ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2017
Posttraumatic Reactions to Psychosis: A Qualitative Analysis.
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- Experiencing Psychosis and Shame: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Strength and Patterns of Association.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Pooled it
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- Characterizing the patient experience of physical restraint in psychiatric settings via a linguistic, sentiment, and metaphor analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- How individuals with psychosis develop and maintain resilience to suicidal experiences through psychological therapy: a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Dynamics of recovery in psychosis, stigmatization, and microaggressions in mental healthcare: a qualitative study of service users' narratives.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- The impact of early intervention psychosis services on hospitalisation experiences: a qualitative study with young people and their carers.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- A call to action: informing research and practice in suicide prevention among individuals with psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Case analysis of long-term negative psychological responses to psychedelics.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Recovery journey of people with a lived experience of schizophrenia: a qualitative study of experiences.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
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- Making meaning of trauma in psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Trauma and psychosis: a qualitative study exploring the perspectives of people with psychosis on the influence of traumatic experiences on psychotic symptoms and quality of life.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Letter to the Editor: Targeting adverse stress-related consequences of the COVID-19 crisis in individuals with psychotic disorders and childhood maltreatment.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Article
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- 'Like a human being, I was an equal, I wasn't just a patient': Service users' perspectives on their experiences of relationships with staff in mental health services.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2020Article
- Refusing Medication Therapy in Involuntary Inpatient Treatment-A Multiperspective Qualitative Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
The current study aimed to evaluate the potentially traumatic aspects of psychotic symptoms and psychiatric treatment of psychosis using qualitative methods. Participants included 63 people with first episode psychosis or multiple psychotic episodes recruited from an inpatient psychiatric unit and an urban state psychiatric hospital in the North East region of the United States. Quasi-structured interviews were used to explore those aspects of symptoms and treatment that were perceived as traumatic Emotional reactions to the most traumatic aspect of symptoms and treatment, during and after the event, were also examined. Participants described a number of traumatogenic aspects of psychotic symptoms, including frightening hallucinations; suicidal thought/attempts, thoughts/attempts to hurt others; paranoia/delusions and bizarre/disorganized behavior or catatonia. Traumatic aspects of psychosis elicited emotions including anger, sadness and confusion, anxiety, and numbness at the time of event. Furthermore, many participants found aspects of treatment to be traumatic, including: being forced to stay in the hospital for a long time; experiencing upsetting side-effects; coercive treatments, including involuntary hospitalization, use of restraints, and forced medication; being exposed to aggressive patients; and mistreatment by professionals. These experiences elicited emotions of anger, sadness, distrust, and a sense of helplessness. Study findings suggest that the experiences both of psychotic symptoms and psychiatric treatment, potentially traumatic, can be a powerful barrier to engaging people in mental health services and facilitating recovery. Clinical implications were discussed.
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