... statement: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author. © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Mental health Emotions Psychosis Poetry Voice-hearing The creative arts offer people with a wide range...

...Rosalind Austin Purpose This paper aims to explore the efforts of four American women living with psychosis to chart their recovery process in published memoirs. Design/methodology/approach This paper looks at the different types of stigma that the patient-authors claim to encounter...

... of loss, dislocation, alienation and isolation” (Bhugra, 2004 , p. 129). Several studies of migrant and minority ethnic groups suggest that the risk of psychosis is substantially increased in migrants (Heinz et al., 2013 ; Kirkbride et al., 2012 ; Parrett and Mason, 2010). Veling’s...

... 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Evaluation schizophrenia practice-based approach lived experience peer support psychosis Hearing Voices Network expert by experience Hearing Voices assistant psychologist Since the beginning of the Hearing Voices...

...Amar Ghelani Purpose The Canadian government legalized cannabis in 2018 and funded harm reduction campaigns to educate youth about the risks. Cannabis can contribute to psychosis in vulnerable populations, and consumption is common among youth in Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI) programs...

...Paul Makin Purpose The aim of the paper is to describe Paul Makin’s psychiatric treatment after he developed a psychosis. Design/methodology/approach Paul describes how, after an acute episode of psychosis, he ended up in a psychiatric unit. This is his narrative account of his recovery...

... his recovery from alcohol addiction, then a period of complete wellness, until he developed a psychosis. He talks about how unbearable his admission was to an acute unit. Research limitations/implications Every single story in the Remarkable Lives series teaches us something different about mental...

... reports ideas of service users and family members for trauma-informed mental health services. A second paper describes an online survey seeking agreement between staff and service users of early intervention services for psychosis about practices of trauma-informed care. Both papers feature themes about...

...Sue Holttum Purpose This paper aims to examine three recent papers on psychosis and social inclusion in relation to people of Black African and African Caribbean heritage in the UK and the USA. Design/methodology/approach A search was carried out for recent papers on psychosis and social...

...Sue Holttum Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine two recent papers on Open Dialogue, an approach for people experiencing psychosis that involves people’s social networks from the beginning, and aims to empower the service user and their network to develop a shared view of what...

...Sue Holttum Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent papers on trauma, sleep and psychotic experiences to highlight the lack of attention given to sleep. Design/methodology/approach A search was carried out to find recent papers on psychosis or schizophrenia, trauma and sleep...

...Hannah White; Laura Price; Tom Barker Purpose Peer support (PS) has, over recent years, been implemented across a variety of NHS adult mental health settings. In November 2015, peer support workers (PSW) were introduced to an Early Intervention in Psychosis Service (EIS) in the Midlands...

...Sue Holttum Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight what helps and what is difficult about cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis (CBTp) in relation to recovery and social inclusion, how it can be adapted for a non-western culture, and how inclusion in communities in which people...

... nobody explained to me what was happening and I was abandoned at the hospital with nothing in my possession except the clothes I was wearing. It was a harrowing experience and I do not like to think about how many other people suffering with psychosis have been through the same thing. I was treated like...

... in two mental health services as part of a randomised trial. The other is the plan for a small pilot trial of a new treatment for psychosis called positive psychotherapy. It describes how the researchers planned to study the detail of what happens in their small trial, to help them improve the design...

... sessions, five of the seven service users had returned to education or started doing voluntary work, and in these ways their social inclusion improved. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Anxiety Social inclusion Schizophrenia CBT Psychosis Social skills training Although...

... The article summarises and builds on the outcomes of an earlier subjective wellbeing in psychosis study and arrives at original implications to challenge socially exclusive assumptions about limited emotional capabilities of those with SMI. The authors make suggestions for enhancing the wellbeing of people...

...Peter Chadwick Purpose The paper aims to discuss delusion as a creative experience. Design/methodology/approach The paper addresses narrative rendering of delusional thinking in detail and related styles of thought in artists. Findings Enhanced creativity during psychosis can be put...

...Sue Holttum Purpose This Research Watch seeks to summarise two recent research papers. The first evaluates a scheme that trains people in managing their mental health or physical condition to increase their chances of gaining employment. The second examines the social causes of psychosis...

... Recovery heroes Gordon McManus Psychosis Mental health RECOVERY Recovery heroes a profile of Gordon McManus Gordon McManus, Sarah Morgan, Jane Fradgley and Jerome Carson The influential Sainsbury Centre report, Making Recovery a Reality (Shepherd et al, 2008), talks about clinical and social...