Back to Life, Back to Normality: Volume 1

Douglas Turkington is Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry at Newcastle University. David Kingdon is Professor of Mental Health Care Delivery at the University of Southampton. Shayana Rathod is a Consultant Psychiatrist working for the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Service and is also Associate Medical Director of the Mid Hampshire and Eastleigh Locality of the Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust. Sarah K. J. Wilcock is a senior practitioner with the Assertive Outreach Team of Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust based in Redcar, Cleveland. Alison Brabban is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust. Paul Cromarty is Principal Lecturer at the University of Cumbria, and is also an Honorary Clinical Specialist at Newcastle Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies Centre. Robert Dudley is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the South of Tyne Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, Northumberland Tyne and Wear Mental Health NHS Trust, and Research Tutor, Doctorate of Clinical Psychology, at Newcastle University. Richard Gray is Professor of Research Related to Nursing and Deputy Associate Dean for Research at the Faculty of Health, University of East Anglia.

Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the authors; Introduction Douglas Turkington and Peter Weiden; 1. Where do I begin? Jeremy Pelton; 2. What is normal? David Kingdon; 3. Understanding paranoia and unusual beliefs Paul Cromarty and Robert Dudley; 4. Voices Douglas Turkington; 5. Overcoming negative symptoms Ron Siddle; 6. Tablets and injections Richard Gray; 7. Why me? Why now? Understanding vulnerability from a cognitive perspective Alison Brabban; 8. Helping carers help themselves using a cognitive approach Sarah K. J. Wilcock; 9. Staying well and managing set backs Shanaya Rathod.