ABSTRACT
Herbert Rosenfeld makes a powerful case both for the intelligibility of psychotic symptoms and the potential benefits of their treatment by psychoanalytic means.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |27 pages
Introduction
chapter |25 pages
A psychoanalytic approach to the treatment of psychosis
part |32 pages
The analyst's contribution to successful and unsuccessful treatment
chapter |16 pages
Breakdown of communication between patient and analyst
part |93 pages
The influence of narcissism on the analyst's task
chapter |20 pages
Narcissistic patients with negative therapeutic reactions
chapter |28 pages
Destructive narcissism and the death instinct
chapter |21 pages
The problem of impasse in psychoanalytic treatment
part |107 pages
The influence of projective identification on the analyst's task
chapter |33 pages
Projective identification in clinical practice
chapter |12 pages
Further difficulties in containing projective identification
part |17 pages
Conclusion
