Overview

Beyond Medication focuses on the creation and evolution of the therapeutic relationship as the agent of change in the recovery from psychosis. Organized from the clinician's point of view, this practical guidebook moves directly into the heart of the therapeutic process with a sequence of chapters that outline the progressive steps of engagement necessary to recovery. Both the editors and contributors challenge the established medical model by placing the therapeutic relationship at the centre of the treatment process, thus supplanting medication as the single most important element in recovery. Divided into three parts, topics of focus include: Strengthening the patient The mechanism of therapeutic change Sustaining the therapeutic approach. This book will be essential reading for all mental health professionals working with psychosis including psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.

Full Product Details

Author:   David Garfield (Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, USA) ,  Daniel Mackler (in private practice, New York, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   v. 10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.750kg
ISBN:  

9780415463874

ISBN 10:   0415463874
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   17 December 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Karon, Silver, Foreword. Part I: Engaging the Patient. Garfield, Dorman, Strengthening the Patient. Faulconer, Silver, The Initial Engagement in the Psychotherapy of Psychosis, With and Without an Asylum. Prouty, Making Contact with the Chronically Regressed Patient. Schwartz, Summers, The Role of the Therapeutic Alliance in the Treatment of Seriously Disturbed Individuals. Part II: The Elements of Change. Summers, Sustaining Relationships: Cure, Care, and Recovery. Kipp, Sustaining Relationships in Milieu Treatment: A Corollary to Summers. Koehler, The Process of Therapeutic Change: Trauma, Dissociation, and Therapeutic Symbiosis. Gibbs, Technical Challenges in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychotic Depression. Mackler, Practicing the ""Impossible Profession"" in Impossible Places. Part III: Listening to the Patient: Stories of What Really Works. Penney, Leaving Schizophrenia: The Returning Home of the Awakened Mind. Greenberg, Life in the Mines: A Retrospective on My Therapy. Foltz, The Experience of Being Medicated in Schizophrenia: A Subjective Inquiry and Implications for Psychotherapy. Part IV: Concluding Chapter. Steinman, Sustaining the Therapeutic Approach: Therapists May Need Help Too!"

Reviews

This superbly executed work is as courageous as it is timely. At last psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy is being recommended and justified for the treatment of psychotic patients - over and above - and often instead of- psychopharmacology! This work is recommended for all mental health workers but particularly for psychiatric residents and psychologists in training. - James Grotstein M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California and The New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, USA

This superbly executed work is as courageous as it is timely. At last psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy is being recommended and justified for the treatment of psychotic patients - over and above - and often instead of- psychopharmacology! This work is recommended for all mental health workers but particularly for psychiatric residents and psychologists in training. - James Grotstein M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California and The New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles.

Author Information

David Garfield is Professor, Associate Chair and Director of Residency Training in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School. He is also faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago. Daniel Mackler is a psychotherapist in private practice and a filmmaker, New York City.

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