Understanding Psychosis - Issues, Treatments, and Challenges for Sufferers and Their Families

Offers a definition of psychotic illness, discusses how it was treated in the past, traces the challenges faced by caregivers and families, and describes the symptoms, treatments, and realities of recovery.

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Epidemic of Mental Illness
2. The Failure of Deinstitutionalization
3. The Effects of Mental Illness on Family Members
4. The Prevention of Mental Illness
5. John Nash: Acute Identity Confusion
6. John Nash: The Goal of Mental Equilibrium
Epilogue

About the author

Donald Capps, professor of pastoral psychology at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1981 to 2009, teaches courses on mental illness, developmental theory, and older adults. He has served as editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. His books include Men, Religion, and Melancholia, Social Phobia: Alleviating Anxiety in an Age of Self-promotion, Fragile Connections: Memoirs of Mental Illness for Pastoral Care Professionals, A Time to Laugh: The Religion of Humor, Young Clergy: a Biographical-Developmental Study, Jesus the Village Psychiatrist, and The Decades of Life: A Guide to Human Development.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Capps, Donald Eric Capps, Capps Donald
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9781442205932
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0593-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Coping with illness & specific conditions, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General