Overview

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.

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Author:   Murray Jackson ,  James S. Grotstein ,  Paul Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.884kg
ISBN:  

9780367329648

ISBN 10:   0367329646
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   05 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Psychotic features in obsessive-compulsive neurosis: ""Ada"" -- Obsessional symptoms following adolescent psychosis: ""Brenda"" -- Obsessions in schizophrenia: ""Alec"" -- Paranoid schizophrenia—command hallucinations: ""Brian"" -- Hysterical psychosis: ""Claudia"" -- Anorexia, psychosis, and the question of sexual abuse: ""Dorothy"" -- Paranoid schizophrenia—space—time factors: ""Conrad"" -- Chronic paranoid schizophrenia—schizoid thinking: ""Ellen"" -- Paranoid violence: ""Duncan"" -- Schizophrenia—psychotherapy, termination, reparation: ""Florence"" -- Paranoid psychosis—delusional body image: ""Elmer"" -- Paranoid delusions—sealing-over and working through a psychotic transference: ""Frank"" -- Phobia, hysteria, psychosis: ""Grace"" -- Chronic schizophrenia—catatonic and spatial features: ""George"" -- Manic-depressive psychosis: ""Harry"" -- Vignettes -- Mostly theory -- Mostly practice -- Conclusions -- Characteristics of schizoid thinking -- Infancy research and the “right mind” -- The future—winds of change"

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