Talk One
Basics of Psychotic Thinking and Feeling
How the rational core of the person misinterprets hallucinations as actual reality and builds a complex delusional framework.
Topics include: Person has rational core within the hallucinatory reality, or waking dream, experienced during psychosis. Hallucinatory reality creates new ways of thinking. Patterns of psychotic thinking and feeling include: Loss of object permanency replaced by flow of realities; Synchronicity becomes basis for understanding mystical connections; Belief in mystical/religious symbol systems and pursuit of discovering a symbolic code underlying all of humanity; Synchronicity appears to create potential for magical solutions; Visions of probable futures and confusion; Voices and dialogues; Double-binds in actual personal reality; Poetic expression of reality; Hallucinations and false perceptions; The Unbearable Dilemma and the quest for the Deity/Extraordinary Being(s); Stepwise building of delusional framework; Being an emotional sponge.