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Understanding psychosis : issues and challenges for sufferers, families, and friends / Donald Capps.
- Title
- Understanding psychosis : issues and challenges for sufferers, families, and friends / Donald Capps.
- Author
- Capps, Donald.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2010.
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- Description
- viii, 273 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Takes a look at psychosis, and contends that although the delusions and hallucinations of the psychotic person are misguided and confused, they are understandable when viewed in the context of a person's life.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Popular Work
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-265), mental health resources, and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The epidemic of psychotic illness -- The deinstitutionalization era : its personal and social impact -- How family members cope with serious mental illness -- Rehabilitation strategies for the seriously mentally ill -- Prevention strategies for persons at-risk -- The emergence of psychotic illness : the role of acute identity confusion -- The symptoms of psychotic illness : delusions and hallucinations -- The symptoms of psychotic illness: the assumed identity -- Achieving equilibrium : personal strengths and social supports.
- ISBN
- 9781442205925 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 144220592X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781442205949 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- 1442205946 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2010018471
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library