Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis: Philosophy, History and Clinical Practice

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Contents
Editors\' biographies
Editors and contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART 1 Historical background and philosophical context
	1 A view of the evolution of therapeutic communities for people suffering from psychosis
	2 The American contribution to therapeutic community for people with psychosis and a reflection on current milieu treatment in the United States
	3 The decline and rediscovery of the therapeutic community
	4 Exegesis, truth and tradition: a hermeneutic approach to psychosis
	5 Applying Bion\'s concept of psychotic personality to staff and patients
	6 When philosophy meets practice: setting up a Philadelphia Association community household
	7 Psychosis and the community of the question: training therapists in therapeutic community
PART 2 Treatment settings and clinical models
	8 The therapeutic community approach in forensic settings
	9 The treatment of substance use and mental health problems in Bulgaria
	10 Medication as a tool in therapeutic and rehabilitative programmes in communities for people suffering from schizophrenic disorders
	11 Consent, accountability and the future of therapeutic communities in the light of accompanied self-rehabilitation: the chemical asylum and the right to be socially sanctioned
	12 An exploration of the term autonomy: attitudes and philosophy for a modern concept in mental health
	13 Holding structures in a crisis centre: an applied psychoanalytical model
	14 Psychological care in therapeutic communities
	15 Madness, persecution and transference
	16 A community treatment programme for people in Krakow suffering from schizophrenia
PART 3 Alternative therapies and extended applications
	17 Surrealism, psychosis and the therapeutic community: a window onto the mental landscape
	18 The multifamily structured therapeutic community: reflections on the experience of the therapeutic community Tarsia, Italy
	19 The Farm House, Farooqabad, Sheikhupura, Pakistan
	20 Drama therapy in a community treatment programme
	21 Psychodrama and the psychotic member
	22 New visions in the long-term outpatient therapy of psychosis: the therapeutic community within the community
	23 Evidence for the effectiveness of therapeutic community treatment of the psychoses
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