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Psychotic Organisation of the Personality

Psychotic Organisation of the Personality Psychoanalytic Keys - The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 contemporary Kleinian authors. An important role is granted to psychic pain as the cornerstone of psychopathology, and particularly to the psychotic patient's difficulties in dealing with it. Bion's distinction between "feeling psychic pain and suffering it" is considered an indicator when evaluating the patient's ability to cope with psychoanalytic treatment. The author's experience with a schizophrenic patient is related in detail, offering a view of the patient and her relationship with the analyst from various different angles, and showing how the psychoanalytic method can be used to treat psychosis.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781782205685
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 616.89
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 274
Weight: 442g
Height: 153mm
Width: 229mm
Spine width: 22mm