Peter Chadwick, Peter K. Chadwick

Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective

Explorations at the Outer Reaches of Human Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

This fully revised second edition of Schizophrenia: The Positive Perspective uses biographical sketches and essays to discuss schizophrenia and related conditions, providing advice on methods of coping, routes to growth, recovery and well being, and how schizophrenia can be viewed in a positive light.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780415459082
• ISBN-10: 0415459087
• Artikelnr.: 24426734

Autorenporträt

Peter K. Chadwick has lectured in psychology for the universities of Liverpool, Strathclyde, Birkbeck and Goldsmiths Colleges, London, and also for the Open University. He was Professor of Community Psychology at Boston University from 1991 to 1994. He retired from teaching in 2006 and was awarded the DSc by the University of Bristol in 2007 for his research over the past four decades

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: In Defence of Spirituality, Mysticism and Madness. Demystifying Madness and Mystifying Sanity. Parker, Cannabis and Altered States
A Positive View. Hammond, Cannabis and Altered States
The Dark Side. Getting in to Psychosis: The Story from the Inside. Getting Out of Psychosis: Hints and Strategies. Thinking at the Borderline: The `Deep Music
Theory of Reality. Desmond: Comedian Mystic. Ivo: Fugitive from Crassness. Denys: Adventures in Meaning. Reflections on the Biographical Sketches. On the Acceptance and Emotional Understanding of Psychotic Thought. Issues in Diagnosis, Therapy and Understanding. Conclusions and Overview.