How Social Difficulties Produce Cognitive Problems During The Mediation Of Psychosis: A Qualitative Study

Peter K. Chadwick
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Peter K. Chadwick: Psychology Division, Birkbeck College Faculty of Continuing Education, School of Social and Natural Sciences, University of London, 26 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 5DQ, UK, pkc4@tutor.open.ac.uk

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2006, vol. 52, issue 5, 459-468

Abstract: Background : The study examines effects of social difficulties such as invalidating and stressful relationships and lack of social support on cognitive processes in psychosis. Methods : Biographical and ethnographic methods deriving insights from personal experience of psychosis; interactions with patients in hospital and hostel care and from group work. Conclusions : Social stresses can damage the self, resulting in disarray to executive control, serial ordering, organizational and retrieval processes. Negative social experiences also skew probability judgements of the likelihood of threat/ betrayal which may be confirmed by coincidences – resulting in the adoption of a risky decisional style. This maximizes perceptions confirming of a delusional belief.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764006066827

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