Basic Knowledge: Interaction with psychotic patients

By Thomas Bock

Subject:
Therapists and carers often feel unsure when, in line with their work, they encounter people suffering from psychosis. They receive worthwhile suggestions about how they can calmly master this humane and occupational challenge.

Target audience:
Newcomers and those long employed in psychiatry who want to adopt or maintain a positive disposition towards the work they do with the clients/patients.

Content:

Thomas Bock begins this book with an introduction into how a psychotic person thinks, feels, and acts. He describes the basic pattern of depression and mania and how the two elements interact with each other. Subsequently he deals with the genetic, mental, social, familial, and also spiritual aspects of the illness, all of which can play an important role during the treatment of psychosis.
He derives low-key psychiatric contact from the careful, understanding approach towards the sufferer. What’s important to him is the formation of the relationship during the first meeting and the attitude of the person giving the psychiatric treatment for psychosis.
The book takes away the fear of the often confused psychotic utterances of patients and imparts the necessary composure needed when dealing with these people.

Author:

Thomas Bock, Dr. habil., born 1954, is a psychologist and head of ambulant socio-psychiatry at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg.

Original title:

"Basiswissen: Umgang mit psychotischen Patienten"

Psychiatrie-Verlag, Bonn, 144 Pages, 14.90 EUR.
First published 2005

For further information please contact: Ms Kerstin Zander.

The book series “Basic Knowledge” imparts the essential basics of the chosen subject area not only for newcomers but also for experienced therapists and carers working in psychiatry. It is also important to develop a sympathetic attitude towards people with mental disorders. In addition, the books in this series always have the welfare of the people tending the patient in mind to help enhance the satisfaction of their occupation.
The booklets mostly have 144 pages with helpful information on the inside cover. Because of their highly visible recognition factor and the closeness and competence with which they deal with each subject, the series, which now runs to 12 volumes, has achieved the status of a “home library” in German speaking countries.