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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457158703321

Autore

Williams Paul

Titolo

Psychosis (madness) / / by Paul Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©1999

ISBN

0-429-90396-0

0-429-47919-0

1-283-06852-4

9786613068521

1-84940-280-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 p.)

Collana

IDEAS

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Psychoses

Psychology, Pathological

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Contents; Acknowledgements; PauL Williams: Introduction; 1. Leslie Sohn: Psychosis and violence; 2. Michael Conran: Sorrow, vulnerability and madness; 3. Michael Sinason: How can you keep your hair on?; 4. Thomas Freeman: The delusions of the non-remitting schizophrenias: parallels with childhood phantasies; 5. Richard Lucas: Managing psychotic patients in a day hospital setting; 6. David Bell: Destructive narcissism and The Singing Detective; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume a number of British psychoanalysts introduce us to psychoanlaytic definitions of intra-psychic and subjective meaning in patients suffering psychotic conditions. Irrespective of the particular type of psychotic illness under consideration of the context or treatment, each paper illustrates how the psychoanalytic clinician searches to establish meaning from events which are highly complex and often overwhelmingly confusing.Contributors: "Psychosis and violence" Leslie Sohn; "Sorrow, Vulnerability and Madness", Michael Conran; "How Can You Keep Your Hair On?", Michael Sinason; "The



Delusions of the Non-Remitting Schizophrenias - Parallels with Childhood Phantasies", Thomas Freeman; "Managing Psychotic Patients in a Day Hospital Setting", Richard Lucas; "Desctructive Narcissism" and "The Singing Detective", David Bell.