John Read - Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Psychosis

Psychological, and biological approaches to psychosis

Second edition

Edited by John Read
and Jacqui Dillon

Second edition published 2013
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First edition published by Routledge 2004

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Models of madness: psychological, social, and biological approaches to psychosis / edited by John Read and Jacqui Dillon. 2nd edition.

pages cm. (The book series of the International Society for
Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis,
ISSN 1745-7483)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Schizophrenia. 2. SchizophreniaSocial aspects.

I. Read, John, 1952 editor of compilation. II. Dillon, Jacqui, editor of compilation.

RC514.M5485 2013

616.89'8dc23

2012047192

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After obtaining his PhD in Clinical Psychology in the Unites States in 1983, Dr Read worked as a Clinical Psychologist and a manager of mental health services in the Unites States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Most of his work has been with people who experience psychosis and are diagnosed as having schizophrenia.

In 1994 John joined the Psychology Department of the University of Auckland where, apart from undergraduate teaching and the professional training of postgraduate clinical psychology students, he has published numerous research papers, with psychiatrists and other psychologists, documenting the link between childhood adversity and psychosis. He has also published research about the infrequency of abuse inquiry by mental health professionals and the reasons for that, leading to a training programme on how and when to take trauma histories and how to respond to abuse disclosures. His other research publications include studies demonstrating that, contrary to the approach taken by most destigmatisation programmes, biological causal beliefs about mental health problems are related to increased fear and prejudice. He has also published research about the influence of the pharmaceutical industry.

In 2010 Professor Read was awarded the New Zealand Psychological Societys Hunter Award, presented, every three years, for excellence in scholarship and contribution to the profession. John is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis [www.isps.org] and is the Editor of the ISPS journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches [www.informaworld.com/psychosis].

In 2013 Dr Read accepted the posts of Professor of Clinical Psychology and Programme Director for the Doctorate of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool.

Other books by Dr Read:

Geekie, J. and Read, J. (2009). Making Sense of Madness: Contesting the Meaning of Schizophrenia . Routledge.

Read, J. and Sanders, P. (2010) A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems . PCCS.

Geekie, J., Randal, P., Lampshire, D. and Read, J. (eds) (2012). Experiencing Psychosis: Personal and Professional Perspectives . Routledge.

Jacqui Dillon is a campaigner, writer, international speaker and trainer specialising in hearing voices, psychosis, dissociation, trauma, abuse, healing, and recovery. She has worked in mental health services for more than 15 years, in community-, acute-, low-, medium- and high- secure settings, prisons, colleges and universities. She is the national Chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England, a Board member of Intervoice the International Network for Training, Education and Research into Hearing Voices, and a key figure in the Hearing Voices Movement internationally.

Jacqui is an Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, an Editorial Board member of the journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches , and part of the collective for Asylum, the Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry . She has published numerous articles and papers and is co- editor of Living with Voices: An Anthology of 50 Voice Hearers Stories of Recovery (PCCS, 2009) and of De- medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition (Palgrave, 2011).

Her experiences of surviving childhood abuse and subsequently using psychiatric services inform her work. She is an outspoken advocate and campaigner for humane, trauma- informed approaches to madness and distress.

For further information: www.jacquidillon.org.

Volkmar Aderhold Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Greifswald, Germany. Co-Editor, Psychotherapie der Psychosen: Integrative Behandlungsanstze aus Skandinavien .