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Beyond Madness : Psychosocial Interventions in Psychosis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Community, Culture and Change SeriesPublisher: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781846421525
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond MadnessDDC classification:
  • 616.89/1
LOC classification:
  • RC489.T67 -- B49 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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