The book is a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis as a particular organisation of the personality, based on 'psychotic personality' (Bion) and 'pathological organisations' (Steiner). The theoretical development is traced through Freud, Klein and Bion, along with contempora…
"The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis details specific therapeutic approaches as well as considering how treatments can be individually tailored and adapted to help persons whose mental health challenges may be either mild or more severe. By focusing on basic elements of the ex…
"The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis details specific therapeutic approaches as well as considering how treatments can be individually tailored and adapted to help persons whose mental health challenges may be either mild or more severe. By focusing on basic elements of the ex…
"The Recovery of the Self in Psychosis details specific therapeutic approaches as well as considering how treatments can be individually tailored and adapted to help persons whose mental health challenges may be either mild or more severe. By focusing on basic elements of the ex…
"Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas shows that schizophreni…
"Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas asserts that schizophre…
"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 reflection…
"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 reflection…
6. Bion and psychosis; Introduction; Differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities; Intrinsic features linked to the development of schizophrenia; The nature of bizarre objects; The non-psychotic part; Thinking: putting thoughts into words; Ideographs and…
"Dialogical Meetings in Social Networks describes and analyses two dialogic network practices, Open Dialogues and Anticipation Dialogues. Both are the result of development and research for almost two decades, and bring professional and private networks into dialogue and strive …
