Subject Area: Psychosis

Treating schizophrenia without drugs

Treatmenta for schizophrenia that involve no drugs, or only low doses of them, urgently need investigation, suggests Dr Tim Calton, lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Nottingham, and colleagues.

Madness, creativity and human nature

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

The road to recovery

Ian Caldwell describes how the human givens approach to helping people in distress has had a huge impact on mental health services in Hartlepool.

Why psychiatrists should be more like plumbers

Dr Farouk Okhai opens his casebook to show how using a variety of techniques, as in the human givens approach, can best help severely distressed people.