Vulnerability to psychosis
Subtitle: a psychoanalytic study of the nature and therapy of the psychotic state
By: Franco De Masi
Publisher: Karnac
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781855755048
Subjects: Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychotic Disorders; Methods; Psychoses; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychotherapy; Treatment
Work titles: Vulnerabilità alla psicosi
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: Some psychoanalytic models of psychosis; title: The primitive and the pathological in psychosis; title: An example of psychotic transformation; title: The unconscious and psychosis; title: The meaning of dreams in the psychotic state; title: Intimidation at the helm: superego and hallucinations in the analytic treatment of a psychosis; title: Difficulties in therapy: relapses into psychosis; title: Intuitive and delusional thought; title: Transference psychosis; title: The fate of the transference in psychosis; title: Psychotic withdrawal and jeopardization of the sense of reality; title: Disturbance of identity in the psychotic process; title: Trauma and psychosis; title: Some modes of entry into psychosis; title: Concluding remarks.