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Articles and interviews on psychosis

The road to recovery 
Iain Caldwell describes how the human givens approach to helping people in distress has had a huge impact on mental health services in Hartlepool.
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Bringing the help to home  
Most severe, even psychotic, mental illness can be helped more effectively at home than in hospital. Professor Marcellino Smyth illustrates how home treatment services work.
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A new look at psychosis  
Ivan Tyrrell and Richard Bentall discuss patient-centred new approaches
to the understanding and treatment of psychotic illness. >> Read

Working with psychosis — once a week  
Emily Lindsey Clark describes how, as a therapist in private practice, she helped a client overcome the psychotic delusions that were keeping her trapped. >> Read

From self-harm to self-belief  
Emily Lindsey Clark describes how the human givens approach has provided a practical focus for working with women struggling to cope with everyday life. >> Read

Imagination and Madness 
Ivan Tyrrell talks with Daniel Nettle about the far closer than expected connection between psychosis and creative thinking.  >> Read

“This trembling web”: The brain and beyond  
Joe Griffin talks with Professor Ian Robertson about the role of experience in the sculpting of our brains, and why certain types of counselling may do harm. >> Read

Dreaming to forget: the real reason why   
Joe Griffin explains why dreaming, and forgetting our dreams, fulfils a vital human need. >> Read

Why psychiatrists should be more like plumbers  
Dr Farouk Okhai opens his casebook to show how the human givens    approach can best help severely distressed people. >> Read
including: The power of deep relaxation and guided imagery

Find out more about psychosis >> Read

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> MindFields College runs the following events, which offer a wealth of information about psychosis as well as practical ways to help manage it:

From stress to   psychosis: how to
  prevent people having   breakdowns

Understanding and   treating psychotic   disorders

 

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