Main description:

Emphasises clinical conversation as the only adequate instrument to clinically investigate these experiences in each individual.
The "subjectivity model" and its implications for treatment are comprehensively outlined in an accessible way, aimed towards a broad audience of mental health professionals, as well as to people with lived experience and relatives.
presents a broad review of different treatment approaches and settings, in which work with disturbed self-experience could be integrated; like individual psychotherapy, in-patient milieu therapy, supportive treatments, psychoeducational family work, local networking, and medication.

Contents:

A Central Conversation Use of the term schizophrenia 1. An initial aerial view of the field, then heading for the inside 2. To understand is a universal human need 3. The prodromal phenomena illuminate the core of existence- aiding the understanding of psychosis 4. The problem of defining the prodromal phase 5. The view of science determines the view of psychosis 6. Subjectivity 7. The self and basic self-disturbance 8. Diagnostics, phenomenology and the EASE manual in the field of psychosis risk 9. The five domains of the EASE manual 10. The view of psychosis treatment among professionals and health authorities is changing 11. What about other models of understanding and theraputic approaches to psychosis? Do they use subjectivity, self-experience or self-understanding as explicit concepts? 12. Self-disturbance as part of a wider treatment context 13. Conversation and phenomenology 14. Theraputic effects and obstacles 15. Approaches and settings in treatment directed as basic self-disturbances 16. Outline of a pragmatic seven-step treatment module 17. Implementing the subjectivity model