It is well established that PTSD may develop following a traumatic experience such as war combat. In addition it has been noted that such trauma may lead to symptoms of psychosis. Childhood psychological abuse and sexual abuse have also been linked to psychosis. It may be the case that trauma predisposes to the development of psychosis and this can be compared to psychosis of neurodevelopmental...

Mental illness constitutes the second-largest disease burden in the United States. Psychosis is one of the most common and severe mental illnesses. It is an extremely devastating condition characterised by delusions, hallucinations, distortion of thoughts and deteriorating social functioning experiences. Psychosis in all human societies has approximately same incidence of occurrence as in accor...

BACKGROUND There is a dearth of epidemiological research on psychosis. Little is known about how psychosis rates vary within contrasting urban areas. Variation in rates would have implications for the aetiology of psychosis. The aim was to determine the variation in psychosis prevalence in different areas of a city. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective audit of the caseloads of t...

AIMS To investigate the effect of exposure to cannabis early in adolescence on subclinical positive and negative symptoms of psychosis. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey in the context of an ongoing cohort study. SETTING Government-supported general population cohort study. PARTICIPANTS A total of 3500 representative 19-year olds in Greece. MEASUREMENTS Subjects filled in the 40-item Commun...

BACKGROUND A key component of cognitive therapy for psychosis is the development of a meaningful and shared formulation of the onset of the psychosis. Therapists bring an understanding of the development of psychotic symptoms based on theoretical models and try to marry these with the person's own experience and explanations. However, an important question is whether this understanding is compa...

A clear, practical and client-centred framework is provided for clinicians, which includes: * the use of Mindfulness for people with psychosis * ‘two chair methods’, developed by the author for working with psychosis * a detailed look at the ABC model applied to psychosis * guidelines for working with symptomatic beliefs * a new perspective on the therapeutic relationship and collaboration * a ...

We present a patient with topiramate-induced psychosis who developed alternative psychosis following temporal lobectomy. The number of surgical candidates for temporal lobectomy is increasing as is the frequency of psychiatric co-morbidities. Preoperative planning should take account of these psychiatric co-morbidities. In particular, precautions should be taken when antiepileptic drug-induced ...

A clear, practical and client-centred framework is provided for clinicians, which includes: * the use of Mindfulness for people with psychosis * ‘two chair methods’, developed by the author for working with psychosis * a detailed look at the ABC model applied to psychosis * guidelines for working with symptomatic beliefs * a new perspective on the therapeutic relationship and collaboration * a ...

A clear, practical and client-centred framework is provided for clinicians, which includes: * the use of Mindfulness for people with psychosis * ‘two chair methods’, developed by the author for working with psychosis * a detailed look at the ABC model applied to psychosis * guidelines for working with symptomatic beliefs * a new perspective on the therapeutic relationship and collaboration * a ...

The symptoms and the individual experience of psychosis vary from patient to patient. Treatment, medication and cognitive psychotherapy are targeted mostly on positive and lately also on negative symptoms of psychosis. Deficits in metacognition found in patients with psychosis have a profound impact on the recovery process, their quality of life and experience of mental pain. Long term group ps...