1st Edition

Childhood Psychosis A Lacanian Perspective

By Silvia Elena Tendlarz Copyright 2002
150 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book, focusing on the work of Jacques Lacan, examines psychosis in children, without ignoring the study of neurosis in childhood and concentrates on autism as produced by psychic disorders, by the symbolic failure that brings about the inclusion of the subject into the psychotic structure.

Introduction -- Lacan and childhood psychosis -- The structure of the subject -- Lacan’s remarks on childhood psychosis -- Varieties of treatment -- A Lacanian view of treatment -- Final reflections

Biography

Silvia Elena Tendlarz