1st Edition
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Psychosis Genesis, Psychopathology and Case Study
Foreword, Howard B. Levine; Introduction; Part 1; Chapter 1: Psychosis: the problem of a specific technique; Chapter 2: Non systematic models; Chapter 3: Kleinian contributions; Part 2; Chapter 4: The setting and transference in psychosis; Chapter 5: The psychic withdrawal and the psychotic part of the personality; Chapter 6: Dreams and delusions in psychosis; Chapter 7: Hallucinations; Chapter 8: Trauma and the Super-ego in psychosis; Part 3; Chapter 9: A psychoanalytic therapy; Chapter 10: Clinical considerations; Chapter 11: Future perspectives; References; Index
Biography
Franco De Masi is a former president of the Centro Milanese di Psicoanalisi and Secretary of the Training Institute of Milan. He has published papers in international psychoanalytical journals and books translated into English, French, German, Spanish and Polish.
"...this book is of immense value to any clinician who seeks to grasp and address the nature of the destructive mystery that appears to shroud the omnipotently functioning mind of the psychotic individual. It provides conceptual tools and a range of technical and humane strategies for engaging with the patient despite the inordinate obstacles faced by both parties. That these obstacles may, over time and with sufficient skill and patience, be overcome gives renewed hope to clinicians working to ameliorate the plight of this most damaged, and often neglected, group of patients." - The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
