Psychosis and The Traumatised Self

Understanding and Change
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-49179-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Psychosis and the Traumatised Self explores what it is like to experience psychosis for individuals with histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse.

The book additionally explores how meaning expressed in psychosis might originate from the effects of abuse, but also long-term life difficulties, motivations, memories, social history, and struggles to narrate and understand. One chapter focuses on refugees who suffered trauma as adults and later became psychotic. Another chapter examines how trauma leads to the destruction of certainty and trust, thereby opening a pathway to persecutory ideas. Drawing on a developmental model of trauma, it is proposed that dissociated parts of the self that developed during childhood contribute to psychosis in adults when undergoing difficulties and stress.

Presented with case illustrations, the book will be useful for those who work in the area of psychosis and abuse to understand the experiences of individuals, and how we might develop appropriate therapy and care.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rhodes, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Psychosis and trauma; 2 Physical abuse and psychosis; 3 Sexual abuse and psychosis; 4 Refugees and psychosis; 5 Transformation of meaning in psychosis; 6 Psychosis and the fragmented self; 7 Collapse of the taken-for-granted world; 8 Therapy for psychosis and trauma; 9 Dialogue and imagery with states of self

Über Autor(innen)

John Rhodes is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. He wrote Narrative CBT: Distinctive Features (2014) and co-authored Narrative CBT for Psychosis (2009). He has published articles in the areas of psychosis, trauma, and depression.