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# Back to Life, Back to Normality: Volume 1: Cognitive Therapy, Recovery and Psychosis

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Review: very useful - Very practical book for care givers, for people with love ones who is coping with psychotic experiences. Very readable and down to earth.
Review: Hope for families and individuals - Part of UWashington class on CBTp for caregiving families called REACH. Outstanding!

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ very useful
*by D***U on May 22, 2013*

Very practical book for care givers, for people with love ones who is coping with psychotic experiences. Very readable and down to earth.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hope for families and individuals
*by M***A on June 25, 2020*

Part of UWashington class on CBTp for caregiving families called REACH. Outstanding!

### ⭐⭐⭐ Very elementary but with good problem-solving 3.5*
*by N***K on June 27, 2009*

This book is for patients & caregivers by British (land of socialized medicine) psychiatrists & social services personnel--& provides URLs: British Assn. of Behavioral & Cognitive Psychotherapies: [...], British psych society: [...], & [...]. Chapters are by different authors with significantly different styles & depth. Meant for laymen, it has little technical languaging, but it needs considerable editing for style/grammar, & its' reading level is VERY low. However, per Rathod, p. 176: "Once you have sought expert help, it is important to get on & try to help yourself." Indeed, authors assume patients (suffering from psychosis, paranoia, schizophrenia, etc.) are on anti-psychotic medication while employing Cognitive Therapy (CT). It ignores Freud's subconscious & Jung's unconscious yet asserts that CT can effect cures. I find that difficult to believe--rather CT seems to be a coping technique like Behavioral Modification (which can quickly & effectively reduce symptoms & improve the quality of life for phobias & other ailments). But it's directed at symptoms not causes. But, per p. 53: paranoid is just an extreme of the norm & per p. 63, voice hearing is normal. Thus, IMHO the best part of this book is its' problem solving techniques & analysis of assumptions. The vast majority of "normal" people suffer from the same suppositions & lack knowledge of problem-solving, e.g. decision theory. Cromarty & Dudley pp. 48-57, Siddle p. 80, Gray p. 122, Brabban pp. 132-134, & Rathod p. 177 elucidate what Brabban's Table 7-1 calls Cognitive Distortions: black & white thinking, over-generalization, mental filters, jumping to conclusions, & emotional reasoning. Cromarty & Dudley add attribution--attributing specific motivations to other people when in truth p. 49: "Chance events happen frequently, & if we are really looking for coincidence & meaning there are actually lots out there to find" & p. 52: "We may have to work very hard to consider we could be mistaken." Or, per Brabban, p. 132: "Our schema or core beliefs lead us to sometimes distort the information that is available to us. We are likely to focus on aspects of the situation that fit with our own beliefs & discount the bits that don't tally with what we believe." So, per Rathod, p. 177: "Try & gather as much real evidence as you can before making any decisions about other people's intentions" & per Brabban, p. 161: "It is important to remember that our core elements, i.e., thoughts, feelings, & behavior can change & affect one another." Appropos IMHO! However, the VERY simple checklists, forms, childlike explanations & examples--remind me of the movie "Idiocracy" & "The Dumbing of America." Still, per Turkington, p. 77: [it's] not the presence of the voice...[but] the attitude toward it [that matters]. I suggest, regarding hearing voices, that the authors employ Buddhist shamatha (tranquil abiding) meditation--a meditator just watches thoughts go by without delving into their content--like seeing spam show up in your spam folder--just "let it be." Regular practice increases the delay between thoughts/words. Pema Chodron thinks "thinking" when she perceives a thought ( How to Meditate with Pema Chodron: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind & Bodhisattva Mind: Teachings to Cultivate Courage and Awareness in the Midst of Suffering ), but with mental patients, I'd substitute the word spam. It's important to identify words/voices as something you have or experience--NOT part of you or defining you. Per Rathod p. 175, "Would others (e.g. Dr Who) think this way?"

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