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WEBINAR DESCRIPTION
Contemporary psychological/psychiatric practices typically view negative symptoms as fixed, individual, ‘deficits’ with biological underpinnings. This conceptualization is problematic in that it neglects the importance of social, political, and structural influences/determinants of “negative symptoms”.
Although a great deal of alternative and meaning-oriented work has addressed so-called “positive symptoms” such as voices, visions and extreme beliefs, scant attention has been paid to “negative symptoms”, such as alogia, social withdrawal, and anhedonia. We seek to fill this gap through exploring alternative, meaning-centered, and lived experience perspectives on “negative symptoms”. We argue that traditional frameworks pathologize so-called ‘negative symptoms’, and in turn create harmful narratives that leave people stuck. Instead, we argue that so-called “negative symptoms” have generative potential and urge a paradigmatic shift towards approaches that center the voices of people with lived experience and integrate socio-political context.
Included in this talk will be a review of our project Rethink Negative Symptoms, which collected direct first-person narratives of experiences that have been labelled "negative symptoms," lived experience perspectives on associated language, terminology and alternatives, and critiques/concerns of the construct.
About the presenter(s)
Marie Brown, PhD
Marie Brown is a clinical psychologist in New York City. She is the President of the US Chapter of the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS-US) and a co-founder of Hearing Voices Network NYC. She is co-editor of Women & Psychosis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (with Marilyn Charles) and Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Dimensions (with Robin Brown).
Nev Jones, PhD
Nev Jones, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and affiliate faculty in psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Grounded in direct experience of psychosis, her scholarship and clinical training work have sought to challenge conventional over-simplifications of experiences falling under the psychosis umbrella, bridge the perspectives of clinicians, family members and service users and promote meaning-centered, structurally responsive interventions. She has over a hundred academic publications, and leads or has led numerous large-scale research projects focused on public sector mental health services.