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ACCEPTING ALTERNATIVE REALITIES
rufusmay.com/2010/10/23/new-paper-i-have-written-on-unusual-beliefs/
Reflecting on my own experience of alternative realities as well as my experience as a psychologist helping others, I will consider how we best assist people experiencing other worlds of reality we find hard to relate to. I will first consider the philosophy of assisting people with unusual beliefs and ways of incorporating self help approaches into daily living to promote healing. This will be followed by looking at:
1) How to help people live more freely with their unusual beliefs.
2) The importance of increasing social connectedness and creating safety.
3) Reducing anxiety related to unusual beliefs.
4) Understanding the social and emotional meanings that the unusual beliefs represent. In the examples I will discuss the ways psychotherapeutic work can be helpful in understanding and addressing unusual beliefs.
The two most common ‘symptom types’ in psychosis are firstly ‘auditory hallucinations’ and secondly ‘delusions’. Over the last twenty years the Hearing Voices Movement has helped challenge conventional approaches to “auditory hallucinations” by reframing them as “voice-hearing experiences”. The Hearing Voices Movement has demonstrated the broad range of ways to integrate voice hearing into one’s life. Due to this there has been great progress in developing research on the experience of voice hearing and self-help networks. This has lead to innovations in both psychotherapeutic and self help knowledge for voice hearing (see Romme et al. 2009).
rufusmay.com/2010/10/23/new-paper-i-have-written-on-unusual-beliefs/
Reflecting on my own experience of alternative realities as well as my experience as a psychologist helping others, I will consider how we best assist people experiencing other worlds of reality we find hard to relate to. I will first consider the philosophy of assisting people with unusual beliefs and ways of incorporating self help approaches into daily living to promote healing. This will be followed by looking at:
1) How to help people live more freely with their unusual beliefs.
2) The importance of increasing social connectedness and creating safety.
3) Reducing anxiety related to unusual beliefs.
4) Understanding the social and emotional meanings that the unusual beliefs represent. In the examples I will discuss the ways psychotherapeutic work can be helpful in understanding and addressing unusual beliefs.
The two most common ‘symptom types’ in psychosis are firstly ‘auditory hallucinations’ and secondly ‘delusions’. Over the last twenty years the Hearing Voices Movement has helped challenge conventional approaches to “auditory hallucinations” by reframing them as “voice-hearing experiences”. The Hearing Voices Movement has demonstrated the broad range of ways to integrate voice hearing into one’s life. Due to this there has been great progress in developing research on the experience of voice hearing and self-help networks. This has lead to innovations in both psychotherapeutic and self help knowledge for voice hearing (see Romme et al. 2009).