Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran's Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression.
Culture, medicine and psychiatry December 1, 2023 Ippolytos Kalofonos 1 citation
Attending to the meaning within psychosis, grounded in a person's subjective-lived experience and social world, is essential for developing empathy and therapeutic rapport. A Latina Veteran's narratives of psychosis must be contextualized in her past and ongoing experiences of racism, social hierarchy, and violence. Engaging with her narratives in this way pushes towards a social etiology that conceptualizes psychosis as a complex response to life experience, and in her case, a critical embodiment of intersectional oppression.