Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis: Philosophy, History and Clinical Practice

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ISBN: 9780415440547 | 0415440548
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Copyright: 7/1/2008

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Offers a global insight into renewed interest in the use of therapeutic communities for treatment of psychosis. Includes treatment settings and alternative therapies. For psychotherapists. Softcover, hardcover available. DNLM: Psychotic Disorders--therapy.

Editors' biographies	p. x
Editors and contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xxii
Historical background and philosophical context	p. 1
A view of the evolution of therapeutic communities for people suffering from psychosis	p. 3
The American contribution to therapeutic community for people with psychosis and a reflection on current milieu treatment in the United States	p. 16
The decline and rediscovery of the therapeutic community	p. 28
Exegesis, truth and tradition: a hermeneutic approach to psychosis	p. 38
Applying Bion's concept of psychotic personality to staff and patients	p. 52
When philosophy meets practice: setting up a Philadelphia Association community household	p. 63
Psychosis and the community of the question: training therapists in therapeutic community	p. 73
Treatment settings and clinical models	p. 91
The therapeutic community approach in forensic settings	p. 93
The treatment of substance use and mental health problems in Bulgaria	p. 100
Medication as a tool in therapeutic and rehabilitative programmes in communities for people suffering from schizophrenic disorders	p. 114
Consent, accountability and the future of therapeutic communities in the light of accompanied self-rehabilitation: the chemical asylum and the right to be socially sanctioned	p. 126
An exploration of the term autonomy: attitudes and philosophy for a modern concept in mental health	p. 135
Holding structures in a crisis centre: an applied psychoanalytical model	p. 140
Psychological care in therapeutic communities	p. 153
Madness, persecution and transference	p. 162
A community treatment programme for people in Krakow suffering from schizophrenia	p. 171
Alternative therapies and extended applications	p. 185
Surrealism, psychosis and the therapeutic community: a window onto the mental landscape	p. 187
The multifamily structured therapeutic community: reflections on the experience of the therapeutic community Tarsia, Italy	p. 201
The Farm House, Farooqabad, Sheikhupura, Pakistan	p. 210
Drama therapy in a community treatment programme	p. 224
Psychodrama and the psychotic member	p. 230
New visions in the long-term outpatient therapy of psychosis: the therapeutic community within the community	p. 241
Evidence for the effectiveness of therapeutic community treatment of the psychoses	p. 255
Index	p. 266
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