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Psychosis : Understanding and Treatment by Jane Ellwood is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Psychosis : Understanding and Treatment about?

Bringing together a number of pioneering thinkers and workers in the field of psychosis, this book attempts to provide an interrogation of 'official theories' surrounding schizophrenia and to examine the range of ways in which psychosis can be thought about and worked with. The first part of the book, which deals with the meaning of psychosis, presents papers on the development of psychosis from historical, social, theoretical and emotional perspectives. It explains current psychoanalytical ideas of the meaning of psychosis and looks at the ways in which psychoanalytic theorists have found meaning in the communications of psychotic patients. The more clinically oriented papers in the second part of the book focus on the treatment of psychosis. These describe ongoing work in therapeutic settings with people diagnosed as being schizophrenic, as well as the effects on staff working with psychotic patients. This is an encouraging and stimulating book for students and professionals in the field of psychosis, who often feel isolated in their efforts to understand their patients.

Author

Jane Ellwood

Publisher

London ; Bristol, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781853022654

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Medicine