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New book in celebration of the Centre's |
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25th Anniversary |
| Berke, J. H., Fagan, M., Pearce, G. and Pierides, S. (eds.) |
| The PsychoSocial Treatment of Psychosis (in preparation) |
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The editors and authors of this book have all worked at the Arbours Crisis Centre and have been actively involved in the psychological and social care of people with severe mental, emotional and social disorders. The Centre is a unique facility established in 1973 where therapists and patients (called 'guests') live together in order to establish a space where extremes of distress can be tolerated, understood and ameliorated. It is the only facility of its kind in Britain and, sadly, the only facility in Britain where psychotic individuals can receive a predominantly psychological (as opposed to physical) treatment intervention. In this book, the contributors demonstrate that PsychoSocial interventions with individuals with acute or long-standing psychoses are an effective treatment modality, and an important alternative to traditional, physical psychiatric interventions. |
| Contributors and Chapters: Joseph H. Berke: The Structure of an Intervention, and Psychotic Interventions; Edith David: Best Value Residential Psychotherapy; Lois Elliott: A Fine Balance: Between Hope and Despair; Margaret Fagan: Working with People who Self-Harm; Laura Forti: The Arbours Crisis Centre: 1975 - 1998; Kate Hardwicke: Inside Outside; Robert Hinshelwood: Forward; Martin Jenkins: Survival or Revival; Richard Lucas: Beyond Medication; Mats Mogren: Continuities; Lizzi Payne: Stepping on the Cracks; George Pearce: A Psychotic Sense of the Future; Stella Pierides: The Power of the Play; Julia Saltiel with Lois Elliott: The State of the Art; Stanley Schneider: The Collapsing of the Pyramid; Tamar Schoenfield: Individual Psychotherapy in a Team. |
