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ForwardIntegrating Loss and Processing Grief in Psychotherapy of Psychosis with Jeremy Ridenour, PsyD, ABPP
While recovery from psychosis is possible, recovery is a multidimensional construct driven by various factors. One relevant factor to recovery from psychosis that has often been overlooked in the psychotherapy literature is the importance of facing loss and processing grief in relation to psychosis. Persons who have experienced psychosis often experience the loss of role functioning, interpersonal relationships, cognition, and self-concept. However, when these losses are not fully integrated into the person’s identity, it can result in either more losses due to denial and metacognitive impairments or increased hopelessness and depression due to internalized stigma. Five elements in psychotherapy of psychosis were identified that can facilitate the integration of loss and processing of grief: understand the personal experience of the psychotic episode, attend to feelings of grief and the primary loss, explore the meaning of psychotic symptoms and identity implications, integrate psychotic vulnerabilities into the sense of self, and foster realistic hope in the face of an uncertain future. Psychotherapy can enable persons with psychosis to make meaning of their losses, process their grief, integrate their psychotic vulnerability into their sense of self, and develop realistic hope.
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Learning Objectives
1. Identify four types of losses that are common following a psychotic episode.
2. Define different reactions/recovery styles people can have following a psychotic episode.
3. Analyze therapeutic processes that can be useful to integrate loss and process grief.
Dr. Jeremy Ridenour, PsyD, ABPP is a psychologist and psychoanalyst who works at the Austen Riggs Center and serves as the director of psychological testing and associate director of admissions. His research interests include personality assessment and the psychotherapeutic treatment of individuals who experience psychosis.
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