Self and narrative in schizophrenia: time to author a new story
David Roe,Larry Davidson +1 more
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Drawing on empirical research in the growing area of recovery, it is suggested that the disruptions and discontinuities introduced by the illness and its social and personal consequences, but also the person’s efforts to overcome these are integral components of the recovery process itself.Abstract:
The prevailing, clinical view of schizophrenia, as reflected in the psychiatric literature, suggests both that people with schizophrenia have lost their sense of self and that they have a diminished capacity to create coherent narratives about their own lives. Drawing on our empirical research in the growing area of recovery, we describe not only the disruptions and discontinuities introduced by the illness and its social and personal consequences, but also the person’s efforts to overcome these, to reconstruct a sense of self, to regain agency and to create a coherent life narrative. We suggest in closing that, rather than simply being a byproduct of recovery, these processes of re-authoring one’s life story are actually integral components of the recovery process itself.read more
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Toward Understanding the Insight Paradox: Internalized Stigma Moderates the Association Between Insight and Social Functioning, Hope, and Self-esteem Among People with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
TL;DR: A cluster analysis of 75 persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders based on single measures of insight using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, internalized stigma using the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale, and compared groups on concurrent assessments of hope and self-esteem revealed that the high insight/moderate stigma group had significantly the lowest levels of hope on the Beck Hopelessness Scale andSelf-esteem using the Multidimensional Self-esteem Inventory.
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Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy
TL;DR: There is real value in psychotherapy, which "relies primarily on the healer's ability to mobilize healing forces in the sufferer by psychological means," but the principal value lies in factors that are common to all the various forms of therapy.
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Recovery from versus recovery in serious mental illness: One strategy for lessening confusion plaguing recovery
Larry Davidson,David Roe +1 more
TL;DR: Two potentially complementary meanings of recovery were identified and the first meaning of recovery in derives from the Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Movement and refers instead to a person's rights to self-determination and inclusion in community life despite continuing to suffer from mental illness.
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Supporting Patient Autonomy: The Importance of Clinician-patient Relationships
TL;DR: It is suggested that a strong focus on decision situations is problematic, especially when combined with a tendency to stress the importance of patients’ independence in choosing, and that Relational understandings of autonomy support recognition of the value of good patient-professional relationships and can enrich the specification of the principle of respect for autonomy.
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A scientific agenda for the concept of recovery as it applies to schizophrenia.
TL;DR: It is argued that a scientific basis is necessary for the concept of recovery to have a significant long-term impact on the way that schizophrenia is understood and treated and to improve the impact of recovery-based initiatives.
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd ed
Arnold M. Cooper,Robert Michels +1 more
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A modified labeling theory approach to mental disorders : an empirical assessment
TL;DR: In this paper, a modified labeling perspective is proposed, which claims that even if labeling does not directly produce mental disorder, it can lead to negative outcomes, such as negative consequences for social support networks, jobs, and self-esteem.
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Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy
TL;DR: This popular study of "psychological healing"treats topics ranging from religious revivalism and magical healing to contemporary psychotherapies, from the role of the shaman in nonindustrialized societies to the traditional mental hospital.