Australian Institute for Humane Responses to Hearing Voices, Psychosis and Suicide
Approach
Humane Clinic offers a unique approach to psychotherapy in Australia. Psychotherapists at Humane Clinic have training rooted in psychodynamic and existential concepts.
Psychotherapy at Humane Clinic focusses on the social and environmental context of a person's life and utilises the psychotherapy relationship to explore what is a good life int he context of the person's life and world.
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Humane Clinic therapists do not use strategies and interventions that seek to correct the person, but rather seek to consider how a person can make use of the therapy relationship to consider alternative of new opportunities to influence and impact their life in a way that allows them to develop a sense of meaning and purpose towards an experience of increases responsibility and freedom in living.
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Humane Clinic therapists may make use of the following concepts to work with individuals and groups.
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Hearing Voices is a common human experience. People experience a range of different voice hearing realities, some of which can be difficult, overwhelming or distressing. Others find they live well with voices and find meaning and take important life messages form what the voices say, who or what they represent and how they can help a person to make sense of their lives.
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Dissociachotic theory is an explanatory framework for the emergence and evaporation of altered states (hearing voices / psychosis / suicide).
Dissociachotic can be understood as the experience of animation and giving life to being at variance of companionship to self, in order for the survival of self in relationship to interpersonal threat from another. Dissociachotic provides a framework to respond to any state of distress.
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The Power Threat Meaning Framework is a new perspective on why people sometimes experience a whole range of forms of distress, confusion, fear, despair, and troubled or troubling behaviour. It is an alternative to the more traditional models based on psychiatric diagnosis.
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The Just Listening Community is a psychotherapeutically informed alternative to
other mental health services for people experiencing
emotional or mental distress, in whatever way that distress may be expressed. Just Listening seeks to
offer justice to a person’s story and experience of living through the process of listening with the
intention of meaningful human to human connection.