1st Edition
Telling Stories? Attachment-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Psychosis
By Sarah Benamer
Copyright 2010
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
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Telling Stories? explores the contemporary state of affairs in the understanding and treatment of psychosis. An inclusive approach to mental distress requires that in order to truly understand psychosis we must begin by listening to those who know this from the inside out; the voices and narrative of those who have been condemned as "unanalysable" and mad. Far from being fantastical, the complex... Read more
CHAPTER ONE Telling stories? Attachment-based approaches to the treatment of psychosis CHAPTER TWO A brief history of psychosis, its politics and why genetics is a cop-out CHAPTER THREE Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, CHAPTER FOUR The personal is political CHAPTER FIVE Can attachment theory help explain the relationship between childhood adversity and psychosis? CHAPTER SIX Truth is stranger than fiction—what happens to the story when no-one wants to know CHAPTER SEVEN In bits: Hearing the fragmented narratives of people who experience psychosis CHAPTER EIGHT Interprofessional collaboration: Achieving integrated care in mental health services
Biography
Sarah Benamer
