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Autore: |
De Masi Franco
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Titolo: |
Vulnerability to psychosis : a psychoanalytic study of the nature and therapy of the psychotic state / / by Franco De Masi
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Pubblicazione: | Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018] |
©2009 | |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (436 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.8914 |
Soggetto topico: | Psychotherapy |
Psychoses | |
Psychoses - Treatment | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Some psychoanalytic models of psychosis; CHAPTER TWO: The primitive and the pathological in psychosis; CHAPTER THREE: An example of psychotic transformation; CHAPTER FOUR: The unconscious and psychosis; CHAPTER FIVE: The meaning of dreams in the psychotic state; CHAPTER SIX: Intimidation at the helm: superego and hallucinations in the analytic treatment of a psychosis; CHAPTER SEVEN: Difficulties in therapy: relapses into psychosis; CHAPTER EIGHT: Intuitive and delusional thought |
CHAPTER NINE: Transference psychosisCHAPTER TEN: The fate of the transference in psychosis; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Psychotic withdrawal and jeopardization of the sense of reality; CHAPTER TWELVE: Disturbance of identity in the psychotic process; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Trauma and psychosis; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Some modes of entry into psychosis; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Concluding remarks; REFERENCES | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 'Franco De Masi is well known for his psychoanalytic work with patients suffering psychotic illnesses. In this book, he addresses the human vulnerability to psychosis, but the modest title of his book belies the depth of its investigations and conclusions. De Masi invites the reader into a thoughtful, systematic exploration of many aspects of the complex problems associated with psychotic illnesses: its ontogenesis and the emotional crises that lead to the dominance of psychotic thinking, the function of psychosis with regard to reality, its eruption or progression (depending upon the type of psychosis involved) and, crucially, the difficult and painstaking task of treatment. This latter theme is explored in considerable detail and is perhaps the most telling message of this book. Example after example of de Masi's engagement with patients illuminates his central objective - the gradual disinvestment by the patient of psychic energy allocated to ostensibly protective, but ultimately self-destructive, psychotic constructions and a re-investment in neurotic or more normal psychic reality - a world the patient has had to largely forsake under the sway of delusion. This book is large in scope and substantial in content. It provides the clinician with important perspectives on the origins and development of delusions in psychosis and offers a new perspective regarding the radical differences between delusional and normal or neurotic thought, and how these differences come about. It moves our thinking forward in an area that has too often been neglected, and for this we need to be grateful.'- Paul Williams, from the Introduction. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Vulnerability to psychosis ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-429-90950-0 |
0-429-48473-9 | |
1-282-77936-2 | |
9786612779367 | |
1-84940-816-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459341603321 |
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