ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the psychological treatment of a young woman with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who had experienced just one episode of psychosis. The cognitive model of panic disorder will be used as a template to consider this young woman's psychotic experiences, in some ways developing the analogy between auditory hallucinations and panic disorder recently advanced Schema-level interventions. The cognitive model of panic suggests that the main psychological process that underlies panic disorder is the misinterpretation of the normal physiological signs asociated with anxiety in a catastrophic way. A professional consensus has emerged in recent years with regard to an explanatory model of schizophrenia. The medical staff treating June's illness had diagnosed her as suffering from schizophrenia. Prior to commencing therapy June was assessed with the positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) to establish a baseline of her positive and negative symptoms and general psychopathology.
