Garfield, David (Ed). <br/><br/>
Beyond medication :  therapeutic engagement and the recovery from psychosis / 
edited by David Garfield and Daniel Mackler. 
 - London :  Routledge,  2009. 
 - 216 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>PART 1: Engaging the Patient:- 1. Strengthening the patient--2. The initial engagement in the psychotherapy of psychosis, with and without an asylum -- 3. Making contact with the chronically regressed patient -- 4. The role of the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of seriously disturbed individuals --PART 2: The Elements of change:- 5. Sustaining relationships : cure, care, and recovery -- 6. Sustaining relationships in milieu treatment: a corollary to summers-- 7. The process  of therapeutic change : trauma, dissociation, and therapeutic symbiosis -- 8. Technical challenges in the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic depression -- 9. Practicing the impossible profession in impossible places--PART 3: Listening to the patient: stories of what really works:- 10. Leaving schizophrenia : the returning home of the awakened mind -- 11. Life in the mines : a retrospective on my therapy--12. The experience of being medicated in schizophrenia : a subjective inquiry and implications for psychotherapy-- PART 4: Concluding Chapter:-  13. Sustaining the therapeutic approach : therapists may need help too! 
<br/><br/> 'Beyond Medication' focuses on the creation and evolution of the therapeutic relationship as the agent of change in the recovery from psychosis. This book will be essential reading for all mental health professionals working with psychosis. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415463874 (pbk.) :  �19.99 9780415463867 (hbk.) :  �55.00 9780415463874 (Paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychoses--Treatment<br/>Psychotherapist and patient.<br/>Therapeutic alliance.<br/>Psychotherapy.<br/>Health and Wellbeing.<br/>Clinical psychology<br/>Psychotherapy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC512  / .B49 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.89 GAR 616.8\'9