Expressed Emotions
Living with a family member with a psychiatric diagnosis can lead to anger and worrying. This anger and worry can be measured and is called Expressed Emotions. More expressed Emotions is correlated with more relapses. By the way high EE can also be measured on staff of wards. Families who are assisted with structured family work develop less EE. See page on family work. Some people critisized the editor for putting Expressed Emotions under the heading interaction with a person who is or has been psychotic. They say family adverstity is a cause, yes that can be, see under: epidemiological findings, childhood adversities, but EE is typically a mixture of anger and worrying that can be induced by living with a person of whom you think is dependent on you and has also upsetting behaviour. So people are catched in a dilemma: distancing the relatonship but than you are afraid the person gets into trouble or caring but then you think you have to endure upsetting behaviour. Supporting the family to find a way of coping and also preserving their own interests works very well.
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General: Heritability of psychosis and social factors
Richard Bentall (University of Liverpool, UK); Title of lecture: “From social risk factors to psychotic symptoms”
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Mainstream psychiatry maintains that "schizophrenia" is a brain disease, citing research that indicates that the brains of people with psychosis are different from the brains of "normal" people. However research shows that the brain interacts with, and is changed by social experiences. We now know that antipsychotic medications can change brain structures as well.
Brian Koehler, editor of the Neurobiology pages, has discussed the significant overlap between the neuroscience of psychosis and the neuroscience of stress.
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Is Diagnosis Destiny?
Annita Sawyer, Ph.D. presented, "Is Diagnosis Destiny?" at the 9th Annual Yale NEA-BPD Conference, May 10, 2013, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
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In the covid crisis some persons did better! More and more people stated that they enjoyed the quiteness. Is noise and just bustle an explanation for the finding that there is more psychosis in the big cities? In this item you can find new research.
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