Title: Psychotic temptation
Description: "How can we understand the pull towards that which we fear: psychosis? In this thought provoking book, Abensour proposes the idea of a temptation towards psychosis rather than a regression, as a response to the hatred or denial of the subject's origins. She shares her reflections on her psychoanalytic work with psychotic patients focusing on their struggle to achieve a coherent sense of a self that can inhabit a shared world. Abensour locates this struggle within the universal human struggle to achieve a balance between what we can and cannot allow ourselves to know about the reality of death and of our insignificance in the world"--
Subjects: Mental illness, Psychoses, Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, Psychotic Disorders, Therapy, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Methods, Psychoanalytic Theory, Mental Disorders, Psychanalyse, Maladies mentales, Traitement, Mental disorders, PSYCHOLOGY, Movements, Mental Health