ABSTRACT

This book focuses on the study and treatment of patients with psychotic illnesses. It draws on Kleinian concepts and Scandinavian clinical experience to show how a psychotherapeutic approach can, through a combination of empathy and sound theory, stabilise, contain, integrate and tame the psychosis.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter Three|21 pages

Obsessions in schizophrenia: "Alec"

chapter Five|19 pages

Hysterical psychosis: "Claudia"

chapter Nine|12 pages

Paranoid violence: "Duncan"

chapter Thirteen|11 pages

Phobia, hysteria, psychosis: "Grace"

chapter Fifteen|20 pages

Manic-depressive psychosis: "Harry"

chapter Sixteen|18 pages

Vignettes

chapter Seventeen|21 pages

Mostly theory

chapter Eighteen|9 pages

Mostly practice

chapter Nineteen|10 pages

Conclusions