Improving treatments for psychotic disorders: beyond cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis

ABSTRACT

More effective treatments for people with psychotic disorders are urgently required. Here, we make three suggestions for progress: 1. Targeting the disorders’ core phenomenological features (‘phenomenological phenotype’), 2. Addressing social disconnection, isolation and loneliness, and 3. Leveraging ‘hot’ cognitions and using symptom capture approaches that combine psychotherapy with advances in technology and neuroscience.

KEYWORDS:

• psychosis
• CBT
• treatment
• phenomenology
• neurofeedback

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1. Ecological Momentary Interventions (EMI) delivered by mobile-based interventions can also be used to capture symptoms and cognitions in daily life, providing a promising approach to enhance the effect of traditional CBT in psychosis treatment (Reininghaus et al., 2016).