The document announces a bioethics seminar discussing a bold new approach to talk therapy for psychosis where therapists directly engage with patients' voices, in contrast to the traditional focus on pharmacotherapy alone. The seminar will be led by Kristen Steslow and Grant Gillett of the Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago on April 26, 2010 in the seminar room of Dunedin Public Hospital.
The document announces a bioethics seminar discussing a bold new approach to talk therapy for psychosis where therapists directly engage with patients' voices, in contrast to the traditional focus on pharmacotherapy alone. The seminar will be led by Kristen Steslow and Grant Gillett of the Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago on April 26, 2010 in the seminar room of Dunedin Public Hospital.
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The document announces a bioethics seminar discussing a bold new approach to talk therapy for psychosis where therapists directly engage with patients' voices, in contrast to the traditional focus on pharmacotherapy alone. The seminar will be led by Kristen Steslow and Grant Gillett of the Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago on April 26, 2010 in the seminar room of Dunedin Public Hospital.
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the revival of talk therapy for psychosis Talk therapy for neuroses has an enduring place in psychiatric practice but for psychoses the mode of treatment has shifted more towards pharmacotherapy. A bold new approach suggests that there is value in talking to the voices of schizophrenics and other psychotic patients. What, if anything, could this possibly achieve given that those voices seem to be merely the haphazard products of disordered brain function?
Kristen Steslow and Grant Gillett
Bioethics Centre Universty of Otago
Monday, 26 April 2010
1 pm
Seminar Room, 9th Floor
Dunedin Public Hospital Students and staff welcome