Coming to Terms with Loss in Schizophrenia – the Search for Meaning

Muthert, Hanneke

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“…(Anthony, 1993, p. 15) Milders (2010) defines recovery as the overcoming of one's diagnosis, and a patient put it as follows: "I cannot be cured from my illness; I want to recover with my illness." It is interesting to note that Hanneke Muthert (2007Muthert ( , 2010, a Dutch theologian and spiritual caregiver, states that recovery can only be realized if the processes of rehabilitation and mourning can usefully be related to one another. Rehabilitation focuses on what is still possible for an individual.…”

Section: Loss Meaning Making and Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

Humanistic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: Listening to Patients as Persons in Search of Meaning. The Case of Schizophrenia

Eneman¹,

Vanhee²,

Liessens³

et al. 2016

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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Confronted with any kind of critical event, people tend to develop an urgent need for answers that provide a useful interpretation of what they experience as a painfully intruding disaster. This urge results from the often-unbearable suffering and the disruption of everyday life, routines, and relations. Moreover, dreams and aspirations one had for the future, the realization of which they perceived as important in leading a meaningful life, may be lost or have to be reconsidered. Accompanying feelings of disappointment, demoralization, or even desperation are often treated as symptoms of depression. This approach is called into question by the concept of demoralization, which points to the presence of healthy modes of functioning in a state of lucid awareness of one's condition. In this article, we focus on the case of schizophrenia, as we suppose that having to deal

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Section: Loss Meaning Making and Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%