Self Psychology and Psychosis - Couverture souple

Steinman, Ira; Garfield, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782202285 ISBN 13 : 9781782202288

Editeur : Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

In this groundbreaking volume, the authors bring us into the immediacy of the analyst's consulting room in direct confrontation with the thought disorder, delusions and hallucinations of their patients grappling with psychosis. From the early days of psychoanalysis when Freud explicated the famous Schreber case, analysts of all persuasions have brought a variety of theories to bear on the problem of schizophrenia and the other psychoses. Here, as William Butler Yeats notes, "the centre cannot hold" and any sense of self-esteem - positive feelings about oneself, a continuous sense of self in time and a functional coherence and cohesion of self - is shattered or stands in imminent danger. What makes psychoanalytic self psychology so compelling as a framework for understanding psychosis is how it links together the early recognition of narcissistic impairment in these disorders to the "experience-near" focus which is the hallmark of self psychology.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

David Garfield is Professor, Associate Chair for Psychotherapy and Director of Psychiatry Residency Training in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School. He graduated from UCSF School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry training at Harvard's Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He also finished his psychoanalytic training in 2006 at Chicago's Institute for Psychoanalysis and he is on their voluntary teaching faculty. He has written dozens of articles on psychotherapy and his book, 'Unbearable Affect: A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis' is in its second edition (Karnac Books, 2009). He has co-edited the book 'Beyond Medication' and he lectures internationally on psychosis.

Ira Steinman has focused on schizophrenia for 45 years; his early training ranged from studying with R.D. Laing to working at the National Academy of Sciences' Drug Efficacy Study, which evaluated all the antipsychotic medications available at that time. For more than 35 years, he has pursued an out-patient psychiatric practice where he has been able to demonstrate that an intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy, in conjunction with the judicious use of antipsychotic medication, can help even the most lost and disturbed schizophrenic and delusional patients recover, heal and, at times, achieve a cure. With such an approach, some allegedly "untreatable" schizophrenics have been able to work their way off of antipsychotic medication. He has spoken on this subject at length on a local, statewide, national and international level for more than twenty five years. He is a member of the ISPS (International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and other Psychoses); the American Psychiatric Association; and the Northern California Psychiatric Association

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782202285
• ISBN 13: 9781782202288
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible