Recovery of the Self in Psychosis

Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon, PhD, is a rehabilitation psychologist and full professor at the department of psychology in Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She studies different psychological aspects of coping with illnesses, especially serious mental illnesses, and has been involved in practicing and supervising psychotherapy for over 20 years.She is an author of over 150 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in the field of clinical-rehabilitation psychology.Paul H. Lysaker, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center and professor of clinical psychology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, USA. He has over 35 years of experience providing mental health treatment to adults diagnosed with serious mental illness. He has been active in clinical research for over 30 years and is an author of over 480 peer-reviewed papers related to wellness and recovery from serious mental illness.

• Hasson-Ohayon & Lysaker, The role of Metacognition and mentalization in the recovery of the self: introduction and overview. Salaminios & Debbané, A Mentalization-based treatment framework to support the recovery of the self in emerging psychosis during adolescence. Leonhardt & Vohs, Adapting Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy for Early Psychosis (MERIT-EP): a focus on insight and recover of the self. Salvatore, Ottavi, Popolo & Dimaggio, The process of recovery of sense of self in the face of persecutory delusions and hostility. Ridenour, The recover of the self in adults with delusions: a mentalization-based perspective. Bargenquast, Schweitzer & O’Connor, Transference and countertransference in the recovery of self in metacognitively-orientated therapies for psychosis. Buck and Lysaker, The potential for reduction or discontinuation of antisychotic medication with the use of Metacognitive Reflective and Insight Therapy (MERIT). Roe, Lysaker, Hasson-Ohayon & Yanos, Narrative Enhancement Cognitive Therapy (NECT): the recover of the self from internalized stigma. McLeod & Gumley, The recovery of the self while coping with negative symptoms. Hasson-Ohayon, Lavi, Igra & Roe, The recovery of the self through Therapeutic Alliance Focused Group Therapy. Hamm, Beasley & Mazor, Trauma and meaning-making in the recovery of the self: implications for Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT). Korsbek, A common journey: the recovery of the self in psychosis through therapeutic interactions. Lysaker & Hasson-Ohayon, The recovery of the self in psychosis: a concluding unscientific postscript.

'About once every ten years there is a breakthrough in our approach to severe mental illness that can be categorically identified as significantly advancing psychotherapeutic approaches to these conditions. This book has the potential to change the way all those who work with serious mental illnesses practice, making this challenging endeavour more fruitful and constructive. This is an excellent collection of practically oriented contributions by world leading clinicians of the metacognitive mentalizing approach.' - Professor Peter Fonagy, OBE, FMedSci, FBA, FAcSS; Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, UK; Director, UCLPartners Mental Health and Behaviour Change Programme; Chief Executive, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families; National Clinical Advisor on Children’s Mental Health, NHS England/Improvement'This is an essential read for anyone interested in facilitating the recovery of individuals with psychosis. It takes the concepts of metacognition and mentalization out of the lab and into actual clinical practice. Further, what I especially appreciate is that it puts the humanity and essence of being a person into the treatment of psychosis and conceptualizes recovery as more than remission of symptoms. Thus, it gives hope to both those who treat psychosis as well as those who experience it. I strongly recommend it for trainees and practicing clinicians.' - David L. Penn, PhD, Linda Wagner Martin Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA'The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis: Contributions from Metacognitive and Mentalization Based Oriented Psychotherapy is a milestone in the direly needed promotion of psychotherapy for people with psychosis. A central message is that therapeutic interventions for psychosis must go beyond mere symptom reduction. Instead, the bottom line is to achieve recovery by fostering patients’ sense of agency, self-reflectivity, and by re-integrating their fragmented intersubjective experience. This timely volume covers a broad range of interdisciplinary psychotherapeutic approaches to psychosis – from constructivist to psychodynamic perspectives. It is essential reading for clinicians who want genuine improvement of their patients’ well-being.' - Martin Brüne, Professor of Psychiatry, LWL University Hospital Bochum, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; author, Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine; editor, The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine