American Journal of Psychotherapy

Publication date: 01 January 2016

Beginning with Paul Federn—a contemporary of Sigmund Freud—every generation of psychotherapists for the past hundred years has included a small number of determined clinicians who have worked psychotherapeutically with psychotic patients, and written ...

Publication date: 01 January 2016

Despite increasing evidence for the role of psychosocial factors in the onset and continuance of psychosis, the experiences involved are still largely considered the result of a biogenetic anomaly for which medication is the first-line treatment response. ...

Publication date: 01 January 2016

Psychotherapy has gained wide acceptance as a primary treatment for non-psychotic psychological disorders but has yet to find the same acceptance in the treatment of psychosis. One reason for this is the idea that schizophrenia is a genetically determined ...

Publication date: 01 January 2016

The paper describes how standard psychotherapy techniques need to be modified to suit the specialized needs of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. Patients with psychosis often have lost their ability to use words to describe their inner states. As a ...

Publication date: 01 January 2016

I describe the analytic treatment of Mr. C, a highly intelligent man who began therapy claiming to have schizophrenia. He entered treatment on the verge of suicide, convinced of his utter isolation, and gradually, he confronted his lifelong paranoia, and ...

Publication date: 01 January 2016

Lost and falling, the feeling that life is disorienting: none of us escapes the experience. For those clinicians who venture on to inpatient wards, lost-ness takes on a special urgency. But what does it mean to “find” another? Surely feeling lost is at ...

Publication date: 01 January 2016

Olfactory hallucinations (OH) are experienced by a substantial minority of people with schizophrenia, often leading to social anxiety, depression and suffering. Yet, despite their prevalence and clinical significance, OH in schizophrenia are under-...

Publication date: 01 January 2016

This paper provides a basic introduction to using method of levels (MOL) therapy with people experiencing psychosis. As MOL is a direct application of perceptual control theory (PCT), a brief overview of the three main theoretical principles of this ...