If we return over a century to Bleuler’s 4 “A’s” of schizophrenia (ambivalence, autism, affective incongruity, and affiliation disturbances) (Bleuler, 1911) it’s not exhausting to see a spot for dissociation. Nonetheless, with extra fashionable definitions (e.g. ICD-11) dissociation doesn’t function as a symptom, with the emphasis now being firmly upon constructive and damaging signs. There’s…
The connection between migration and psychosis danger is nicely established. A meta-analysis by Selten et al., (2020) discovered that migrants are twice as prone to expertise psychosis. Different Psychological Elf blogs have highlighted how migrants are each extra weak to psychosis and extra prone to obtain inpatient care than their non-migrant counterparts (Chilman, 2021; Dengu,…
Many Psychological Elves have blogged about hashish and psychosis prior to now. For instance, we all know that hashish use in adolescence is related to an elevated threat of psychosis diagnoses in maturity in a dose-response method (Richardson, 2018). We additionally know that the extra frequent use and better efficiency of hashish are related to…
Racial and ethnic disparities in psychological well being stay a contentious subject of political initiatives, researchers, theorists and activists. There have been many initiatives by successive governments in the UK, to enhance race equality in psychological well being. These embrace Delivering Race Equality in Psychological Well being (Division of Well being 2005) (hereinafter, “DRE“), and…