Voices In Psychosis

Author : Angela Woods,Ben Alderson-Day,Charles Fernyhough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780192653451

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Voices in Psychosis by Angela Woods,Ben Alderson-Day,Charles Fernyhough Pdf

Voice-hearing experiences associated with psychosis are highly varied, frequently distressing, poorly understood, and deeply stigmatised, even within mental health settings. Voices in Psychosis responds to the urgent need for new ways of listening to and making sense of these experiences. It brings multiple disciplinary, clinical, and experiential perspectives to bear on an original and extraordinarily rich body of testimony: transcripts of forty in-depth phenomenological interviews conducted with people who hear voices and who have accessed Early Intervention in Psychosis services. The book addresses the social, clinical, and research contexts in which the interviews took place, thoroughly investigating the embodied, multisensory, affective, linguistic, spatial, and relational qualities of voice-hearing experiences. The nature, politics, and consequences of these analytic endeavours is a focus of critical reflection throughout. Each chapter gives a multifaceted insight into the experiences of voice-hearers in the North East of England and to their wider resonance in contexts ranging from medieval mysticism to Amazonian shamanism, from the nineteenth-century novel to the twenty-first century survivor movement. By deepening and extending our understanding of hearing voices in psychosis in a striking way, the book will be an invaluable resource not only for academics in the field, but for mental health practitioners and members of the voice-hearing community. An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence.

Author : Marius Romme,Sandra Escher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136620997

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Psychosis as a Personal Crisis by Marius Romme,Sandra Escher Pdf

Psychosis as a Personal Crisis seeks to challenge the way people who hear voices are both viewed and treated. This book emphasises the individual variation between people who suffer from psychosis and puts forward the idea that hearing voices is not in itself a sign of mental illness. In this book the editors bring together an international range of expert contributors, who in their daily work, their research or their personal acquaintance, focus on the personal experience of psychosis. Further topics of discussion include: accepting and making sense of hearing voices the relation between trauma and paranoia the limitations of contemporary psychiatry the process of recovery. This book will be essential reading for all mental health professionals, in particular those wanting to learn more about the development of the hearing voices movement and applying these ideas to better understanding those in the voice hearing community.

Author : Katherine M. Boydell,H. Bruce Ferguson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781554583102

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Hearing Voices by Katherine M. Boydell,H. Bruce Ferguson Pdf

Qualitative methods are increasingly useful as psychiatry shifts from a focus on symptom reduction to enabling people to live satisfying and meaningful lives. It becomes important to achieve a deeper understanding of the ways in which mental illness interferes with everyday life and the ways in which people can learn to manage and minimize illness in order to pursue their lives as fully as possible. Although qualitative methods in psychiatry have seen a dramatic upsurge, relatively few published studies use such methods specifically to explore the lives, socio-culturally and experientially, of those with first-episode psychosis. This book highlights qualitative research in early psychosis. The first half of the book centres on the individual lived experience of psychosis—from the perspective of the individual, the family, and the practitioner. The second half moves from the micro level to the macro, focusing on broader system issues, including medical trainees’ encounters with first-episode psychosis in the emergency room and the implementation of first-episode clinics in the UK and Australia. This text is timely, as the proliferation of early-psychosis clinics worldwide demands that we inquire into the subjective experience of those impacted by psychosis and the social contexts within which it occurs and is lived out. Hearing Voices is the first in a series of titles from The Community Health Systems Resource Group at The Hospital for Sick Children. This series will educate researchers, policy-makers, students, practitioners, and interested stakeholders on such topics as early intervention in psychosis, aggressive-behaviour problems, eating-related disorders, and marginalized youth in educational contexts.

Author : Simon McCarthy-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107007222

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Hearing Voices by Simon McCarthy-Jones Pdf

A comprehensive exploration of the history, phenomenology, meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations).

