There is increasing recognition that emotional distress plays a significant part in the onset of psychosis, the experience of psychosis itself and in the unfolding of recovery that follows. This book brings together leading international experts to explore the role of emotion and emotion regulation in the development and recovery from psychosis. Psychosis and Emotion offers extensive clinical material and cutting-edge research with a focus on: the diverse theoretical perspectives on the importance of emotion in psychosis the interpersonal, systemic and organisational context of recovery from psychosis and the implications for emotional distress the implications of specific perspectives for promoting recovery from psychosis With thorough coverage of contemporary thinking, including psychoanalytic, cognitive, developmental, evolutionary and neurobiological, this book will be a valuable resource to clinicians and psychological therapists working in the field.

There is increasing recognition that emotional distress plays a significant part in the onset of psychosis, the experience of psychosis itself and in the unfolding of recovery that follows. This book brings together leading international experts to explore the role of emotion and emotion regulation in the development and recovery from psychosis. Psychosis and Emotion offers extensive clinical material and cutting-edge research with a focus on: the diverse theoretical perspectives on the importance of emotion in psychosis the interpersonal, systemic and organisational context of recovery from psychosis and the implications for emotional distress the implications of specific perspectives for promoting recovery from psychosis With thorough coverage of contemporary thinking, including psychoanalytic, cognitive, developmental, evolutionary and neurobiological, this book will be a valuable resource to clinicians and psychological therapists working in the field.

The new edition of this popular handbook has been thoroughly updated to include the latest data concerning treatment of first-episode patients. Drawing from their experience, the authors discuss the presentation and assessment of the first psychotic episode and review the appropriate use of antipsychotic agents and psychosocial approaches in effective management.

Staying Well After Psychosis Staying Well After Psychosis is extremely readable, based on solid research evidence and packed full of clinical insights and strategies that will satisfy any clinician seeking innovative approaches to the promotion of recovery from psychosis. Anthony P. Morrison, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester, UK Over the past decade our understanding of the experience of psychosis has changed dramatically. As part of this change, a range of psychological models of psychosis and associated interventions have developed. Staying Well After Psychosis presents an individually based psychological intervention targeting emotional recovery and relapse prevention. This approach considers the cognitive, interpersonal and developmental aspects involved in recovery and vulnerability to the recurrence of psychosis. Andrew Gumley and Matthias Schwannauer provide a framework for recovery and staying well that focuses on emotional and interpersonal adaptation to psychosis. This practical manual covers, in detail, all aspects of the therapeutic process of Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy, including: Taking a developmental perspective on help seeking and affect regulation. Supporting self-reorganisation and adaptation after acute psychosis. Understanding and treating traumatic reactions to psychosis. Working with feelings of humiliation, entrapment, loss and fear of recurrence. Working with cognitive interpersonal schemata. Developing coping in an interpersonal context. Clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health professionals will find this innovative treatment manual to be a valuable resource in their work with adults and adolescents. This book will also be of interest to lecturers and students of clinical psychology and mental health.

In this cohesive, dramatic, and highly readable book, the author establishes a roadmap for the diagnosis and psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic disorders based on finding, understanding and reordering of unbearable affect. He provides concrete clinical advice, vivid examples, and crisp jargon-free descriptions of theoretical concepts and clinical techniques. Most of all, he demonstrates that it is possible for psychotic patients to take control of their conditions, rebuild family relationships, and establish themselves in the viable productive lives that they have long despaired of achieving.

This dissertation, "Emotion Regulation Patterns of Psychotic Patients and Their Affect" by Chi-hong, Yuen, 袁志康, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Background: In recent years, the study of emotion in psychosis has been neglected, and it would seem from the literature that emotion is not related to the formation or prediction of psychosis. Because emotions are the subjective experience of patients, they are not easily quantified. However, the latest fMRI research has shown that emotion and brain function are related and that understanding emotion is valuable for understanding patients' cognitive function and its potential relationship with psychosis. Emotion regulation can be divided into two different categories based on when in the sequence of emotion regulation they appear. Cognitive reappraisal is antecedent-focused, and suppression is response-focused. I hypothesize that cognitive reappraisal can decrease maladaptive thought and emotions. In contrast, expressive suppression can reduce the appearance of emotion but not inner emotion. Furthermore, inhibiting a preference may not stop maladaptive emotions from arising over a long period of time. Methods: Two groups were recruited in study: a clinical group of patients with psychosis and a nonclinical group of healthy adolescents with no record of mental illness. Twenty-four psychotic patients were recruited from Early Assessment Services for Young People (EASY) in Queen Mary Hospital, and 30 nonclinical participants were recruited from nongovernmental organizations and schools. The participants ranged from 17 to 34 years old and were native Cantonese speakers living in Hong Kong. They completed a variety of measures of emotion regulation, depression, and anxiety. Results: The clinical and nonclinical groups were similar on several dimensions, including their demographic information and pattern of strategy usage. A higher percentage used both emotion-regulation strategies to cope with maladaptive emotion, and fewer used a single strategy. However, the two groups had significantly different outcomes from using expressive suppression as their major emotion regulation pattern. The clinical group was more likely to have higher depressive symptoms (moderate to severe levels on the Beck Depression Inventory). Conclusion: It is valuable to assess emotion-regulation strategies in order to evaluate patients' habitual coping strategy. Cognitive reappraisal seems to allow participants to retain their cognitive function when maladaptive emotions are not fully occupying their cognitive resources. In contrast, when maladaptive emotion reaches a very high level, it cannot be contained through cognitive reappraisal. Habitual use of expressive suppression affects cognitive functioning and depletes resources that could be used for other regulation attempts. Unsuccessfully regulated maladaptive emotions could be a risk factor that occupies the cognitive functioning of psychotic patients. In order to solidify this hypothesis, further longitudinal research on psychotic patients' emotional history is needed. More research is needed to understand the relationship between maladaptive emotions, cognitive function, and psychosis. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5204641 Subjects: Psychoses Emotions