ABSTRACT

Even in psychotherapy circles, psychosis was strictly the province of psychiatrists. Words that would inspire to question both the very concept of mental health and mental health problems and encourage me to look beyond the present widely accepted medical model of psychosis. For living with someone in psychosis means that they see the world outside as symbols of their inner worlds, as their own creation, including their fears and desires. All of us do the same when we dream. We believe in the reality of our dreams while we are having them, as unquestioningly as someone in a psychotic phase believes in their reality. Not only does someone in psychosis fully engage with their personal reality (author prefer to call it that rather than a delusion or hallucination), they have no insight into it as outside consensus reality. Psychosis simply does not allow us to remain in the world of logic and reason and consensus reality.