. The organisers…
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antidepressants, David Healy, history of psychiatry, Mad in America, psychiatry, psychosis, videos

HOPEnDialogue

Author: Editorial 24th November 2021 1 Comment

The organisers say : “The HOPEnDialogue study will map the centers practicing Open Dialogue worldwide, verify how closely they follow the Open Dialogue principles, and investigate the effectiveness of this approach in different contexts. The HOPEnDialogue study will map the centers…
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Finland, first episode psychosis, Open Dialogue, psychosis, Research

gameChange: virtual reality therapy for mental health issues to be delivered by the NHS

Author: Editorial 1st October 2021 0 Comments

The people at gameChange say that the VR therapy provided “allows a person to practise being in simulations of everyday situations … a café, shop, pub, street, doctor’s surgery, and a bus.” The background to this approach is described as follows:…
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anxiety, avatar therapy, gameChange, New Approaches, NIHR i4i Mental Health Challenge Award, psychosis, virtual reality, VR