Inside Psychosis - A Clinical Therapeutic Exploration of Working on Male Female Acute

This book offers an introductory overview of treatment of psychosis in in-patient acute ward settings, looking at both male and female wards.

List of contents

1. Clinical approaches to therapy on acute psychiatric wards 2. Defining the psychoses and schizophrenias 3. Religious and spiritual considerations in relation to schizophrenia and psychosis 4. Organisational dynamics in acute male and female psychiatric wards 5. Case study 1 - 'MJ' - A further case of dissociation 6. Case study 2 - 'Jennie' 7. Assessment Case study 3 - 'Sandra' 8. Case study 4 - 'Carlos - Kaleidoscope' 9. Case study 5 'Luma' 10. Case study 6 'Melanie' 11. Case study 7 'Sam'

About the author

Helen L. Holmes is trained in counselling psychology, and is a forensic psychotherapist, family and couples practitioner, therapeutic counsellor, accredited Autism assessor, accredited mediator and clinical supervisor, working in a Chelsea clinic and private practice in London. Helen has written and taught psychology-related courses at LSE, and innovated a clinical project about adolescent self-harm cessation at IOPPN, Kings College London.

Product details

• Authors: Helen L Holmes, Helen (King''s College London L Holmes
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032832289
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3283228-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis