Book contents
- Back to Life, Back to Normality
- Back to Life, Back to Normality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the authors
- Introduction
- 1 Where do Ibegin? (…or so many problems, so little time!)
- 2 What is normal?
- 3 Understandingparanoia and unusual beliefs
- 4 Voices
- 5 Overcomingnegative symptoms
- 6 Tablets and injections
- 7 Why me? Why now? Understandingvulnerability from a cognitive perspective
- 8 Helpingcarers help themselves using a cognitive approach
- 9 Staying well andmanaging setbacks
- Subject Index
5 - Overcomingnegative symptoms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Back to Life, Back to Normality
- Back to Life, Back to Normality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the authors
- Introduction
- 1 Where do Ibegin? (…or so many problems, so little time!)
- 2 What is normal?
- 3 Understandingparanoia and unusual beliefs
- 4 Voices
- 5 Overcomingnegative symptoms
- 6 Tablets and injections
- 7 Why me? Why now? Understandingvulnerability from a cognitive perspective
- 8 Helpingcarers help themselves using a cognitive approach
- 9 Staying well andmanaging setbacks
- Subject Index
Summary
Overview
This chapter aims to offer the reader an understanding of negative symptoms, such as low motivation and blunting of emotions. Techniques are described to help gradually lift these distressing symptoms.
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- Back to Life, Back to NormalityCognitive Therapy, Recovery and Psychosis, pp. 79 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009