Experiencing psychosis: personal and professional perspectives

Extensive Scientific Research Has Been Conducted Into Understanding And Learning More About Psychotic Experiences. However, In Existing Research The Voice Of Subjective Experience Is Rarely Taken Into Consideration. In This Book, First-person Accounts Are Brought Centre-stage And Examined Alongside Current Research To Suggest How Personal Experience Can Contribute To Professional Understanding, And Therefore The Treeatment, Of Psychosis. ...--back Cover. The Importance Of Personal Narratives In Recovery From Psychosis -- Recovery From 'psychosis' -- Hurrying Slowly : Initial Steps Towards Recovering From Psychosis -- A Cultural And Personal Perspective Of Psychosis -- Exploring Culture, Subjectivity And Psychosis -- Subjective Experience Of Spirituality And Psychosis -- Spirituality And Psychosis -- When You Have Lost Yourself, There's Really Not Very Much Left -- The Uncertainty Of Being : Existential Aspects Of The Experience Of Psychosis -- At Risk Of Developing Psychosis : A Personal Account -- At Risk Of Developing Psychosis : The Research Perspective -- My Body Remembers; I Refused : Childhood Trauma, Dissociation And Psychosis -- The Subjective Experience Of The Link Between Bad Things Happening And Psychosis : Research Findings -- The Sounds Of A Wounded World -- Myriad Voices, Myriad Meanings : Review Of The Research Into The Subjective Experience Of Hearing Voices -- Deluded Loner -- Subjective Experiences Of Delusions And Paranoia -- Negative Symptoms : More, Not Less -- The Subjective Experience Of Negative Symptoms : Characteristics Of Emotional Withdrawal -- I Called You My Brother -- The Subjective Experience And Beliefs Of Relatives Of People Who Experience Psychosis. Edited By Jim Geekie ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.