Vikram Patel

The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics.

World Psychiatry June 1, 2022 Paolo Fusar‐poli, Andrés Estradé, Giovanni Stanghellini et al. 225 citations

Psychosis is the most ineffable experience of mental disorder. We provide here the first co-written bottom-up review of the lived experience of psychosis, whereby experts by experience primarily selected the subjective themes, that were subsequently enriched by phenomenologically-informed perspectives. First-person accounts within and outside the medical field were screened and discussed in...