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The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series


About the Series

The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) comprises a diverse range of individuals, networks and institutional members across more than twenty countries. Central to its ethos is that the perspectives of individuals with lived experience of psychosis, and their families and friends, are key to forging more inclusive understandings of, and collaborative therapeutic approaches to, psychosis.

With a core aim of promoting psychological and social approaches to psychosis, ISPS has a history stretching back more than five decades. During this time it has witnessed the relentless pursuit of primarily biological explanations for psychosis. This tide has been turning in recent years, with growing international recognition of a range of psychological, social, and cultural factors that have considerable explanatory traction and distinct therapeutic possibilities. Policymakers, treatment professionals, people with lived experience of psychosis, and family members are increasingly exploring interventions in which talking and listening are key ingredients. Psychosocially informed understandings and support frameworks are helpful for fostering and promoting personal recovery in the face of adverse psychotic experience. Recognising the humanitarian and therapeutic potential of these perspectives, ISPS embraces a wide spectrum of approaches from psychodynamic, systemic, cognitive, and arts therapies, to need-adapted and dialogical approaches, family and group therapies and residential therapeutic communities.

A further ambition of ISPS is to draw together diverse viewpoints on psychosis and to foster discussion and debate across the biomedical and social sciences, including establishing meaningful dialogue with practitioners and researchers who are more familiar with biological-based approaches. Such discussions are supported by growing evidence of the entanglement of genes and physiology with socio-cultural, environmental, and emotional contexts. This allows a consideration of mental distress as an embodied psycho-social experience that must be understood in relation to a person’s life history and circumstances.

The ISPS book series seeks to capture these developments in the field by providing a forum in which authors with a variety of lived and professional experiences can share the significant value of their work. Complemented by international and national conferences and publication of the journal Psychosis, this series is central to the activities of ISPS and their global reach. It comprises books with a variety of empirical focuses and with differing experiential and disciplinary perspectives. Although diverse, the range of books combines intellectual rigour with accessibility to readers across the ISPS community. We aim for the series to be a resource for mental health professionals, for those developing and implementing policy, for academics in the social and clinical sciences, and for people whose interest in psychosis stems from personal or family experience.

To support its aim of advancing scholarship in an inclusive and interdisciplinary way, the series benefits from the advice of an editorial board whose members are drawn from across the ISPS community:

Katherine Berry; Sandra Bucci; Marc Calmeyn; Caroline Cupitt; Stephanie Ewart; Pamela Fuller; Jim Geekie; Olympia Gianfrancesco; Lee Gunn; Kelley Irmen; Sumeet Jain; Nev Jones; David Kennard; Eleanor Longden; Tanya Luhrmann; Brian Martindale; Andrew Moskowitz; Michael O’Loughlin; Jim van Os; David Shiers.

For more information about ISPS, email [email protected] or visit our website, www.isps.org.

For more information about the journal Psychosis visit www.isps.org/index.php/publications/journal

 

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Toxic Interactions and the Social Geography of Psychosis Reflections on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorder

Toxic Interactions and the Social Geography of Psychosis: Reflections on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorder

1st Edition

By Hugh Middleton
October 10, 2023

Toxic Interactions is a review of quantitative research revealing how urban living, trauma, ethnicity, stress and familial influence the risk of troubling psychotic experiences. Each of these is reviewed in search of their social implications, and a constructivist approach identifies their common ...

Developing Trauma Informed Services for Psychosis A Multidisciplinary Journey Towards Healing

Developing Trauma Informed Services for Psychosis: A Multidisciplinary Journey Towards Healing

1st Edition

Edited By Kristina Muenzenmaier, Mara Conan, Gillian Stephens Langdon, Toshiko Kobayashi, Andres Ricardo Schneeberger
May 23, 2023

A multidisciplinary group of clinicians explore the connections between traumatic experiences and psychosis, charting the development of a series of interventions designed for both inpatients and outpatients over the course of two decades. Developing Trauma Informed Services for Psychosis details ...

