The psychotic wavelength
Subtitle: a psychoanalytic perspective for psychiatry
By: Richard Lucas.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hove, East Sussex [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780415484688; 9780415484695
Subjects: Psychoses; Psychoanalysis; Psychotic Disorders -- diagnosis; Psychotic Disorders -- therapy; Affective Disorders, Psychotic -- diagnosis; Affective Disorders, Psychotic -- therapy; Psychoanalytic Theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The medical model; title: Controversial issues in psychosis; title: Freud's contributions to psychosis; title: The Kleinian contribution to psychosis; title: Bion and psychosis; title: A contemporary Freudian perspective on psychosis; title: The psychoanalytic treatment of schizophrenia : lessons from Chestnut Lodge; title: The divided self : evaluating R.D. Laing's contribution to thinking about psychosis; title: Differentiating psychotic processes from psychotic disorders; title: The psychotic wavelength; title: Dreams and delusions; title: Utilising the countertransference in psychosis; title: Why the cycle in a clinical psychosis?; title: Puerperal psychosis : vulnerability and aftermath; title: Managing depression : psychoanalytic psychotherapy, antidepressants, or both?; title: Developing an exoskeleton; title: Destructive attacks on reality and the self; title: The role of psychotherapy in reducing the risk of suicide in affective disorders : a case study; title: Education in psychosis.