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
7 - Why me? Why now? Understandingvulnerability from a cognitive perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- 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
This chapter aims to offer the reader an understanding of how negative attitudes (schemas) can work to keep psychotic symptoms going and prevent recovery. Techniques are described to identify such schemas and to develop more positive attitudes.
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- Back to Life, Back to NormalityCognitive Therapy, Recovery and Psychosis, pp. 127 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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