Person-Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressing Psychosis

Professor Paul Chadwick, PhD, is Head of Clinical Psychology at the Royal South Hants Hospital, and Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton. He has an international reputation for his ground-breaking, applied research over the past 20 years on cognitive therapy for psychosis and is lead author on an infl uential book written with M.J. Birchwood and P. Trower – Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia, also published by John Wiley and Sons.

• About the Author ixAcknowledgements xiChapter 1 Person-Based Cognitive Therapy (PBCT) for Psychosis 1Chapter 2 Relationship Building, Therapist Assumptions and Radical Collaboration 20Chapter 3 Framework for PBCT: The Zone of Proximal Development 37Chapter 4 Working with Symptomatic Meaning 58Chapter 5 Relationship to Internal Experience: Mindfulness Practice 78Chapter 6 Working with Schemata 98Chapter 7 Self-Acceptance and the Symbolic Self 117Chapter 8 PBCT Groups: Principles and Practice 138Chapter 9 Ending and the Process of Change 157Appendix BAVQ–R 174References 177Index 183