Psychosis
January 30, 2025
Keith Gaynor, C. Foy, K. Reddy et al.
ABSTRACT Background Trauma and other adverse social experiences have been hypothesised to lead to psychotic-like experiences through disrupted attachment and dissociation. Although well grounded in the literature, the model is still to be fully validated. Methods This study tested the predictive validity of the Trauma and Social Pathways model of Psychosis, using a cross-sectional, quantitative...
Psychosis
September 25, 2024
"Distress is probably the wrong word": exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum.
Psychosis
January 6, 2022
Julia G. Lebovitz, Chris Ahnallen, Tanya M Luhrmann
1 citation
Background The content of auditory hallucinations (AHs) and delusions is malleable and reflects the social environment and the local culture. COVID-19 is a significant new feature of the social environment, yet research has not yet determined how the phenomenology of psychosis has changed since the COVID-19 outbreak.Methods Adult patients (N = 17) receiving care within an acute inpatient...
Psychosis
May 13, 2020
Katherine Newman‐Taylor, Thomas Richardson, Monica Sood et al.
18 citations
Cannabis use can increase severity of symptoms and risk of relapse for people with psychosis. Childhood sexual abuse and high schizotypy increase the risk further. The mechanisms involved remain unclear, and this limits psychological therapies. In three linked studies, we examined the role of two candidate mechanisms – external attribution and cognitive fusion. Study 1 examined these processes...
Psychosis
October 2, 2018
J. Hamm, Bethany L. Leonhardt, Jeremy M. Ridenour et al.
24 citations
ABSTRACT Reductionist models of schizophrenia and psychosis have been criticized for neglecting first person experiences of these conditions. In response, at least two distinct bodies of research have emerged which study first person experience: philosophical phenomenology and approaches linked with the recovery movement. Phenomenological writings have produced a conceptual model of...