ABSTRACT
Surely psychosis encompasses all the existential fears. It is the death of our personality, that consistent pattern of a recognizable self, it isolates us from others, it means we cannot make rational meaning out of our thoughts, it condemns us to a place where we lose the capacity to make choices in our own best interests. Inevitably, treatment plans for any kind of illness, albeit physical or so-called mental, are inherently linked to knowing the aetiology of the illness. Psychosis is generally believed to have accompanied mankind through its history, yet no agreed cause has been universally acknowledged. The fact is that, as a result of the improvement to countless patients and the end of long-term incarceration for the mentally ill, antipsychotic medications now rule conventional psychiatric treatment of psychosis. The pathology of psychosis now appeared to lie in the realms of interpersonal relationships within the immediate family of origin.
