I am a DPhil student at the department for Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. Next to the DPhil, I am also a practicing psychologist and being trained as an existential-psychoanalyst (UKCP), however, I will only be acting in the capacity of a DPhil student during this study. The project aims to develop a better understanding of psychosis, moving away from stigmatization and (potentially) towards new ways of treating it, or integrating it better into our social worlds.
In my DPhil, I am interested in the very subtle alterations of perception and self-consciousness in psychosis. These aren’t hallucinations, which are the more classic symptoms that usual come to mind, but tiny changes in contact to reality and the outside world. To examine these changes, I have designed four perceptual experiments, which are almost like games to play on a computer. There is no correct or incorrect response – it all unfolds around if and how perception can slightly change.
I am currently in the process of finalizing the NHS ethics application and need two people with lived experience to review my study.
This will entail meeting with me for one to two hours during which I will walk you through a presentation of the four experiments and would love some input, feedback and thoughts from people that live with psychosis or have had it in the past. The meeting could be in person or online.
I am looking for people with psychosis/schizophrenia, either:
– one episode of psychosis (in the past, including first episode psychosis)
– diagnosis of schizophrenia
Reimbursement
£20 per hour
Date required
Deadline for responses: 15 May 2024.
Organisation
University of Oxford,
Department for Experimental Psychology
Contact
Marianne Broeker: marianne.broeker@psy.ox.ac.uk
Or contact me on: 07926550643