Living Well with Psychosis Practical Strategies for Improving Your Daily Life

by Brinen, Aaron P.

• ISBN13: 9781462557974
• ISBN10: 146255797X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-07-07
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

For people with psychosis, recovery is a winding path, not a straight line. And the best person to steer your recovery is you. Leading psychologist Aaron P. Brinen busts myths and helps you build the life you want in this empowering book. Dr. Brinen provides step-by-step guidance for becoming a strong self-advocate, navigating treatment options, managing symptoms that cause distress, and coping with stigma. Learn crucial ways to connect with others, pursue your goals at school or work, and keep your body healthy. The brief chapters are warm and compassionate, with downloadable practical tools designed to boost your energy and motivation for getting out into the world. This is a book you can read cover to cover--or dip into any time you need extra support to live well and feel good.

Author Biography

Aaron P. Brinen, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice, where he employs evidence-based treatments to help people recover from serious mental health conditions. He is also Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashille, Tennessee. Dr. Brinen is a codeveloper of recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R), and has been active in adapting CT-R for different settings and training therapists from around the world. 

Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Preparing to Live Well Again: Orienting the Captain
1. The Lay of the Land: Treatment
2. The Shadow Obstacles
3. Medications
4. Families
II. Specific Obstacles to Living Well: The Usual Suspects
5. Motivation
6. Connection
7. Distressing Voices and Visions
8. Threat Beliefs about Others
9. Beliefs of Exceptionality
10. Anger
11. Communication Disturbance
12. When the Past Haunts You
13. When Hopelessness Preys
III. Living Life
14. Friends and Lovers
15. Work and School
16. Your Temple, the Body
17. Living Your Best Life
Resources
Index