Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and ParanoiaWiley, 1996 - 212 pages 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 |
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Page 85
... thought broadcasting , and claimed to have great power . His mood was also low . Approximately one year later he was admitted following an overdose ; at this point notes indicated that he was ' preoccupied with his father's death ' over ...
... thought broadcasting , and claimed to have great power . His mood was also low . Approximately one year later he was admitted following an overdose ; at this point notes indicated that he was ' preoccupied with his father's death ' over ...
Page 87
... thought broadcasting ( I'd think of something and they'd copy it ' ) , reference ( advertising cornflakes when he was eating them in the morning ) and voices ( ' I'd pick up a pint and John Wayne would say " He's picking up his pint ...
... thought broadcasting ( I'd think of something and they'd copy it ' ) , reference ( advertising cornflakes when he was eating them in the morning ) and voices ( ' I'd pick up a pint and John Wayne would say " He's picking up his pint ...
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... thought broadcasting were not denied ; nor was he told that these behaviours were signs of schizophrenia . He was reassured that these experiences were ' real ' - it was his interpretation of them that was under scrutiny . It was ...
... thought broadcasting were not denied ; nor was he told that these behaviours were signs of schizophrenia . He was reassured that these experiences were ' real ' - it was his interpretation of them that was under scrutiny . It was ...
Contents
A cognitive view of delusions and voices | 1 |
The practice of therapy and the problem | 25 |
assessment and formulation | 45 |
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