Psychology without compassion leaves an emptiness

摘要

I've had days when I've been quite psychotic. I struggle to work out which bits of my experience have actually happened. Everything feels dreamlike, and the dreams seem real. I try to implement my crisis relapse prevention plan: check out the evidence, 'reality test'. I'm determined to hang on to my working life. I have two jobs: both involve working alongside psychologists as a coordinator of service-user and carer involvement, in the research department of a mental health trust and on the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology at the Salomons Centre, Canterbury Christ Church University.