Recovery
R. D. Laing pointed repeatedly to 'the possibility that what we call psychosis may be sometimes a natural process of healing (a view for which I claim no priority)', he sometimes added. Under the title "A Ten Day Voyage", he published an acquaintance's first-hand account of a reactive psychosis, triggered by a festering dog-bite. The protagonist reported
'"living in a - in another time dimension added to the time situation in which I am now"', as well as '"an awareness of - um - of another sphere, another layer of existence lying above...the present"'. At the close of the experience, the patient '"thought, well, somewhere or other I've got to sort of join up with my present - er - self, very strongly. So I...kept on saying my own name over and over again and all of a sudden, just like that - I suddenly realized that it was all over"'.
Psychologist Erik H. Erikson considered that 'no matter what conditions may have caused a psychotic break, the bizarreness and withdrawal...hides an attempt to recover social mutuality by a testing of the borderlines between senses and physical reality, between words and social meanings'.
Read more about this topic: Brief Reactive Psychosis
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