I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! How to Help Someone Accept Treatment - 20th Anniversary Edition

Anyone who knows someone who has a mental illness would benefit from reading this book. It is research based and very readable.

Loved reading this book. A lot of helpful information.Anyone with a family member going through the mental challenges can relate to it.

Very helpful and easy to read. Great starting point on dealing with family crisis.

Anyone who has a family member with mental illness would benefit by reading this book. Dr Amador tells his personal story about his brother’s illness and how his way of speaking to him and other patients, have helped them get the help they need.

This seems to be a great book to understand the mental condition it teaches you about. The methods make sense and seem to be logical. We have a son that is jail and that makes it a lot harder to do using electronic jail mail, jail phone calls and jail video calls. Sad to watch him degrade and never understand what he is doing to himself (and all of us).

48 yr old with sudden onset of severe Bi-Polar 1 and two and a half years into refusing treatment, we needed answers and HELP! Our local NAMI group suggested this book and I immediately ordered several copies for myself & family members. We read the book discussed the techniques & most important, began implementing them. The lessons taught in the book are simply things anyone can do, just have a willing heart, humility, and desire to truly help the person you are speaking to. This literally was the game changer for our family, as we learned how to talk "with", NOT "AT" our loved one. We learned to swallow our pride, remove false expectations and began a new, more clear understanding of mental illness and living life with the afflicted person and how it alters their life experience. We are forever grateful for The author's insight, vulnerability and truthfulness.

Perfect read

Very interesting and educational

Helpful and informative

If you loved one has been diagnosed with psychosis or Schizophrenia. This is a must read and a wonderful moms true story

著者のXavier Amador氏は米国の臨床心理士で，と同時に重篤な統合失調症の兄をもつ。本書は専門書ではない。世界各国語で翻訳されており内容は難解ではないが，精神科医療の建設的な著書で150万部も読み継がれているとは驚きである。日本語もその例外ではない。毎回ではないが，原書の改訂版が上梓されると訳者を新たに得て新訳が出版されている(八重樫・藤井,2016;江畑・佐藤,2004)さて，統合失調症をはじめとして精神障害をもつ多くの人は，「私はどこも悪くない。助けなんかいらない」と，頑なに必要な治療を拒むので，家族や治療者は頭を抱え込んでしまう。本書の主眼は，どんなにはなばなしい陽性症状を呈する患者の発言(あるいは暴言)でも冷静に傾聴し，幻覚や妄想なども尊重し，安心感を与えるテクニックを説くことである。しかし，患者が激しい幻覚や妄想を呈し，自傷他害の恐れがあり，警察や救急を呼び出し強制入院させるーーそれも実の兄をーーという記述が痛々しくて心に響いた。病識のない，あるいは疾病失認のある統合失調症をもつ人のなかには，病気はてっきり過去のことで今はすっかり大丈夫だと信じ込んでいる人がいる。そのため，抗精神病薬の服薬を勝手にやめてしまい，再発・再入院を繰り返してしまう。うつ病や不安障害の患者は，苦痛を感じたら自発的に精神科医療の援助を求めてくる。これに対し，統合失調症や双極性障害の患者は自分自身には自覚症状がないので，周りからみていて異常でも精神科受診に繋がりにくい。それどころかこれらの人々は自分はなんともないのに家族や友人，医師から病人扱いされて治療を受けるようにとうるさくいわれて不快なのである。こうした患者の治療目標は，自分が病気であるのを認めさせることではなく，「どこも悪くない」が「何か助けが必要」であることに気づいてもらうことだ。著者は臨床心理士でもあり統合失調症の患者の家族でもあるという，多方向から米国の精神科医療の現場をつぶさに捉えている。今日の米国の精神科病棟がいかに快適で人道的か述べ，精神疾患も糖尿病のような身体疾患と同様に薬物療法による治療が必要だと強調する。＜文献＞ザビア・アマダー著　八重樫穂高訳　藤井康男訳,(2016),病気じゃないからほっといて: そんな人に治療を受け入れてもらうための新技法LEAP,星和書店.ザビア・アマダー著　アンナ＝リサ・ジョハンソン著　江畑敬介訳　佐藤美奈子訳,(2004),私は病気ではない;治療をこばむ心病める人たち,星和書店.

Must read for those with family suffering from mental health. Absolutely invaluable advice and resource. Thank you

You need to put in the time and effort to get the best from this book but it actually really helped me to maintain my relationship with my son, suffering from psychosis. The approach is counterintuitive so you must take a massive LEAP of faith to realises the benefits. LEAP is the approach which starts with listen. Worth reading.