American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 71
- Number 4
- December 2018
Publisher’s Note
Introduction
Publication date: 10 October 2018
Pages122–127Recovery for many people with serious mental illness is more than symptom remission or attainment of certain concrete milestones. It can also involve recapturing a previously lost coherent and cohesive sense of self. The authors review several case ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20180033Articles
Publication date: 07 November 2018
Pages128–134Despite historically pessimistic views from both the professional community and lay public, research is emerging that recovery from psychosis is possible. Recovery has evolved to include not only a reduction in symptoms and return to functioning, but a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20180032Publication date: 07 November 2018
Pages135–144Individuals with schizophrenia possess enduring deficits that limit their capacity for interpersonal connection. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia provide additional barriers to interpersonal relatedness in that they include a range of deficits related ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20180036Publication date: 07 November 2018
Pages145–154Impairments in metacognitive capacity—or the processes that enable individuals to access, understand, and integrate their ideas about their own and others’ mental states—are a core barrier to recovery for many people with borderline personality disorder. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20180035Publication date: 07 November 2018
Pages155–163Decrements in metacognitive functioning, or the ability to form complex and integrated representations of oneself and others, have been identified as a core feature of schizophrenia. These deficits have been observed to be largely independent of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20180038Publication date: 21 November 2018
Pages164–174MIT aims at progressively fostering metacognition until patients are able to understand what kind of interpersonal events or ideas about self and interpersonal interactions trigger their persecutory delusions and to question the delusional meaning they ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20180039Publication date: 26 November 2018
Pages175–185People with schizophrenia spectrum disorder face a major challenge in the ability to reflect on their own and others’ mental activities and about specific psychological problems in their lives. These deficits are associated with increased symptoms and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20180037Publication date: 21 November 2018
Pages186–195Schizophrenia often involves a loss of metacognitive capacity, the ability to form complex and integrated representations of self and others. Independent of symptoms and neurocognition, deficits in synthetic metacognition are related to difficulties ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20180031Past Issues
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