ISPS Book Series Titles
We have a special relationship with ‘The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis’ who produce this series of titles and often provide bookstalls for their UK events. We always offer the books in this series at 20% off the normal retail prices.
The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-Risk Conditions
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This book is the first ethnography of the little-known world of clozapine clinics in Australia and the United Kingdom. Anthropologist Julia Brown engages with the narratives of people living in extreme health circumstances to challenge some of the assumptions made about clozapine treatment and to explore what it means to be diagnosed with ‘treatment-resistant schizophrenia.
Toxic Interactions and the Social Geography of Psychosis: Reflections on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorder
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Toxic Interactions is a review of quantitative research revealing how urban living, trauma, ethnicity, stress and familial influence the risk of troubling psychotic experiences.
Community-Based Mental Healthcare for Psychosis: From Homelessness to Recovery and Continued In-home Support
Our Price: €28.83 (with free UK delivery)
This eye-opening book explores the need for, and how to successfully organize, community mental health teams that provide in-home care and treatment for people experiencing mental health difficulties, particularly those suffering with psychosis.
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Developing Trauma Informed Services for Psychosis: A Multidisciplinary Journey Towards Healing
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A multidisciplinary group of clinicians explore the connections between traumatic experiences and psychosis, charting the development of a series of interventions designed for both inpatients and outpatients over the course of two decades.
Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self: Understanding the Individual Development of Psychosis as a Basic Self-disturbance
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Møller sheds light on the inner aspects of psychosis and psychosis risk, and its core experiential phenomena as a method of understanding the individual early psychosis development.
Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia: The Phenomenology of Urhomelessness
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This volume presents a novel, international research study that reconceptualizes schizophrenia through an investigation of ways in which the first-hand experiences of those with a diagnosis differ from conventional diagnostic definitions.
Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis Reflections on Trauma, Use of Power and Re-visioning Psychiatry
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This book offers first-person accounts of the experience of psychosis from the inside and the outside, through the eyes of two doctors, one of whom has experienced psychosis and both of whom have worked for decades in the field of psychiatry.
Open Dialogue for Psychosis: Organising Mental Health Services to Prioritise Dialogue, Relationship and Meaning
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This title is highly readable and provides a comprehensive examination of the use of Open Dialogue as a treatment for psychosis. It presents the basic principles and practice of Open Dialogue, explains the training needed to implement it and explores how it is being offered internationally.
The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis: Contributions from Metacognitive and Mentalization Based Oriented Psychotherapy
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The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis moves beyond approaches which dictate what health is to persons with psychosis through education. It will be essential reading for all clinical psychologists and psychotherapists working with people diagnosed with psychosis.
Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions
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Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions is the first book to provide a practical guide to using attachment theory in the assessment, formulation and treatment of a range of psychological problems that can arise as a result of experiencing psychosis.
Personal Experiences of Psychological Therapy for Psychosis and Related Experiences
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Personal Experiences of Psychological Therapy for Psychosis and Related Experiences uniquely presents personal accounts of those who have received therapy for psychosis alongside professional clinical commentary on these therapies, giving multiple perspectives on what they involve and how they work.
CBT for Psychosis: Process-orientated Therapies and the Third Wave
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Written by some of the leading figures in the world of CBT for psychosis, CBT for Psychosis: Process-orientated Therapies and the Third Waveprovides the reader with a concise introduction to the field and brings them up-to-date with the latest developments.
Art Therapy for Psychosis
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Art Therapy for Psychosis presents innovative theoretical and clinical approaches to psychosis that have developed in the work of expert clinicians from around the world. It draws on insights that have emerged from decades of clinical practice to explain why and how specialised forms of art therapy constitute a particularly appropriate psychotherapeutic approach to psychosis.
Psychosis, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in Post War USA: On the Borderland of Madness
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Covering the last four decades of the 20th century, this book explores the unwritten history of the struggles between psychoanalysis and psychiatry in postwar USA, inaugurated by the neosomatic revolution, which had profound consequences for the treatment of psychotic patients.
Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People: The Work of Murray Jackson
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Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People will be fascinating reading for psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, other psychoanalytically informed professionals, students and anyone interested in the relationship between creativity and psychosis.
Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: Specific Techniques
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In this unique book, Andrew Lotterman describes a creative approach to the psychotherapy of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis.
Insanity and Divinity: Studies in Psychosis and Spirituality
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Each section includes discussion of the hinterland between madness and religious experience from the perspective of a number of religions, autobiographical accounts of those who have experienced a psychosis in which spirituality played a key part and a comprehensive review of the position of psychology research into the meaning and function of spirituality in relation to the psychoses.
Psychosis and Emotion: The role of emotions in understanding psychosis, therapy and recovery
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Psychosis and Emotion offers extensive clinical material and cutting-edge research. With thorough coverage of contemporary thinking, including psychoanalytic, cognitive, developmental, evolutionary and neurobiological, this book will be a valuable resource to clinicians and psychological therapists working in the field.
Surviving, Existing, or Living: Phase-specific therapy for severe psychosis
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Surviving, Existing, or Living offers a detailed guide to help individuals experiencing psychosis move from suffering to recovery, beyond surviving or existing toward more fully living. The book will be essential reading for professionals in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, counseling, medicine, social work, nursing, occupational, recreational, and vocational therapies, experience-based experts, and students.
Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Psychosis (2nd Edition)
Our Price: €41.33 (with free UK delivery)
It brings together thirty-seven contributors from ten countries and a wide range of scientific disciplines. It provides an evidence-based, optimistic antidote to the pessimism of biological psychiatry. Models of Madness will be essential reading for all involved in mental health, including service users, family members, service managers, policy makers, nurses, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychoanalysts, social workers, occupational therapists, art therapists.
Psychosis as a Personal Crisis: An Experience-Based Approach
Our Price: €35.56 (with free UK delivery)
This book will be essential reading for all mental health professionals, in particular those wanting to learn more about the development of the hearing voices movement and applying these ideas to better understanding those in the voice hearing community.
Experiencing Psychosis: Personal and Professional Perspectives
Our Price: €45.18 (with free UK delivery)
Experiencing Psychosis brings together a range of contributors who have either experienced psychosis on a personal level or conducted research into the topic. Chapters are presented in pairs providing information from both personal and research perspectives on specific aspects of psychosis including: hearing voices, delusional beliefs, and trauma as well as cultural, existential and spiritual issues. Experts from the field recognise that first and foremost psychosis is a human experience and that those who suffer from psychotic episodes must have some involvement in any genuine attempts to make sense of the experience.
CBT for Psychosis: A Symptom-based Approach
Our Price: €37.49 (with free UK delivery)
This book brings together international experts from different aspects of this fast developing field and will be of great interest to all mental health professionals working with people suffering from psychotic symptoms.
Beyond Medication: Therapeutic Engagement and the Recovery from Psychosis
Our Price: €34.60 (with free UK delivery)
This book will be essential reading for all mental health professionals working with psychosis including psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.