Psychosis

Understanding and Treatment

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1995
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-85302-265-4 (ISBN)

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Bringing together a number of pioneering thinkers and workers ni the field of psychosis, this book provides an interrogation of 'official theories' surrounding schizophrenia and examines the range of ways in which psychosis can be thought about and worked with.

The first part of the book, which deals with the meaning of psychosis, presents papers on the development of psychosis from historical, social, theoretical and emotional perspectives. It explains current psychoanalytical ideas of the meaning of psychosis and looks at the ways in which psychoanalytic theorists have found meaning in the commuications of psychotic patients.

The more clinically oriented papters in the second part of the book focus on the treatment of psychosis. These describe ongoing work in therpeutic settings with people diagnosed as being schizophrenic, as well as the effects on staff working with psychotic patients.

This is an encouraging and stimulating book for students and professionals int he field of psychosis, who often feel isolated in their efforts to understand their patients.

Jane Ellwood is a psychotherapist at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and at Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy (ICAP).

Part 1. Understanding. 1. Learning to Think About Schizoid Thinking, Murray Jackson. 2. Manfred Bleuler and the Understanding of Psychosis, Peter Barham. 3. The Ubiquity of Psychotic Anxieties, Robert M. Young. 4. Schizophrenia: A Constructive Analogy or a Convenient Construct? Richard Marshall. 5. Knowledge and its Pretenders: Bion's Contribution to Knowledge and Thought, D. L. Bell. 6. Murderousness in Relationship to Psychotic Breakdown (Madness), Arthur Hyatt Williams. 7. Psychosis: The Sacrifice that Fails? E. M. Armstrong-Perlman. Part 2. Treatment. 8. Working with Psychotic Processes in Art Therapy, Katherine Killick. 9. Psychotic Interventions in the Arbours Crisis Centre, Joseph H. Berke. 10. Breaking and Entering in Phantasy and Fact, Christopher Cordess. 11. The Return from Mindlessness, Kenneth Sanders. 12. Individual Psychoanalytical Psychotherarpy with Severly and Profoundly Handicapped Patients, Valerie Sinason. 13. The Management of Projective Identification in the Treatment of a Borderline Psychotic Patient, M. Fakhry Davids. List of Contributors. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.1995
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychosen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-85302-265-9 / 1853022659
ISBN-13	978-1-85302-265-4 / 9781853022654
Zustand	Neuware