http://my.counseling.org/2012/10/24/the-inpatient-therapist-individuals-with-psychosis-the-really-sick-reactive-disengagement-part-3/ ACA blogs, written by counselors, for counselors: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:58:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://my.counseling.org/2012/10/24/the-inpatient-therapist-individuals-with-psychosis-the-really-sick-reactive-disengagement-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-33176 MH Social Worker Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:53:57 +0000 http://my.counseling.org/?p=6913#comment-33176 Thanks for this post ! I’m new to this field and am looking for innovative and humane and respectful ways to engage with clients!

]]> http://my.counseling.org/2012/10/24/the-inpatient-therapist-individuals-with-psychosis-the-really-sick-reactive-disengagement-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-30521 Ray McKinnis Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:12:27 +0000 http://my.counseling.org/?p=6913#comment-30521 Hi Jill,
WOW–Thank you! You describe perfectly my experience with my brother. He was finishing his PhD in theoretical math at Harvard when he decided to get some help with an issue he had been struggling all his life–he had always felt like a girl. ( In fact, later mother said he was a girl the first 3-4 months of his life; then he ‘became’ a boy.) Since he now had health insurance insurance, he went over to Mass General to see a psychiatrist to help him understand what he was experiencing. They diagnosed him as paranoid schizophrenic and wanted to medicate him. He knew that was not what he needed but they hospitalized him anyway.
He began to develop an alternative fantasy world to help him feel safe and make sense of what he was experiencing. The psychiatrists took this as a confirmation of their diagnosis and tried to ‘argue’ him back into their reality–completely discounting his description of what he thought and felt.
I visited him for 5 days. I entered his world. It made perfect sense to me given the way we were raised and the emotions and perceptions he had to deal with. After 5 days of affirming him and his experiences, he emerged from his fantasy world and was functional again. Unfortunately, I had to leave and the psychiatrists had their way and he lived the rest of his life (over 45 years) in a drug-induced state of mind.
Yours is the first and clearest description of what happened to him I have ever read.
Thanks,
Ray

]]> http://my.counseling.org/2012/10/24/the-inpatient-therapist-individuals-with-psychosis-the-really-sick-reactive-disengagement-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-28349 Henry Strick Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:23:06 +0000 http://my.counseling.org/?p=6913#comment-28349 Thank you for this excellent article! From a European standpoint, I miss a little bit that you don’t refer to the Hearing Voices Network, started decades ago by the two Dutch researchers Prof Marius Romme and Sandra Escher, who published the excellent book “Making Sense of Voices” about their ideas (as well as many articles, etc.). Their ideas would seem to fit very well with yours!!

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