1st Edition

Obsessions The Twisted Cruelty

By Francesco Bisagni Copyright 2017
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the interrelatedness between obsessive compulsive disorders, thinking disorders, and depression. The issue is considered both from a psychiatric viewpoint and from a psychodynamic perspective. The age of the cases presented in the book ranges from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. Obsessions: The Twisted Cruelty is a challenging contribution to contemporary clinical... Read more
Foreword , Introduction , Theory: Models and Perspectives , Psychiatric contributions: classifications and treatments , Psychoanalyses: symptoms, structures, and contexts , The Psychotic Threshold: OCD and Thinking Disorder , Intersections , The case of Marcelino: early adoption and ongoing intrusion , Marco and Maria: OCD and developmental breakdown at puberty , Pharmaco-psychotherapy: the combined transference , Interlude: lie and obsession—variations on a folie à deux , The Anal Conundrum , Introduction to Part III , The arrogance of power: Pasolini’s Salò , Encopresis, obsessional control, and the development of sexual promiscuity , Anal stench: Alex and the gas of solitude , The Depressive Threshold , Introduction to Part IV , Sonia: the king-size coffin—Imprisonment 1 , Fabio: the right to be furious—Imprisonment 2

Biography

Francesco Bisagni