This book shows how psychological and social interventions can help people with psychosis. It brings together both theoretical chapters that contribute to the reconceptualization of psychosis and clinical cases illustrating how contemporary psychotherapeutic intervention models can be applied in the treatment of this mental health condition, with reflections, strategies and practical guidelines demonstrating how these models can inform professional practice in mental healthcare.  

Chapters brought together in this volume aim to reflect a paradigm shift in psychosis care. They present person-centered models that lead to a way of seeing, understanding and treating psychosis that is very different from the traditional biomedical model. Current authors and approaches are revolutionizing an outdated model trapped in purely pharmacological actions and tautological explanations of a biological nature, where symptom control is the basic and fundamental form of approach, and in which psychotherapeutic actions take second place as subsidiary to the former. Approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Acceptance and Recovery Therapy by Levels, Open Dialogue, Compassion-Centered Therapy or the Hearing Voices movement, to name but a few of those presented in this book, represent a journey of self-knowledge and learning for those recovering from psychosis, and have an intense transformative potential for the therapeutic team.

The fundamental principle that guides this book is to share models belonging to psychology that aim at personal development while respecting the needs, values and goals of each person, and that can be adopted by any professional or student of clinical psychology, psychiatry, nursing, social work or any other discipline searching for more humanistic approaches to treat psychosis.

Juan Antonio Díaz-Garridoholds a PhD in Clinical Sciences from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, and is a clinical psychologist specialized in contextual-behavioral therapies working at the Dr. Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria (HUDGCDN), Spain. He is co-editor of the bookTerapia de Aceptación y Compromiso en Psicosis: Aceptación y Recuperación por Niveles (ART) [Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Psychosis: Acceptance and Recovery by Levels (ART)] (Pirámide, 2021) and teaching director of several editions of the specialized training course in intervention in psychosis jointly developed by ITACA training and the Madrid Open University (UDIMA), Spain. He currently coordinates and participates in various research projects associated with the HUDGCDN Psychiatry Service.

Raquel Zúñiga is a clinical psychologist working at the acute hospitalization unit of the University Hospital Complex of the Canary Islands (CHUC). She is specialized in neuropsychology and contextual models and is co-editor of the bookTerapiade Aceptación y Compromiso en Psicosis: Aceptación y Recuperación por Niveles (ART) [Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Psychosis: Acceptance and Recovery by Levels (ART)] (Pirámide, 2021). She currently participates in various research projects associated with the HUDGDN Psychiatry Service.

Horus Laffite is a clinical psychologist working at the Dr. Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria, Spain. He is specialized in neuropsychology and contextual therapies and holds a law degree. He is co-editor of the bookTerapia de Aceptación y Compromiso en Psicosis: Aceptación y Recuperación por Niveles (ART) [Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Psychosis: Acceptance and Recovery by Levels (ART)] (Pirámide, 2021) and currently co-directs the specialized training course in intervention in psychosis jointly developed by ITACA training and the Madrid Open University (UDIMA), Spain. He participates in various research projects associated with the HUDGDN Psychiatry Service.

Eric Morris is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University and a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Northern Health in Melbourne, Australia. He is a founding member and former director of the Acceptance and Commitment Health Special Interest Group of the British Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapies. Eric develops research projects on psychological approaches to support recovery from psychosis, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. He is co-editor of the bookAcceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis (Wiley, 2013) and co-author of the bookACT for Recovery from Psychosis (Context Press, 2018). He is a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.

Chapter 1 - Toward a change of paradigm in psychosis: A contextual phenomenological approach.- Chapter 2 - Eppur si mouve.- Chapter 3 - Rethinking Antipsychotics: Evidence-Based Medicine Calls for A Dramatic Change in Their Use.- Chapter 4 - Psychosis pills do much more harm than good and should not be used.- Chapter 5 - Advocating for integrated therapy in the social environment to treat schizophrenia problems.- Chapter 6 - Contextualizing psychosis behaviors and what to do about them.- Chapter 7 - Culturally adapted CBT for psychosis .- Chapter 8 - The Power Threat Meaning Framework& psychosis.- Chapter 9 - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis.- Chapter 10 - Person-Based Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis.- Chapter 11 - The phenomenological perspective and metacognitive psychotherapy in addressing psychosis.- Chapter 12 - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Contextual therapy in the approach to psychosis.- Chapter 13 - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Recovery fromPsychosis.- Chapter 14 - Acceptance& Commitment Therapy for psychosis in an inpatient context.- Chapter 15 - Using acceptance and commitment therapy within a functional analysis informed therapy for hearing voices.- Chapter 16 - The use of Therapist Self-Disclosure in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis.- Chapter 17 - Acceptance and Recovery Therapy by levels for Psychosis (ART). A context-centred model.- Chapter 18 - About hobbits, jedi, goddesses and magical energies. Clinical cases from ART.- Chapter 19 - Psychosocial rehabilitation: An art approach. Clinical cases.- Chapter 20 - The incluyete (get involved) program: A socio-educational experience for social inclusion in mental health.- Chapter 21 - Attention Centred on what is Important for the Person (ACIP) approach to a First-Episode Psychosis (FEP).- Chapter 22 - An approximation to a relational approach for psychosis: Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP).- Chapter 23 - Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) - Informed Interventions for Psychosis.- Chapter 24 - Personality or psychosis, a complex binomial.- Chapter 25 - Mindfulness and compassion as a path to recovery and personal discovery: A first-episode schizophrenia case study.- Chapter 26 - Compassion Focused Therapy for Voices and Unusual Experiences.- Chapter 27 - Clinical case: Compassion-focused therapy.- Chapter 28 - The Wall of Disconnection.- Chapter 29 - Learning to relate differently to hearing voices.- Chapter 30 - Psychological intervention with relatives of patients with psychotic disorders.- Chapter 31- Family intervention in psychosis: A case.- Chapter 32 - The transformative power of the open dialogue approach In the mental health field.- Chapter 33 - Raúl: Be noise amidst the din, and silence in the murmur. Open dialogue and first episodes of Psychosis.- Chapter 34 - Conflicted Stories. A case of expanded reality.- Chapter 35 - Epiloge: Overcoming adversities.