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Psychosis in the family : the journey of a psychotherapist and mother / Janet C. Love.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Love, Janet C.
- Series:
- UKCP
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love, Janet M--Family.
- Love, Janet M.
- Psychoses--Patients--Great Britain--Biography.
- Psychoses.
- Parents of mentally ill children--Great Britain--Biography.
- Parents of mentally ill children.
- Psychoses--Patients--Family relationships.
- Psychoses--Patients--Care--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Karnac, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in psychosis; psychosis which still remains the greatest taboo in society today, together with its implicit diagnosis of a lifelong sentence of medication and no cure. It is in the main a personal and moving narrative of a mother looking to help her son avoid such a lifelong sentence of medication whilst trying to research holistic resources and alternative approaches for treatment at the same time as negotiating the vagaries of the current mental health system. It is often a tale of despair and frustration, yet also gives a compassionate voice. Transpersonal and transgenerational psychotherapeutic insights back up the personal narrative. It includes an accessible inquiry into how unconscious forces influence our mind, our bodies and the entire family system. Its hypothesis is that if we cannot understand our own unconscious responses how can we understand those of our loved ones in psychotic episodes? This is a highly readable, provocative weave of story and theory, one of the great untold stories of our time."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; NOTE TO THE READER; CHAPTER ONE Drawing the line; CHAPTER TWO Living in the shadows; CHAPTER THREE Disorder, disorder; CHAPTER FOUR Finding kindred spirits; CHAPTER FIVE Surrendering; CHAPTER SIX The wounded storyteller; CHAPTER SEVEN The power of themulti-generational psyche; CHAPTER EIGHT War and peace; AFTERWORD; APPENDICES OF RESOURCES; APPENDIX A Orthomolecular and nutritionalapproaches to psychosis; APPENDIX B Psychotherapeutic approaches topsychosis; APPENDIX C Spiritual approaches; APPENDIX D General resources for families
- REFERENCESBIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-91820-8
- 0-429-90397-9
- 0-429-47920-4
- 1-282-77940-0
- 9786612779404
- 1-84940-855-6
- 9780429479205
- OCLC:
- 680628772
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