The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series
About the Book Series
The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) comprises a diverse range of individuals, networks and institutional members across more than twenty countries. Central to its ethos is that the perspectives of individuals with lived experience of psychosis, and their families and friends, are key to forging more inclusive understandings of, and collaborative therapeutic approaches to, psychosis.
With a core aim of promoting psychological and social approaches to psychosis, ISPS has a history stretching back more than five decades. During this time it has witnessed the relentless pursuit of primarily biological explanations for psychosis. This tide has been turning in recent years, with growing international recognition of a range of psychological, social, and cultural factors that have considerable explanatory traction and distinct therapeutic possibilities. Policymakers, treatment professionals, people with lived experience of psychosis, and family members are increasingly exploring interventions in which talking and listening are key ingredients. Psychosocially informed understandings and support frameworks are helpful for fostering and promoting personal recovery in the face of adverse psychotic experience. Recognising the humanitarian and therapeutic potential of these perspectives, ISPS embraces a wide spectrum of approaches from psychodynamic, systemic, cognitive, and arts therapies, to need-adapted and dialogical approaches, family and group therapies and residential therapeutic communities.
A further ambition of ISPS is to draw together diverse viewpoints on psychosis and to foster discussion and debate across the biomedical and social sciences, including establishing meaningful dialogue with practitioners and researchers who are more familiar with biological-based approaches. Such discussions are supported by growing evidence of the entanglement of genes and physiology with socio-cultural, environmental, and emotional contexts. This allows a consideration of mental distress as an embodied psycho-social experience that must be understood in relation to a person’s life history and circumstances.
The ISPS book series seeks to capture these developments in the field by providing a forum in which authors with a variety of lived and professional experiences can share the significant value of their work. Complemented by international and national conferences and publication of the journal Psychosis, this series is central to the activities of ISPS and their global reach. It comprises books with a variety of empirical focuses and with differing experiential and disciplinary perspectives. Although diverse, the range of books combines intellectual rigour with accessibility to readers across the ISPS community. We aim for the series to be a resource for mental health professionals, for those developing and implementing policy, for academics in the social and clinical sciences, and for people whose interest in psychosis stems from personal or family experience.
To support its aim of advancing scholarship in an inclusive and interdisciplinary way, the series benefits from the advice of an editorial board whose members are drawn from across the ISPS community:
Katherine Berry; Sandra Bucci; Marc Calmeyn; Caroline Cupitt; Stephanie Ewart; Pamela Fuller; Jim Geekie; Olympia Gianfrancesco; Lee Gunn; Kelley Irmen; Sumeet Jain; Nev Jones; David Kennard; Eleanor Longden; Tanya Luhrmann; Brian Martindale; Andrew Moskowitz; Michael O’Loughlin; Jim van Os; David Shiers.
For more information about ISPS, email [email protected] or visit our website, www.isps.org.
For more information about the journal Psychosis visit www.isps.org/index.php/publications/journal
CBT for Psychosis: Process-orientated Therapies and the Third Wave
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Cupitt
June 26, 2018
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for psychosis is constantly changing and evolving. Recently, in what is sometimes called the ‘third wave’, therapy has become more concerned with the individual’s relationship to their experience, rather than with the content of it. This more process–orientated ...
Psychosis, Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in Postwar USA: On the borderland of madness
1st Edition
By Orna Ophir
December 21, 2017
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. Analyzing and ...
Art Therapy for Psychosis: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine Killick
March 03, 2017
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...
Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A study of schizophrenia and culture in Turkey
1st Edition
By Sadeq Rahimi
November 10, 2016
This book explores the relationship between subjective experience and the cultural, political and historical paradigms in which the individual is embedded. Providing a deep analysis of three compelling case studies of schizophrenia in Turkey, the book considers the ways in which private experience ...
Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People: The work of Murray Jackson
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeanne Magagna, Murray Jackson
February 04, 2015
Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals: Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, José Saramago and John Nash. Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a contextual framework by Jeanne Magagna, ...
Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: Specific techniques
1st Edition
By Andrew Lotterman
January 23, 2015
In this unique book, Andrew Lotterman describes a creative approach to the psychotherapy of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Lotterman focuses on specific techniques that can be used in psychological therapy with people who have symptoms such as hallucinations, ...
Psychosis and Emotion: The role of emotions in understanding psychosis, therapy and recovery
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew I. Gumley, Alf Gillham, Kathy Taylor, Matthias Schwannauer
September 19, 2013
There is increasing recognition that emotional distress plays a significant part in the onset of psychosis, the experience of psychosis itself and in the unfolding of recovery that follows. This book brings together leading international experts to explore the role of emotion and emotion regulation...
Insanity and Divinity: Studies in Psychosis and Spirituality
1st Edition
Edited
By John Gale, Michael Robson, Georgia Rapsomatioti
August 29, 2013
How close is spirituality to psychosis? Covering the interrelation of psychosis and spirituality from a number of angles, Insanity and Divinity will generate dialogue and discussion, aid critical reflection and stimulate creative approaches to clinical work for those interested in the connections ...
Surviving, Existing, or Living: Phase-specific therapy for severe psychosis
1st Edition
By Pamela R. Fuller
July 25, 2013
For professionals working with people who experience severe psychosis, increasing empirical evidence for the benefits of psychotherapy for psychosis has been especially welcome. Given the limitations of medication-only approaches and the need for an expanded perspective, including for those ...
Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Psychosis
2nd Edition
Edited
By Dr John Read, Professor Richard Bentall, Loren Mosher, John Read, Jacqui Dillon
July 15, 2013
Are hallucinations and delusions really symptoms of an illness called ‘schizophrenia’? Are mental health problems really caused by chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions? Are psychiatric drugs as effective and safe as the drug companies claim? Is madness preventable? This second edition of...
Psychosis as a Personal Crisis: An Experience-Based Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Marius Romme, Sandra Escher
November 10, 2011
Psychosis as a Personal Crisis seeks to challenge the way people who hear voices are both viewed and treated. This book emphasises the individual variation between people who suffer from psychosis and puts forward the idea that hearing voices is not in itself a sign of mental illness. In this book ...
Experiencing Psychosis: Personal and Professional Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jim Geekie, Patte Randal, Debra Lampshire, John Read
September 21, 2011
Extensive scientific research has been conducted into understanding and learning more about psychotic experiences. However, in existing research the voice of subjective experience is rarely taken into consideration. In this book, first-person accounts are brought centre-stage and examined alongside...