Boevnik article

Question 1

What type of text is the Boevnik article?

Answer 1

Critical towards professionals that don’t discuss the reasons behind people’s psychoses (like trauma)

Question 2

Main goal of the article?

Answer 2

To illustrate that psychosis could be an understandable response to trauma
That her story is similar to that of many others, yet the association between trauma and psychosis is hardly recognized
Wants to encourage people to do something about childhood trauma

Question 3

What does Boevnik argue for?

Answer 3

• talking about psychosis: trying to get to the bottom of it, to find possible trauma behind it
• not to view psychosis as a disorder, but as a way of life
• to see psychoses as a part of integrated psychopathology, a way of reacting to life history (for example childhood trauma)
• effective to discover the association between psychosis and life history: diminishes self-trust, because it makes the psychotic experiences understandable
• professional caregivers should make the association visible in order to help you get control of your life
• psychosis is an understandable response to trauma (evidence that childhood trauma is associated with psychotic experiences)

Question 4

Main observation or objection