Community-Based Mental Healthcare for Psychosis From Homelessness to Recovery and Continued In-home Support

Community-Based Mental Healthcare for Psychosis: From Homelessness to Recovery and Continued In-home Support

1st Edition

By Peter Dierinck
April 25, 2023

This eye-opening book explores the need for, and how to successfully organize, community mental health teams that provide in-home care and treatment for people experiencing mental health difficulties, particularly those suffering with psychosis. With an emphasis on community-based care and ...

Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia The Phenomenology of Urhomelessness

Reconceptualizing Schizophrenia: The Phenomenology of Urhomelessness

1st Edition

Edited By Sarah Kamens
April 14, 2023

This volume presents a novel, international research study that reconceptualizes schizophrenia through an investigation of ways in which the first-hand experiences of those with a diagnosis differ from conventional diagnostic definitions. Offering insight into the history of psychiatric taxonomies ...

Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self Understanding the Individual Development of Psychosis as a Basic Self-disturbance

Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self: Understanding the Individual Development of Psychosis as a Basic Self-disturbance

1st Edition

By Paul Møller
April 12, 2023

Møller sheds light on the inner aspects of psychosis and psychosis risk, and its core experiential phenomena as a method of understanding the individual early psychosis development.The book details how such experiences might take shape in the human mind and how a better understanding achieved ...

Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis Reflections on Trauma, Use of Power and Re-visioning Psychiatry

Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis: Reflections on Trauma, Use of Power and Re-visioning Psychiatry

1st Edition

By Patte Randal, Josephine Stanton
June 30, 2022

This book offers first-person accounts of the experience of psychosis from the inside and the outside, through the eyes of two doctors, one of whom has experienced psychosis and both of whom have worked for decades in the field of psychiatry. Underpinned by rigorous academic analysis using an ...

The Clozapine Clinic Health Agency in High-Risk Conditions

The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-Risk Conditions

1st Edition

By Julia Brown
April 26, 2022

This book is the first ethnography of the little-known world of clozapine clinics in Australia and the United Kingdom. Anthropologist Julia Brown engages with the narratives of people living in extreme health circumstances to challenge some of the assumptions made about clozapine treatment and ...

Open Dialogue for Psychosis Organising Mental Health Services to Prioritise Dialogue, Relationship and Meaning

Open Dialogue for Psychosis: Organising Mental Health Services to Prioritise Dialogue, Relationship and Meaning

1st Edition

Edited By Nick Putman, Brian Martindale
July 30, 2021

This highly readable book provides a comprehensive examination of the use of Open Dialogue as a treatment for psychosis. It presents the basic principles and practice of Open Dialogue, explains the training needed to practice and explores how it is being developed internationally. Open ...

The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis Contributions from Metacognitive and Mentalization Based Oriented Psychotherapy

The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis: Contributions from Metacognitive and Mentalization Based Oriented Psychotherapy

1st Edition

Edited By Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon, Paul H. Lysaker
June 18, 2021

The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis details specific therapeutic approaches as well as considers how treatments can be individually tailored and adapted to help persons whose mental health challenges may be either mild or more severe. By focusing on basic elements of the experiences of persons ...

Attachment Theory and Psychosis Current Perspectives and Future Directions

Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions

1st Edition

Edited By Katherine Berry, Sandra Bucci, Adam N. Danquah
November 14, 2019

Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions is the first book to provide a practical guide to using attachment theory in the assessment, formulation and treatment of a range of psychological problems that can arise as a result of experiencing psychosis. Katherine ...

Personal Experiences of Psychological Therapy for Psychosis and Related Experiences

Personal Experiences of Psychological Therapy for Psychosis and Related Experiences

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Taylor, Olympia Gianfrancesco, Naomi Fisher
January 28, 2019

For those struggling with experiences of psychosis, therapy can be beneficial and even life changing. However, there is no single type of therapy, and a great range and diversity of therapeutic approaches have been developed to help different individuals’ needs, which makes deciding which approach ...

CBT for Psychosis Process-orientated Therapies and the Third Wave

CBT for Psychosis: Process-orientated Therapies and the Third Wave

1st Edition

Edited By Caroline Cupitt
June 26, 2018

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for psychosis is constantly changing and evolving. Recently, in what is sometimes called the ‘third wave’, therapy has become more concerned with the individual’s relationship to their experience, rather than with the content of it. This more process–orientated ...

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