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: A Symptom-based Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Hagen, Douglas Turkington, Torkil Berge, Rolf W. Gråwe
November 22, 2010
This book offers a new approach to understanding and treating psychotic symptoms using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). CBT for Psychosis shows how this approach clears the way for a shift away from a biological understanding and towards a psychological understanding of psychosis. Stressing ...
Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses: Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Yrjö O. Alanen, Manuel González de Chávez, Ann-Louise S. Silver, Brian V. Martindale
June 26, 2009
Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2010 BMA Medical Book Awards! Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses brings together professionals from around the world to provide an extensive overview of the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis. Divided into three parts – ...
Making Sense of Madness: Contesting the Meaning of Schizophrenia
1st Edition
By Jim Geekie, John Read
June 19, 2009
The experience of madness – which might also be referred to more formally as ‘schizophrenia’ or ‘psychosis’ – consists of a complex, confusing and often distressing collection of experiences, such as hearing voices or developing unusual, seemingly unfounded beliefs. Madness, in its various forms ...
Beyond Medication: Therapeutic Engagement and the Recovery from Psychosis
1st Edition
Edited
By David Garfield, Daniel Mackler
November 24, 2008
Beyond Medication focuses on the creation and evolution of the therapeutic relationship as the agent of change in the recovery from psychosis. Organized from the clinician’s point of view, this practical guidebook moves directly into the heart of the therapeutic process with a sequence of chapters ...
Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis: Philosophy, History and Clinical Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By John Gale, Alba Realpe, Enrico Pedriali
July 01, 2008
Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis offers a uniquely global insight into the renewed interest in the use of therapeutic communities for the treatment of psychosis, as complementary to pharmacological treatment. Within this edited volume contributors from around the world look at the range of ...
Psychotherapies for the Psychoses: Theoretical, Cultural and Clinical Integration
1st Edition
Edited
By John F. M. Gleeson, Eóin Killackey, Helen Krstev
March 27, 2008
Can biological and psychological interventions be integrated in the treatment of psychosis? Throughout the world, access to psychotherapeutic and psychosocial treatments for the psychoses varies significantly, with many people diagnosed with psychotic disorders receiving only medication as ...
Experiences of Mental Health In-patient Care: Narratives From Service Users, Carers and Professionals
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Hardcastle, David Kennard, Sheila Grandison, Leonard Fagin
May 10, 2007
Commended in the Mental Health category of the 2008 BMA Medical Book Competition. This book offers an insight into the experience of psychiatric in-patient care, from both a professional and a user perspective. The editors highlight the problems in creating therapeutic environments within ...
Family and Multi-Family Work with Psychosis: A Guide for Professionals
1st Edition
By Gerd-Ragna Bloch Thorsen, Trond Gronnestad, Anne Lise Oxnevad
October 30, 2006
Family and Multi-Family Work with Psychosis provides a practical step-by-step guide for professionals treating psychosis using family work. The authors draw on over ten years of experience working with family and multi-family groups where there are members with a psychotic disturbance. They ...
Evolving Psychosis: Different Stages, Different Treatments
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Olav Johannessen, Brian V. Martindale, Johan Cullberg
April 12, 2006
Can early, need-adapted treatment prevent the long-terms effects of psychosis? How important is phase-specific treatment? Evolving Psychosis explores the success of psycho-social treatments for psychosis in helping patients recover more quickly and stay well longer. Mental health professionals ...
Psychoses: An Integrative Perspective
1st Edition
By Johan Cullberg
February 15, 2006
Psychoses provides a unique perspective on the challenges associated with understanding and treating psychoses, bringing together insights and developments from medicine and psychology to give a full and balanced overview of the subject. Johan Cullberg draws on his extensive experience working ...