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title: "Psych News Alert: NAMI Survey Examines Patient, Family Perceptions of Early Psychosis"
description: Individuals who experience a first psychosis and their family members differ dramatically in perceptions about who first recognized that the...
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 6/24/24 11:16 AM

# NAMI Survey Examines Patient, Family Perceptions of Early Psychosis

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Individuals who experience a first psychosis and their family members differ dramatically in perceptions about who first recognized that there were signs of mental illness, according to a survey of patients and families by the National Alliance on  Mental Illness (NAMI). The finding was among the most striking from the survey titled “First Episode Psychosis: Results From a 2011 NAMI Survey.” 

For extensive coverage of issues concerning assessment and interventions for first-episode psychosis, see *Psychiatric News* at [http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/43/18/20.1.full](http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/43/18/20.1.full). More information on diagnosis and treatment of psychosis can be found in the book “Essentials of Schizophrenia,” issued by American Psychiatric Publishing. Information on this new book is posted at [www.appi.org/SearchCenter/Pages/SearchDetail.aspx?ItemId=62401](http://www.appi.org/SearchCenter/Pages/SearchDetail.aspx?ItemId=62401).   
  

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