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Psychosis as a Personal Crisis
Psychosis as a Personal Crisis seeks to challenge the way people who hear voices are both viewed and treated. This book emphasises the individual variation between people who suffer from psychosis and puts forward the idea that hearing voices is not in itself a sign of mental illness.
In this book the editors bring together an international range of expert contributors, who in their daily work, their research or their personal acquaintance, focus on the personal experience of psychosis.
Further topics of discussion include:
accepting and making sense of hearing voices
the relation between trauma and paranoia
the limitations of contemporary psychiatry
the process of recovery.
This book will be essential reading for all mental health professionals, in particular those wanting to learn more about the development of the hearing voices movement and applying these ideas to better understanding those in the voice hearing community.
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Hallucination
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, perception, and our knowledge of the world. In recent years, neuroimaging techniques and scientific findings on the nature of hallucination, combined with interest in new philosophical theories of perception such as disjunctivism, have brought the topic of hallucination once more to the forefront of philosophical thinking. Scientific evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry sheds light on the functional role and physiology of actual hallucinations; some disjunctivist theories offer a radically new and different philosophical conception of hallucination. This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of hallucination, offering essays by both scientists and philosophers.
Contributors first consider topics from psychology and neuroscience, including neurobiological mechanisms of hallucination and the nature and phenomenology of auditory-verbal hallucinations. Philosophical discussions follow, with contributors first considering disjunctivism and then, more generally, the relation between hallucination and the nature of experience.
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István Aranyosi, Richard P. Bentall, Paul Coates, Fabian Dorsch, Katalin Farkas, Charles Fernyhough, Dominic H. ffytche, Benj Hellie, Matthew Kennedy, Fiona Macpherson, Ksenija Maravic da Silva, Peter Naish, Simon McCarthy-Jones, Matthew Nudds, Costas Pagondiotis, Ian Phillips, Dimitris Platchias, Howard Robinson, Susanna Schellenberg, Filippo Varese
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1030 Alice in wonderland: A rare side effect of montelukast
Introduction Alice in wonderland syndrome (AIWS), also known as Todd’s syndrome, is a neuropsychological condition that causes a set of symptoms with alteration of body image. These distortions include appearing smaller(micropsia) or larger(macropsia) or appearing to be closer or farther than they are. The exact cause of AIWS is currently unknown. Some associations include, migraine, temporal lobe epilepsy, brain tumors, psychoactive drugs or Epstein-Barr-virus. The treatment for this disease primarily aims at treating the underlying reason as to why the patient had the event. Report of case(s) 7-year-old boy presents to sleep clinic for nighttime hallucinations. Nightly episodes described as body parts that seem abnormally large or small and people talking very fast. Events lasted 15 minutes. Patient had full recall and developed anxiety when falling asleep. Medications at presentation: vitamins, melatonin, Montelukast. Montelukast was discontinued. Referred to neurology for video EEG, which was negative for frontal lobe seizures. Due to restless sleep and snoring, sleep study and ferritin was ordered. He was found to have mild OSA with an AHI of 2.2 and a ferritin level of 28. The patient was not considered a surgical candidate for his mild OSA; therefore, watchful waiting and re-initiation of montelukast proceeded with initiation of oral iron. At sleep clinic follow up, family noted improvement of hallucinations for 2-3 months and then restart, with worsening. Upon medication review, Montelukast was the inciting factor to the presence and resolution of hallucinations. Conclusion In this patient the montelukast seemed to be the triggering factor of AIWS. It has been suggested that the inhibition of leukotriene receptors in the brain could be responsible for this drug reaction. No other obvious triggers, or results of work up were able to better explain his resolution once he discontinued montelukast. This just further promotes close pharmacologic vigilance in the pediatric population. Support (if any)
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Did you hear that? : help for children who hear voices
Written in simple terms this therapeutic storybook can be integrated into either directed or non-directed therapies. It is designed to introduce the condition of auditory and visual hallucinations into the treatment room in a non-threatening manner, encouraging child-clients to express their feelings and struggles associated with their hallucinatory experiences, while reassuring them that other children also experience this phenomenon. This book can also provide perspective and understanding about the condition to parents, siblings, and extended family members, as well as to other professionals such as educators, health care professionals, social workers, probation officers and lawyers.
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Hallucinations Under Psychedelics and in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Interdisciplinary and Multiscale Comparison
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The recent renaissance of psychedelic science has reignited interest in the similarity of drug-induced experiences to those more commonly observed in psychiatric contexts such as the schizophrenia-spectrum. This report from a multidisciplinary working group of the International Consortium on Hallucinations Research (ICHR) addresses this issue, putting special emphasis on hallucinatory experiences. We review evidence collected at different scales of understanding, from pharmacology to brain-imaging, phenomenology and anthropology, highlighting similarities and differences between hallucinations under psychedelics and in the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Finally, we attempt to integrate these findings using computational approaches and conclude with recommendations for future research.
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The real and its double
As a maverick philosopher unafraid of challenging the ideas and methods of his colleagues, Clément Rosset's work attempts to connect sometimes-lofty academic philosophy with the concerns of everyday life. For decades, he has worked to illuminate some of the most obscure metaphysical issues, often using popular film, theatre, novels, and comic books to illustrate his ideas, and as a result he has gained a reputation as both a happy sage and a singular mind. In The Real and Its Double, expertly translated by Chris Turner, Rosset takes on the question of the Real and humanity's natural ability to sidestep and bypass it. The key to this type of evasion, Rosset suggests, is a certain form of oracular thinking that lies buried in the origins of Western metaphysics and psychology. Here, Rosset eschews the prolix and paradoxical psychological theories of Derrida and Lacan in favor of an exceptional lucidity that speaks to his Nietzschean-tragic love of life. If good philosophy can be defined as expressing complicated things in a simple way, then here, in one of his best-known works, Rosset has proven himself a master-- Summary other than Library of Congress.
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Brak efektu tDCS (anoda F3/katoda Cpz) u pacjenta z ciężkimi, opornymi na leczenie halucynacjami cenestetycznymi
W artykule przedstawiono opis przypadku 57-letniego pacjenta od ponad 20 lat chornjacego na schizolrenie, z wyslepnjacynri ciezkiini, opornymi na leczenie omamami cenestetycznymi, ktdre sa zlokalizowane w okolicy narzadów plciowych. Ze wzgledn na brak alternatyw terapeutycznych przeprowadzono serie zabiegdw przezczaszkowej stymulacji prüdem stalym, ktdre byly nakierowane na kore soinalosensoryczna reprezeiilnjaca okolice narzadów plciowych. Nasilenie objawdw oceniano za poinoca Clinical Global Impression (CGI, Severity and Improvement), Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) oraz trzech skal wizualno-analogowych, oddzielnie dla nastepiijacych, charakterystycznych cech: „ogdlny dyskomfort\", „uczucie przebijania sic jader\" oraz „bdl\". Po ukohezeniu 3-tygodniowej serii zabiegdw przezczaszkowej stymulacji prüdem stalym nie uzyskano zmian iniedzy poczalkowa a koiicowa ocena kliniczny.
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