Drawing on his work in psychoanalysis, Stijn Vanheule seeks to answer this question, which carries significant implications for mental health as a whole. With a combination of theory from Freud to Lacan, present-day research, and compelling examples from his own patients and well-known figures such as director David Lynch and artist Yayoi Kusama, he explores psychosis in an engaging way that can benefit those suffering from it as well as the people who care for and interact with them.
Nov 28, 2024
Stijn Vanheule Why Psychosis Is Not So
Crazy A Road Map to Hope and
Recovery for Families and Caregivers An expert’s guide to humanizing psychosis through communication
offers key insights for family and friends to support loved ones
during mental health crises. Are we all a little crazy? Roughly 15 percent of the population
will have a psychotic experience, in which they lose contact with
reality. Yet we often struggle to understand and talk about
psychosis. Interactions between people build on the stories they
tell each other—stories about the past, about who they are or what
they want. In psychosis we can
no longer rely on these stories, this shared language. So
how should we communicate with someone experiencing reality in a
radically different way than we are?