Is Psychosis Meaningful? Trauma, Dissociation and Schizophrenia - Part II

Our mission is to re-imagine psychology for the 21st century through connection, exploration, and innovation. https://stillpoint.org/ Instagram:   / stillpointhq   Facebook:   / stillpointhq   Twitter:   / stillpointhq   LinkedIn:   / stillpointhq   --- In the second lecture in Understanding Delusions and Hallucinations from a Trauma and Dissociation Perspective, Dr. Moskowtiz explores the meaning of ‘psychosis’ over time, and the diagnosis of schizophrenia – from its creation by Bleuler and Jung in the early 20th century to its current use - and offers a consideration of how the diagnostics of schizophrenia could be improved. From the introduction to the lecture series: Professor Andrew Moskowitz analyses the recent transformation of the medical understanding of madness. There has been sustained resistance, driven by cognitive psychology research and insights from the trauma and dissociation field, that challenges the orthodoxy of viewing psychosis as an organic malfunction. Against this view of madness as ‘incomprehensible’, comes the position that psychotic symptoms are not only meaningful but that their meaning must be understood for genuine healing to occur. A playlist containing all three lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slta1... This lecture series is partly based on the book Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation of which, more here: https://www.wiley-vch.de/en?option=co... Andrew Moskowitz, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and current Professor of Psychology and Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Touro College, Berlin. His research has a specific focus on areas of violent and psychotic behaviour, particularly in their relation to trauma and dissociation.