Psychoanalysis of the Psychoses

Current Developments in Theory and Practice
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-13824-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Reihe: The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lombardi, Riccardo

Rinaldi, Luigi

Thanopulos, Sarantis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series editor's foreword, Gabriela Legorreta; Introduction to the psychoanalysis of psychoses: current developments in theory and practice, Riccardo Lombardi, Luigi Rinaldi and Sarantis Thanopulos; PART I: General perspectives on the psychoanalytic experience with psychosis; 1 Child psychosis: an impairment in the work of representation, Didier Houzel; 2 Chestnut Lodge and the psychoanalytic approach to psychosis, John Kafka; 3 A personal path to analytic therapy for psychosis, Franco De Masi; 4 Psychosis and body-mind dissociation: a personal perspective on the psychoanalysis of acute crises and of schizophrenia, Riccardo Lombardi; PART II: Communication and empathy with the psychotic analysand; 5 Aspects of the clinical work with psychotic patients, Mark J. Blechner; 6 Psychoanalytic therapy of a chronic paranoid schizophrenic woman, Michael Robbins; 7 The psychoanalyst and psychosis: the bull in a China shop, Stefano Calamandrei; 8 Pain in search of psychical shelter, Sarantis Thanopulos; PART III: Particularities of thought; 9 The reversal of thinking: Bion’s theory of psychosis, Giuseppe Civitarese; 10 Dream, psychosis, and separation anxieties, Luigi Rinaldi; 11 Note on psychotic activity in pathological organizations, Paul Williams; PART IV: Flexible integration between psychoanalysis and pharmacology; 12 The current state of psychodynamic treatment of psychosis, Ira Steinman; 13. Psychoanalysis and prescription drugs in the treatment of psychotic disorders, Giuseppe Martini

Über Autor(innen)

Riccardo Lombardi, MD, is a Psychoanalyst and Psychiatrist. He maintains a full-time private practice in Rome, Italy, and teaches at the Roman Psychoanalytic Institute of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). He is also a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society.

Luigi Rinaldi is a Psychiatrist and Training Analyst, and Member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and IPA. He has been Head Psychiatrist and has taught in the University schools of specialization in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology in Naples, Italy.

Sarantis Thanopulos is a Psychiatrist and Supervising and Training Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and IPA, based in Naples, Italy.