Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 168
- Category :
Clinical Psychology - Catalogue No : 37679
- ISBN 13 : 9780415822053
- ISBN 10 : 041582205X
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John Simpson on 06/12/2015 00:38:12
(4 out of 5)
This slender volume packs an awful lot into it. It surveys what the current understanding of psychosis is in psychiatry and challenges this without becoming an anti-psychiatry rant, which is refreshing. Throughout the book the author reflects on his own experiences of psychosis as a young man and how this relates to his exploration of evidence about recovery and treatment. I found this to be illuminating. The book summarises recent psychosis treatments and their empirical validity at the same time as it questions what value empirical research has to mental illness. I found this thought provoking. It isn't uniformly positive about recovery as he reviews potential abuses of recovery particularly in our turbulent political climate.