Psychosis and The Traumatised Self: Understanding and Change

by John Rhodes

Book Overview

Psychosis and the Traumatised Self explores what it is like to experience psychosis for individuals with histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse.

The book additionally explores how meaning expressed in psychosis might originate from the effects of abuse, but also long-term life difficulties, motivations, memories, social history, and struggles to narrate and understand. One chapter focuses on refugees who suffered trauma as adults...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367491796
• ISBN13: 9780367491796
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"