Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self

Møller sheds light on the inner aspects of psychosis and psychosis risk, and its core experiential phenomena as a method of understanding the individual early psychosis development.
The book details how such experiences might take shape in the human mind and how a better understanding achieved through detailed clinical conversations can lead to earlier detection and improved interventions. Møller also outlines the subjectivity model (also called Ipseity Disturbance Model) and presents a broad review of different treatment approaches and settings, in which work with disturbed self-experience could be integrated, including psychotherapy, in-patient milieu therapy, supportive treatments, psychoeducational family work, local networking, and medication.
Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self will prove essential for experienced and specialised clinicians as well as the more generally interested reader.

Paul Møller, DrMedSci, is a consultant psychiatrist, senior researcher, and former Research Director and Head of Department of Mental Health Research and Development for the Division of Mental Health and Addiction at Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Norway.His early publications contributed to triggering the re-discovery of the concept basic self-disturbance, and Møller is one of the main authors of the EASE Manual (Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience).

A Central Conversation  Use of the term schizophrenia  1. An initial aerial view of the field, then heading for the inside  2. To understand is a universal human need  3. The prodromal phenomena illuminate the core of existence- aiding the understanding of psychosis  4. The problem of defining the prodromal phase  5. The view of science determines the view of psychosis  6. Subjectivity  7. The self and basic self-disturbance  8. Diagnostics, phenomenology and the EASE manual in the field of psychosis risk  9. The five domains of the EASE manual  10. The view of psychosis treatment among professionals and health authorities is changing  11. What about other models of understanding and theraputic approaches to psychosis? Do they use subjectivity, self-experience or self-understanding as explicit concepts?  12. Self-disturbance as part of a wider treatment context  13. Conversation and phenomenology  14. Theraputic effects and obstacles  15. Approaches and settings in treatment directed as basic self-disturbances  16. Outline of a pragmatic seven-step treatment module  17. Implementing the subjectivity model