Franco De Masi

Vulnerability to Psychosis

A Psychoanalytic Study of the Nature and Therapy of the Psychotic State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book postulates that the trigger of the psychotic condition is located in the basic processes which structure the first emotional relations. It presents some of the reasons why patients succumb to the attraction of a course doomed to result in the permanent derangement of their minds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780367329600
• ISBN-10: 0367329603
• Artikelnr.: 57146307

Autorenporträt

Franco De Masi

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Some psychoanalytic models of psychosis
The primitive and the pathological in psychosis
An example of psychotic transformation
The unconscious and psychosis
The meaning of dreams in the psychotic state
Intimidation at the helm: superego and hallucinations in the analytic treatment of a psychosis
Difficulties in therapy: relapses into psychosis
Intuitive and delusional thought
Transference psychosis
The fate of the transference in psychosis
Psychotic withdrawal and jeopardization of the sense of reality
Disturbance of identity in the psychotic process
Trauma and psychosis
Some modes of entry into psychosis
Concluding remarks