Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on September 15, 2005
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2006 32(1):17-19; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbi068
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From Being a Disorder to Dealing With Life: An Experiential Exploration of the Association Between Trauma and Psychosis
1 Trimbos-instituut, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction
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What You Have Is Who You Are |
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I was not yet 20 when my first psychosis emerged. I was convinced that we were on the verge of a world war. The public defense sirens were tested every first Monday of the month. To me, those sirens meant that the cruise missiles had already been launched. We had just minutes to do what had to be done: find each other and wait to die. Sometimes I could actually feel the radiation taking effect. I felt nauseous and believed that my hair was falling out. The rest of the world pretended to carry on as normal, but I could see that everyone was afraid. They knew that we were all about to suffer a slow, painful death, but nobody knew how to prepare for it. And so we all continued our daily lives with stolid determination. I experienced at the time that the world, including myself, began to move
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The Illusion of Cure |
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Psychiatric Alienation |
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No Psychotherapy for Psychotics |
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From Child Abuse to Distortion of Reality |
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Repetition of Trauma |
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Stages Toward a Psychosis |
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Help Discovering the Association With Life |
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Toward Recognition and Adequate Help? |
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e-mail: wboevink@trimbos.nl
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