Ordinary Psychosis and The Body [electronic resource] : A Contemporary Lacanian Approach /
Redmond, J.author.
Lacan, Jacques,1901-1981.
Current Lacanian ideas on psychosis have much to contribute to the complex and often surprising forms of psychotic symptomatology encountered in clinical practice. By focussing on the unique experience of individuals with psychosis, this book examines the centrality of body phenomena to both the onset and stabilisation of psychosis.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Mild Psychosis, the Body and Ordinary Psychosis; 1.1 The decline of mild psychosis in contemporary psychiatry; 1.2 The marginal status of body disturbances in mild psychosis; 1.3 A return to mild psychosis: The neurosis/psychosis distinction and ordinary psychosis; 1.4 Ordinary psychosis and the body; 1.5 Conclusion; 2 Case Studies on Ordinary Psychosis and the Body; 2.1 The treatment of psychosis and the construction of a symptom; 2.2 Onset, triggering events and body disturbances in ordinary psychosis
2.3 Clinical vignettes: Ordinary psychosis and the problem of embodiment2.4 Conclusion; 3 Modern Psychiatry and Lacan's Theory of Psychosis; 3.1 Modern psychiatry and de Clérambault's theory of automatisms; 3.2 Lacan's classical theory of psychosis, elementary phenomena and paranoia; 3.3 Ordinary psychosis, elementary phenomenaand the suppletion; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 Competing Lacanian Views of Psychosis and the Body; 4.1 Freud's theory of the actual neuroses and psychoneurosis; 4.2 The actual neuroses and Verhaeghe's theory of actualpathology
4.3 Actualpathology, body phenomena and the field of ordinary psychosis4.4 Conclusion; 5 Revisiting the Body in the Onset of Psychosis; 5.1 Imaginary identification, ordinary psychosis and untriggered psychosis; 5.2 The mechanism of triggering and disturbances to phallic signification; 5.3 The onset of psychosis, triggering events and the Name-of-the-Father; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Ordinary Psychosis, Stabilisation and the Body; 6.1 Generalised foreclosure and the neurosis/psychosis distinction; 6.2 The functions of the Name-of-the-Father and the compensatory make-believe Name-of-the-Father
6.3 The hole in the Other: Elementary phenomena and the sinthome6.4 Body events and body phenomena in psychosis; 6.5 Conclusion; Afterword; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Current Lacanian ideas on psychosis have much to contribute to the complex and often surprising forms of psychotic symptomatology encountered in clinical practice. By focussing on the unique experience of individuals with psychosis, this book examines the centrality of body phenomena to both the onset and stabilisation of psychosis.
Clinical psychology.
Psychotherapy.
Counseling.
Psychiatry.
Psychology, Pathological.
Psychoanalysis.
Clinical Psychology.
Psychotherapy and Counseling.
Psychiatry.
Psychopathology.
Psychoanalysis.