The Trauma Model of Psychosis

Learning about Mental Health Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 401-416

  Hammersley, Paul ^a   Bullimore, Peter ^c   Fiddler, Magdalen ^a   Read, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c University of Auckland ^*

Author keywords

Childhood sexual abuse; Freudian psychoanalytic theory; Personal vulnerability factors and stressful life events; Trauma induced psychosis; Traumatic life events and psychosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350529712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470699300.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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