Background Narratives of recovery from mental health distress have played a central role in
the establishment of the recovery paradigm within mental health policy and practice. As use …

Evidence suggests that dissociation is associated with psychotic experiences, particularly
hallucinations, but also other symptoms. However, until now, symptom-specific relationships …

Qualitative research has much to offer counsellors and psychotherapists, in terms of
generating new understandings of the complexities of the therapeutic process, and in …

The impact of the experience and diagnosis of mental illness on one's identity has long been
recognized; however, little is known about the impact of illness identity, which we define as …

In counselling and psychotherapy, a 'case'reflects the entirety of the involvement of the
client, couple or family, with the therapist and therapy agency where they have gone for …

Internalized stigma has been suggested to play a major role in negative changes in identity
in severe mental illness. Evidence suggests that roughly one-third of people with severe …

BACKGROUND: Good insight into illness in patients with schizophrenia is related not only to
medication compliance and high service engagement, but also to depression, low self …

There is nearly universal acceptance that persons with schizo-phrenia often experience a
profound disruption in their basic sense of self. But what does this disruption in sense of self …

The present chapter will take the publication date of the review by Berk (1992) as a starting
point and review developments over the past 15 years in our understanding of private …

Many adults who experience severe mental illness also suffer from deficits in metacognition-
put simply, thinking about one's own thought processes-limiting their abilities to recognize …