Browsing Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders by Author "Sheaves, Bryony"
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Nightmares for Patients with Persecutory Delusions (Nites): An Assessor-Blind, Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Sheaves, Bryony; Waite, Felicity; Harrison, Paul J; Freeman, Daniel (2019-05)Objective:Nightmares are relatively common in patients experiencing psychosis but rarely assessed or treated. Nightmares may maintain persecutory delusions by portraying fears in sensory-rich detail. We tested the potential ... -
Excessive sleepiness in patients with psychosis: An initial investigation
Sheaves, Bryony; Freeman, Daniel (2021-01)Clinical experience indicates that excessive sleepiness and hypersomnia may be a common issue for patients with psychosis. Excessive sleepiness is typically ascribed to the sedating effects of antipsychotic medications but ... -
Preferred treatment outcomes in psychological therapy for voices: a comparison of staff and service-user perspectives
Sheaves, Bryony (2023-07)As access to psychological therapy for voice-hearing continues to increase, it is important to understand what treatment outcomes may be particularly valued by those who coordinate, administer, and engage with such ... -
Sleep Disorders in Early Psychosis: Incidence, Severity, and Association With Clinical Symptoms
Sheaves, Bryony; Freeman, Daniel (2018-09-08)Sleep disturbance is known to be associated with psychosis, but sleep disorders (eg. insomnia, nightmare disorder, sleep apnea) have rarely been investigated. We aimed to provide the first detailed assessment of sleep ... -
Sleep disturbance and psychiatric disorders
Freeman, Daniel; Sheaves, Bryony; Waite, Felicity; Harrison, Paul J (2020-07)Signs of mental ill health that cut across psychiatric diagnostic categories at high rates are typically viewed as non-specific occurrences, downgraded in importance and disregarded. However, problems not associated with ... -
Understanding, treating, and renaming grandiosedelusions: A qualitative study
Isham, Louise; Sheaves, Bryony; Freeman, Daniel (2019-11)Background.Grandiose delusions are arguably the most neglected psychotic experience in research. Objectives.We aimed to discover from patients: whether grandiose delusions have harmful consequences; the psychological ... -
Why do patients with psychosis listen to and believe derogatory and threatening voices? 2 21 reasons given by patients
Sheaves, Bryony; Johns, Louise; Isham, Louise; Freeman, Daniel (2020-05)Background: Around two thirds of patients with auditory hallucinations experience derogatory 37 and threatening voices (DTVs). Understandably, when these voices are believed then common 38 consequences can be depression, ...