Trauma and Psychosis: New Directions for Theory and Therapy

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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and tables; Foreword; Acknowledgement; Introduction; Part I. Research and theoretical perspectives; Chapter 1 The environment and psychosis: Rethinking the evidence; Chapter 2 The relationship between child abuse and psychosis: Public opinion, evidence, pathways and implications; Chapter 3 The trauma of being psychotic: An analysis of posttraumatic stress disorder in response to acute psychosis; Chapter 4 Psychosis with comorbid PTSD.;Trauma and Psychosis provides a valuable contribution to understanding of the possible relationship between the experience of trauma and the range of phenomena currently referred to as psychosis. Book Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Figures and tables Foreword Acknowledgement Introduction Part I. Research and theoretical perspectives Chapter 1 The environment and psychosis: Rethinking the evidence Chapter 2 The relationship between child abuse and psychosis: Public opinion, evidence, pathways and implications Chapter 3 The trauma of being psychotic: An analysis of posttraumatic stress disorder in response to acute psychosis Chapter 4 Psychosis with comorbid PTSD. Chapter 5 The catastrophic interaction hypothesis: How do stress, trauma, emotion and information processing abnormalities lead to psychosis?Part II. Specific populations Chapter 6 Trauma and first episode psychosis Chapter 7 Childhood trauma and psychosis in the major depressive disorders Chapter 8 Trauma and hearing voices Part III. From theory to therapy Chapter 9 Breaking the silence: Learning why, when and how to ask about trauma, and how to respond to disclosures Chapter 10 CBT for traumatic psychosis Cha.