Psychosis is a clinical syndrome that can cause significant distress leading to hospitalisation/long term stays in psychiatric services. However, limited academic evidence available examining the lived experience of psychosis. Additionally, no looking combine both learned and experiential knowledge as it pertains As such this article was created subsets order provide more complete interpretatio...

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 ...

Objectives: Psychosocial intervention method is very important for clinical recovery and personal psychosis. Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) a trans-diagnostic approach that has been proven effective in the psychosis but there are few studies South Korea testing its effects. In this paper, structured protocol, ‘Group Psychosis Recovery (G-ACTp)’ was adopted systematized manual developed to ...

sheehan’s syndrome (ss) refers to the occurrence of varying degree of hypopituitarism after parturition (1). it is a rare cause of hypopituitarism in developed countries owing to advances in obstetric care and its frequency is decreasing worldwide. however, it is still frequent in underdeveloped and developing countries. sheehan’s syndrome is often diagnosed late as it evolves slowly (2,3). rep...

BACKGROUND The critical period hypothesis proposes that deterioration occurs aggressively during the early years of psychosis, with relative stability subsequently. Thus, interventions that shorten the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and arrest early deterioration may have long-term benefits. AIMS To test the critical period hypothesis by determining whether outcome in non-affective psy...

Sir, Inhalants are commonly abused drugs in adolescent population though often unrecognized. On long‐term use they can result in serious sequels like optic atrophy and psychosis, resembling schizophrenia, and thus need awareness among physicians and psychiatrists. While there have been case reports on inhalant abuse in India,[1] there has been no report describing psychosis following toluene us...

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 ...

Some 20 trials of cognitive - behavioural therapy (CBT) for psychosis have re-established psychotherapy as a credible treatment for psychosis. However, it is not without its detractors and problems, including uncertainty about the nature of its active ingredients. We believe that the way forward is to abandon the neuroleptic metaphor of CBT for psychosis and to develop targeted interventions th...

INTRODUCTION There are few reports on thyrotoxic psychosis caused by diseases other than Graves' disease or toxic nodular goiter. CASE PRESENTATION A 64-year-old Japanese woman was treated for anxiety disorder in our clinic for 10 years. She had five episodes of transient psychosis during the first five years. When she developed psychosis without neck pain 10 years after her first visit, a la...

OBJECTIVE To increase understanding of the internal processes of recovery in psychosis, with particular consideration given to self-compassion and self-criticism. METHOD Qualitative data were collected by semistructured interviews, from 10 participants with psychosis, and analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. RESULTS Five superordinate themes emerged: (a) "my mind can't t...