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Hearing voices: embodiment and experience
- Author:
- BLACKMAN Lisa
- Publisher:
- Free Association Books
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 275p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The hearing of voices is generally regarded as indicative of mental health problems, yet there is evidence to suggest that hearing voices is far more common than believed, that many voice hearers are not suffering from mental illness, and that those who develop non psychiatric explanations of their voices may live with them quite well. This book, drawing on the experiences of the Hearing Voices Network, challenges commonly accepted perceptions of mental health and questions how it is that we come to experience and relate to ourselves as autonomous, rational human beings. The book draws on critical psychology, post structuralism, discourse theory and work on embodiment for many of its insights.
The prediction of hallucinatory predisposition in non-clinical individuals: examining the contribution of emotion and reasoning
- Authors:
- ALLEN Paul, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44(1), March 2005, pp.127-132.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Emotion, especially anxiety, has been implicated in triggering hallucinations. Reasoning processes are also likely to influence the judgments that lead to hallucinatory experiences. We report an investigation of the prediction of hallucinatory predisposition by emotion and associated processes (anxiety, depression, stress, self-focused attention) and reasoning (need for closure, extreme responding). Data were analysed from a questionnaire survey in a student population (N = 327). Higher levels of anxiety, self-focus, and extreme responding were associated with hallucinatory predisposition. Interactions between these three variables did not strengthen the predictive effect of each. Depression, stress, and need for closure were not found to be predictors of hallucinatory experience in the regression analysis. Emotional and reasoning processes may both need to be considered in the understanding of hallucinatory experience.
Loss, humiliation and entrapment as appraisals of schizophrenic illness: a prospective study of depressed and non-depressed patients
- Authors:
- ROOKE Oliver, BIRCHWOOD Max
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 37(3), September 1998, pp.259-268.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Life-events that precede the onset of unipolar depression usually involve an appraisal of loss; recent research has shown that where these events are also appraised as humiliating or involving entrapment and defeat (the absence of a way forward or failure to reaffirm an identity) they are especially potent in triggering depression. Depression in schizophrenia has not been studied from the cognitive or psychosocial perspectives. In a previous study we showed that patient's perceived loss of control and entrapment by psychotic illness (e.g. by recurring relapse) was strongly linked to depression. In this study the authors follow up the original sample of 49 patients two and half years later to examine the hypotheses using more powerful prospective methodology.
The concurrent validity of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)
- Authors:
- STARTUP Mike, JACKSON Mike C., BENDIX Sue
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41(4), November 2002, pp.417-422.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Few studies of the validity of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) have been published and none has shown how GAF ratings are associated with concurrent ratings of symptoms and social functioning. This article provides such data. The GAF can be rated reliably after minimal training. It provides a valid summary of symptoms and social functioning among schizophrenic patients provided they are not assessed when suffering from acute psychotic episodes.
Implementing psychological treatment for symptoms of psychosis in an area mental health service: the response of patients, therapists and managers
- Authors:
- FARHALL John, COTTON Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 11(5), October 2002, pp.511-522.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The effectiveness and acceptance of a cognitive based therapy for psychosis intervention that focused on coping enhancement for voices and delusions, was studied in routine practice in an ordinary mental health service. However cognitive based therapy was not seen as a high service priority and psychologists were generally allocated little additional therapy time. These findings raise issues about the dissemination of innovation into routine practice including management of change and the need to investigate the efficacy of more limited implementation of treatment packages.
Raising our voices: an account of the hearing voices movement
- Author:
- JAMES Adam
- Publisher:
- Handsell
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 178p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Gloucester
This book details the history of the Hearing Voices Network from Julian Jaynes' work on the bicarmal mind to the development of the Network. It includes chapters on: Moses - prophet or schizophrenic; the freedom to hear voices and the beginnings of the hearing voices movement; self help; who or what are the voices; psychotic and proud; cognitive psychology and hearing voices; grooming maverick psychiatrists; advocacy; and the genetics of schizophrenia.
The Borderline psychotic child: a selective integration
- Editor:
- LUBBE Trevor
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reviews the history and evolution of the borderline psychosis diagnosis for children, both in the USA and the UK, bringing the reader up to date with current clinical opinion on the subject. Uses a range of clinical case studies to attempt to harmonise US and UK views on borderline diagnosis in the light of new developments in theory at the Menninger Clinic, the Anna Freud Centre and the Tavistock Clinic.
Communication and the mentally ill patient: developmental and linguistic approaches to schizophrenia
- Editors:
- FRANCE Jenny, MUIR Niki
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 195p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines issues of communication and speech in patients with schizophrenia. Contains contributions from psychiatrists, linguists, psychologists and speech and language therapists. Demonstrates the central role that communication and language play in the diagnosis and rehabilitation of people with mental health problems and highlights the need for greater interagency cooperation.
Recovery in mental illness: broadening our understanding of wellness
- Editors:
- RALPH Ruth O., CORRIGAN Patrick W.
- Publisher:
- American Psychological Association
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 282p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
In the early 20th century, when the course of serious illness was first described, scientists offered little hope of recovery for people diagnosed with illnesses like schizophrenia. They were told to expect only continuing psychotic symptoms and progressive dementia and were given no hope of working and living independently. Since then, research has suggested more positive outcomes. This book explores what recovery means from various perspectives, including sociological models as well as qualitative studies that incorporate mental health consumers' subjective experiences. The mental health professional seeking to better understand the nature of recovery as well as what interventions and services might enhance well being and quality of life, will find a discussion of recovery as process, outcome, and natural occurrence, and an examination of evidence-based services as well as consumer-endorsed practices that may not be measurable by traditional quantitative methodologies.
Disintegration of the components of language as the path to a revision of Bleuler's and Schneider's concepts of schizophrenia: linguistic disturbances compared with first-rank symptoms in acute psychosis
- Authors:
- CECCHERINI-NELLI Alfonso, CROW Timothy J.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 182(3), March 2003, pp.233-240.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The 20th century ended without a resolution of the debate about the supremacy of Schneider's psychopathological conceptualisation of schizophrenia (the first-rank symptoms) over Bleuler's 'four As' (disorders of association and affect, ambivalence and autism). The authors assessed language disturbances and first-rank symptoms with the Clinical Language Disorder Rating Scale (CLANG) in 30 consecutive patients with acute psychosis, selected for the presence of at least one active first-rank symptom, and 15 control participants with depression but no psychotic symptoms. Strong positive correlations were found between the CLANG factor 'poverty' (of speech) and first-rank delusions of control and ('delusional perceptions') between semantic/phonemic paraphasias and verbal auditory hallucinations. Language disturbances were superior to nuclear symptoms in discriminating ICD-10 schizophrenia from other psychoses.