ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoses brings together a distinguished international set of contributors, offering a range of views and approaches, to explore the latest thinking in the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis and related disorders.
Drawing on findings from neuroscience, theory and clinical material from many schools of psychoanalytic thought, this book offers a comprehensive guide to understanding how psychosis is conceptualised from a psychoanalytic perspective. It looks at how to work with psychotic patients, typical problems in treating psychosis and the role of pharmacology. It demonstrates the relational dimension, capable of strengthening the patient’s observing Ego and facilitating the integration of the different areas of the personality. This process can identify and work through the main psychological stress factors involved in psychotic disturbances, transforming chaotic thoughts into springboards for important insights, and offering patients the precious chance to construct for the first time a creative relationship with their own existence.
Psychoanalysis of the Psychoses will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as psychiatrists wishing to draw upon psychoanalytic ideas in their work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |23 pages
Introduction to the psychoanalysis of psychoses
part I|79 pages
General perspectives on the psychoanalytic experience with psychosis
chapter 4|21 pages
Psychosis and body-mind dissociation
part II|80 pages
Communication and empathy with the psychotic analysand
part III|60 pages
Particularities of thought
part IV|35 pages
Flexible integration between psychoanalysis and pharmacology