Thompson, Laura and McCabe, R. (2016) ‘Good’ communication in schizophrenia: a conversation analytic definition. In: O'Reilly, M. and Lester, J.N. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan U.S., pp. 394-418. ISBN 9781137496850.
Abstract
Schizophrenia is one of the most serious conditions psychiatrists are likely to encounter. Its complex psychopathology includes changes in thought and perception — delusions and hallucinations. Along with personal distress, this detachment from ‘reality’ (psychosis) brings complexity to psychiatrists’ interviews with patients. Not least, at times, an ontological ‘incompatibility’. The clinician must walk a ‘tightrope’: asking questions of appropriate depth and pace, while maintaining an attitude of non-confrontation and non-collusion around psychotic symptoms (Turkington & Siddle, 1998). Meanwhile, the heterogeneous course and clinical presentation of schizophrenia (Van Os & Kapur, 2009) creates a second delicate balance to achieve. The psychiatrist must understand the individual in their unique psychosocial context: diagnostically disentangling ‘pathological’ behaviour from what may be valid attempts to deal with distress or disturbances caused by particular social circumstances (see BPS, 2014). Achieving this means putting patient experience at the heart of psychiatric communication — a ‘partnership’ paradigm of care (NICE, 2009), removed from psychiatry’s historic reputation of social repression.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Other Divisions > Other |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Sustainable Working Life, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2017 07:49 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2017 07:49 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19474 |
Statistics
Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.
Archive Staff Only (login required)
