Hospitality is a key concept in contemporary continental philosophy that emphasizes the importance of welcoming the stranger. Despite its relevance to psychotherapy, little has been written about how it could be a framework for the psychotherapeutic encounter, especially for people experiencing psychosis. In the world of psychiatry, the person with psychosis is often viewed as “other,” a...
Many with psychosis experience substantial difficulties forming and maintaining social bonds leading to persistent social alienation and a lack of a sense of membership in a larger community. While it is clear that social impairments in psychosis cannot be fully explained by symptoms or other traditional features of psychosis, the antecedents of disturbances in social function remain poorly...
Research using the integrated model of metacognition has suggested that the construct of metacognition could quantify the spectrum of activities that, if impaired, might cause many of the subjective disturbances found in psychosis. Research on social cognition and mentalizing in psychosis, however, has also pointed to underlying deficits in how persons make sense of their experience of...