Author : Anne Cooke
Publisher : BPS Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1854337483

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Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia by Anne Cooke Pdf

This report provides an overview of the current state of knowledge about why some people hear voices, experience paranoia or have other experiences seen as 'psychosis'. It also describes what can help. In clinical language, the report concerns the 'causes and treatment of schizophrenia and other psychoses'. In recent years we have made huge progress in understanding the psychology of what had previously often been thought of as a largely biological problem, an illness. Much has been written about the biological aspects: this report aims to redress the balance by concentrating on the psychological and social aspects, both in terms of how we understand these experiences and also what can help when they become distressing. We hope that this report will contribute to a fundamental change that is already underway in how we as a society think about and offer help for 'psychosis' and 'schizophrenia'. For example, we hope that in future services will no longer insist that service users accept one particular view of their problem, namely the traditional view that they have an illness which needs to be treated primarily by medication. The report is intended as a resource for people who work in mental health services, people who use them and their friends and relatives, to help ensure that their conversations are as well informed and as useful as possible. It also contains vital information for those responsible for commissioning and designing both services and professional training, as well as for journalists and policy-makers. We hope that it will help to change the way that we as a society think about not only psychosis but also the other kinds of distress that are sometimes called mental illness. This report was written by a working party mainly comprised of clinical psychologists drawn from the NHS and universities, and brought together by their professional body, the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology. This report draws on and updates an earlier one, Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Psychotic Experiences, which was published in 2000 and was widely read and cited. The contributors are leading experts and researchers in the field; a full listing with affiliations is given at the end of the report. More than a quarter of the contributors are experts by experience - people who have themselves heard voices, experienced paranoia or received diagnoses such as psychosis or schizophrenia. At the end of the report there is an extensive list of websites, books and other resources that readers might find useful, together with list of the academic research and other literature that the report draws on.

Author : Sean Spence,Anthony S. David
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Auditory hallucinations
ISBN : 1841699632

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Voices in the Brain by Sean Spence,Anthony S. David Pdf

For millennia, human beings have reported hearing 'voices'. These experiences have been a source of fascination, sometimes because they spoke of revelation, sometimes because they presaged madness and destruction. From Socrates to the Yorkshire Ripper the impact of voices upon human society has been considerable. But after all this time what can we really say about their causes, their meaning and their treatment? In this special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Spence and David have edited a contemporary synthesis of what is known about voices ('auditory verbal hallucinations', AVH). Contributions are drawn from an internationally renowned panel of authors, most of whom contributed to a symposium held in Sheffield, England in September 2002 ('Voices in the Brain: the cognitive neuropsychiatry of auditory verbal hallucinations'). Topics included in this special issue are: a contemporary voice hearer's perspective on voices and their treatment (Cockshutt); a phenomenological-hermeneutic interpretation of the content of 'voice speech' (Bracken, Leudar & Thomas); a review of the evidence for cognitive interventions used to treat AVH in a group setting (Wykes); a structured literature review of evidence for and against 3 cognitive models of AVH (Seal, Aleman & McGuire); a review of the functional neuroimaging literature on AVH and proposed directions for future discovery (Woodruff); the use of 'virtual acoustics' to model hallucinations in healthy subjects in the brain scanner (Hunter); a critique of contrasting cognitive models of the AVH phenomenon (David), an evolutionary account of schizophrenic voices and the place of language in human speciation (Crow); and the phenomenology of a saint who was burned at the stake.

Author : Paul Chadwick,Max J. Birchwood,Peter Trower
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : UCSC:32106013099905

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Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia by Paul Chadwick,Max J. Birchwood,Peter Trower Pdf

Psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and nurses are increasingly involved in treatments which include psychological therapy, and particularly cognitive therapy, for serious mental disorders. The aim of this book is to guide such professionals towards better practice by treating the individual symptoms of delusions, voices and paranoia, rather than by the categorisation of schizophrenia. The authors provide an introduction to their cognitive model and show how therapy depends crucially on the collaborative relationship with the client. While earlier approaches to these distressing symptoms depended on an overall model of schizophrenia which emphasised fundamental discontinuities with normal thought and psychological processes, the authors? approach is supported by substantial research that indicates that delusions, voices and paranoia lie on a continuum of differences in thought and behaviour, and do not arise from fundamentally different psychological processes. This book offers a practical, research-based and essentially hopeful approach to the assessment and treatment of psychotic disorders and also an argument for the development of a person model for treatment, which is based on the person?s enduring psychological vulnerabilities. This book appears in The Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology Series Editor: J. Mark G. Williams University of Wales, Bangor, UK

Author : Alan Meaden,Nadine Keen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780415625289

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Cognitive Therapy for Command Hallucinations by Alan Meaden,Nadine Keen Pdf

This new work provides clinicians with a detailed guide illustrating in depth the techniques and strategies developed for working with command hallucinations.

Author : Anne Cooke (editor)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1854337289

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Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia by Anne Cooke (editor) Pdf

Author : Simon McCarthy-Jones
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784505417

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Can't You Hear Them? by Simon McCarthy-Jones Pdf

The experience of 'hearing voices', once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild. Yet an alternative account, forged predominantly by people who hear voices themselves, argues that hearing voices is an understandable response to traumatic life-events. There is an urgent need to overcome the tensions between these two ways of understanding 'voice hearing'. Simon McCarthy-Jones considers neuroscience, genetics, religion, history, politics and not least the experiences of many voice hearers themselves. This enables him to challenge established and seemingly contradictory understandings and to create a joined-up explanation of voice hearing that is based on evidence rather than ideology.

Author : Andrea Lefebvre,Richard W. Sears,Jennifer M. Ossege
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351381314

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Group Therapy for Voice Hearers by Andrea Lefebvre,Richard W. Sears,Jennifer M. Ossege Pdf

Based on extensive interviews with expert facilitators from around the world and grounded in empirical evidence, Group Therapy for Voice Hearers includes numerous tips, strategies, case examples, and reflection questions to bring the material to life in a practical way. Chapters address the need for practical, accessible training in how to facilitate sessions and identify six key factors that lead to a successful session: safety, flexibility, empowerment, the integration of lived experience, self-awareness, and attention to the needs of the group process. This book is an important resource for mental health professionals working with clients who hear voices.

Author : Mark Hayward,Clara Strauss,Simon McCarthy-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317622260

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Psychological Approaches to Understanding and Treating Auditory Hallucinations by Mark Hayward,Clara Strauss,Simon McCarthy-Jones Pdf

This book draws on clinical research findings from the last three decades to offer a review of current psychological theories and therapeutic approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations, addressing key methodological issues that need to be considered in evaluating interventions. Mark Hayward, Clara Strauss and Simon McCarthy-Jones present a historical narrative on lessons learnt, the evolution of evidence bases, and an agenda for the future. The text also provides a critique of varying therapeutic techniques, enabling practice and treatment decisions to be grounded in a balanced view of differing approaches. Chapters cover topics including: behavioural and coping approaches cognitive models of voice hearing the role of self-esteem and identity acceptance-based and mindfulness approaches interpersonal theory. Psychological Approaches to Understanding and Treating Auditory Hallucinations brings together and evaluates diffuse literature in an accessible and objective manner, making it a valuable resource for clinical researchers and postgraduate students. It will also be of significant interest to academic and clinical psychologists working within the field of psychotic experiences.

Author : M. A. J. Romme,Sandra Escher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Auditory hallucinations
ISBN : 1874690863

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Making Sense of Voices by M. A. J. Romme,Sandra Escher Pdf

Just under 10 years ago, the authors triggered a seismic shift in the understanding of voice-hearing. They put the powerful case for accepting and validating people's own interpretations of their voices, and showed how such interpretations often enabled people to live with them far more effectively than bio-medical approaches. This handbook for practitioners builds on this work. It combines examples with guidance on the various processes involved in enabling voice-hearers to deal with their voices and lead an active and fulfilling life.

Author : John Witham Casson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1583918043

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Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis by John Witham Casson Pdf

This work explores the use of drama and theatre in the challenging area of working with people who hear voices, focusing especially on survivors of abuse and those diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.

Author : Lisa Blackman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Auditory hallucinations
ISBN : 1853435333

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Hearing Voices by Lisa Blackman Pdf

In a book devoted to radical reform of psychiatry by developing a postmodern critical psychology, Blackman goes beyond the claim that psychiatry is moving toward a more holistic model to explore the sources of both its biochemical and social construction explanations of mental illness. She does so via a case study of the Hearing Voices Network, an international group which challenges the view that their hallucinations should be considered solely as symptoms of psychosis. Based on graduate research in the early 1990s at Goldsmiths College, London. The author's present affiliation is not stated. The book is distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.