Zachary Wheeler

Equal to the Madness

Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis

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Produktbeschreibung

Presented in a clear and comprehensive way, this book synthesizes a broad base of psychoanalytic research theory and technique into an innovative, flexibly structured treatment for schizophrenia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 984g
• ISBN-13: 9781538159774
• ISBN-10: 1538159775
• Artikelnr.: 69242585

Autorenporträt

Zachary Wheeler, PsyD is a clinical psychologist based in Los Angeles, California. Through his work at residential facilities and his private practice, Dr. Wheeler has treated numerous patients presenting with severe mental health disorders. His general therapeutic orientation is informed by contemporary psychoanalytic theory, particularly the work of Wilfred Bion. His primary interests are in the research, development, and teaching of psychotherapy for schizophrenia spectrum disorders as well as the psychotherapy of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures, Tables, and Textboxes
Introduction
Part I: Groundwork
Chapter 1: Narrativizing the Forgotten Catastrophe: A Subjective Etiology
of Schizophrenia
Chapter 2: Bion's Conception of Schizophrenia and Psychosis
Part II: Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis (CIP-P)
Chapter 3: Psychoanalytic Vertices for Diagnosing Psychosis and
Schizophrenia
Chapter 4: Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis, Part
I: Principles, Techniques, and Modifications
Chapter 5: Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis, Part
II: Initiating the Treatment
Chapter 6: Driven Crazy: The Varieties of Psychotic Countertransference
Part III: Psychotic Symptomatology: Psychodynamics and Clinical Approach
Chapter 7: The Relief of Having a Singly Story, Part I: Delusion Formation
Chapter 8: The Relief of Having a Singly Story, Part II: Common Delusional
Themes and Principles of Treatment
Chapter 9: Sensory Blindness: Treatment of Hallucinatory Experience
Chapter 10: Afterthought Disorders, Part I: Syntax, Morphology, and
Pragmatics of the Unconscious
Chapter 11: Afterthought Disorders, Part II: Linguistic Typology and
Language Interventions
Chapter 12: Ego Castration: Treating Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia
with Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Chapter 13: A Life of Quiet Desperation: Catatonia as Hypertrophy of the
False Self
Chapter 14: Psychic Birth Defects as Foundation for Soma-Psychotic States
Chapter 15: Attacking the Link: Genital Mutilation and Psychotic
Anti-Sexuality
Chapter 16: Dead Objects and Subject Relationships: The Origins of
Disturbed Attention
Chapter 17: A Retreat from Madness: Autistic Phenomenology in the
Schizophrenia Spectrum
Part IV: Working Through
Chapter 18: Major Conflicts, Tensions, and Subclinical Syndromes in
Schizophrenia
Chapter 19: Slouching Toward Zero: Working with Proto-Affect and Emotional
Deadness
Chapter 20: Stepping into a Dream: Working with Transference Psychosis
Chapter 21: Neophobia as Operative Influence in Forms of Psychotic
Resistance
Chapter 22: Consummate Lies: Psychotic Defensive Conglomerations
Chapter 23: Regression as Anti-Growth in Schizophrenia
Chapter 24: Equal to the Madness: Course of Treatment and Working Through
References
Index
About the Author