Hallucinations A Practical Guide to Treatment and Management

by Laroi, Frank; Aleman, Andre

• ISBN13: 9780199548590
• ISBN10: 0199548595
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Univ. of Liege, Belgium. Offers a guide to assessment, evaluation and treatment of hallucinations. Covers a range of intervention, including pharmacological, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), normalizing techniques, and appraisal-based cognitive therapy. For practitioners.

Author Biography

Frank Laroi obtained his BSc from the University of Bath, England; his degree in clinical psychology from the University of Oslo, Norway; and his PhD from the University of Liege, Belgium. In addition to hallucinations, his research interests include schizophrenia, delusions, cognitive remediation, awareness of illness, and emotional processing in psychopathology. Andre Aleman is professor of cognitive neuropsychiatry at the University of Groningen. He obtained his MSc and PhD in neuropsychology from the University of Utrecht. In addition to hallucinations, his research interests include the cognitive and neural bases of emotional processing in psychopathology.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Frank Laroi, Andre Aleman
2. Pharmacological treatment of hallucinations, Julio Sanjuan, Eduardo J. Aguilar, Francesc Artigas
3. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Andre Aleman, Ralph Hoffman
4. Individual Cognitive Behavioural Therapy of auditory-verbal hallucinations, Ben Smith, Brendan O'Sullivan, Phillip Watson, Juliana Onwumere, Paul Bebbington, Philippa Garety, Daniel Freeman, David Fowler, Elizabeth Kuipers
5. Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis, Louise Johns, Til Wykes
6. Appraisals: Voices' power and purpose, Peter Trower, Max Birchwood, Alan Meaden
7. Cognitive therapy for command hallucinations, Alan Meaden, Max Birchwood, Peter Trower
8. 1. Attention Training Technique and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Distressing Auditory Hallucinations. Two case examples, Lucia R. Valmaggia, Eric Morris
9. Competitive Memory Training, Mark van der Gaag, Kees Korrelboom
10. Hallucinations focused Integrative Therapy (HIT), Jack A. Jenner
11. 'Normalizing' the voice hearing experience: The continuum between auditory hallucinations and ordinary mental life, Michael Garrett
12. Coping strategies, John Farhall
13. Personal history and hearing voices, Marius Romme, Sandra Escher
14. Self-help approaches to hearing voices, Rufus May, Eleanor Longden
15. Hallucinations in children and adolescents: Diagnosis and treatment strategies, Jean-Louis Goeb, Renaud Jardri
16. Visual hallucinations in Charles Bonnet syndrome, Frank Eperjesi
17. Hallucinations in the context of dementing illnesses, Urs Peter Mosimann, Daniel Collerton
18. Parkinson's disease, Gilles Fenelon
19. Assessment of hallucinations, Vaughan Bell, Andrea Raballo, Frank Laroi