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Beyond Madness : Psychosocial Interventions in Psychosis.

Pierides-Muller, Stella.

Beyond Madness : Psychosocial Interventions in Psychosis. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (290 pages) - Community, Culture and Change Series . - Community, Culture and Change Series .

Intro -- Beyond Madness: PsychoSocial Interventions in Psychosis -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- General Introduction -- Section One: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives -- Introduction -- 1 Working with the Dread of the Future -- 2 Beyond Medication -- 3 A Spin in the Toyota -- 4 The Power of the Play -- Section Two: Methodology -- Introduction -- 5 Conjoint Therapy -- 6 The Wednesday Meeting -- 7 Supervision in Team Work -- 8 Containing Anxiety: A Resident Therapist's Experience -- 9 The Damaged Body: Working with Self-Harm -- 10 State of the Art -- Section Three: Narratives -- Introduction -- 11 Survival or Revival? -- 12 A Fine Balance: Between Hope and Despair -- 13 Psychotic Interventions -- 14 Stepping on the Cracks -- 15 Doors at the Crisis Centre, Doors in the Mind -- 16 Then and Now -- Section Four: Authority and Money -- Introduction -- 17 Is the Arbours Crisis Centre Cost Effective? -- 18 The Hierarchical Authority Pyramid in a Therapeutic Milieu -- 19 Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

A major question facing therapists today is how to treat psychosis effectively while maintaining patients' dignity, self-respect and their psychological and social functioning. This book provides important and engaging accounts of the special personal and interpersonal care offered by the Arbours Crisis Centre and kindred facilities.

9781846421525


Crisis intervention (Mental health services) -- England -- London.
Psychoses -- Alternative treatment.
Therapeutic communities -- England -- London.


Electronic books.

RC489.T67 -- B49 2002eb

616.89/1

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