Psychosis and The Traumatised Self: Understanding and Change - Softcover

Rhodes, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367491796 ISBN 13: 9780367491796

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

Psychosis and the Traumatised Self explores what it is like to experience psychosis for individuals with histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse.

The book additionally explores how meaning expressed in psychosis might originate from the effects of abuse, but also long-term life difficulties, motivations, memories, social history, and struggles to narrate and understand. One chapter focuses on refugees who suffered trauma as adults and later became psychotic. Another chapter examines how trauma leads to the destruction of certainty and trust, thereby opening a pathway to persecutory ideas. Drawing on a developmental model of trauma, it is proposed that dissociated parts of the self that developed during childhood contribute to psychosis in adults when undergoing difficulties and stress.

Presented with case illustrations, the book will be useful for those who work in the area of psychosis and abuse to understand the experiences of individuals, and how we might develop appropriate therapy and care.

About this title

About the Author

John Rhodes is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. He wrote Narrative CBT: Distinctive Features (2014) and co-authored Narrative CBT for Psychosis (2009). He has published articles in the areas of psychosis, trauma, and depression.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367491796
• ISBN 13: 9780367491796
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192