"Psychotherapy with Psychotic Patients" - Part 1

[abilify10mg]

i'm a psychotic patient(paranoid schizophrenia).i really find therapy very helpful.

[MsLAB24]

@abilify10mg what are you doing in that therapy, plz i need to know!?

[LanceHertford]

@abilify10mg That's the thing. I see so many of you guys who they just dope up, and (having PTSD and psychosis from sexual abuse, myself) I think "Good, lord, just listen to them. They need someone to talk to. Even if some of it sounds crazy, it's still a manifestation of something that any person's mind can do." I have a schizophrenic friend, and that's what I do. I'm not a therapist- I'm just a friend. But I LISTEN to him. Just let him talk and tell me what he's going through.

[PsychotherapyForum]

Thank you for posting this excellent lecture. Please upload more!

[Dorothyinstead]

The mark of a good psychologist is one who gets truly involved with the patient. A psychologist for whom the best reward is not monetary but patient wellness. Show me a psychologist who is in it mostly for the money and I'll show you a lousy psychologist.

[longtang1234]

when you treat someone as a person (ie you speak to them with respect), they--no matter how emotionally disturbed--are more apt to act like a human-being.

[LanceHertford]

@longtang1234 Right. Because, with psychotic and schizophrenic patients, they're already surrounded by beings and voices that do not treat them with respect. If you want to stand out among all those voices, be the one voice who is a friend, who treats that person with respect and just listens. Don't just be another hostile entity poking at them and forcing things on them they don't want.

[gurgast]

Is it just me, or is this man producing burbling nonsense?

[longtang1234]

he is talking about treating patients with respect rather than dismissing them as "psychotic" as though there is nothing more to be done except with meds. When you stop thinking of them as a person, then you are just looking at a cluster of symptoms to each of which you just throw a medication at.

[pf37rss]

its just you

[natlawful]

@gurgast nah its definitely just you my friend.

[CharlyGreyWolf]

3525 views and no comments?? don´t get it.

Well is very interesting hearing about the use of psychotherapy with psychotic patienes, since there is no much information about this matter around

Peace

[moynanc]

There is lots of ongoing research around concerning psychotherapy use with psychosis-since early 1990s they have considered use of CBT, and family therapy use has been investigated since 1970s. (only came across this video because I'm doing an essay on the topic-but there is a lot of information about-obviously lots of conflicting information, but then that's the nature of psychology! :)