1st Edition
On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” 100 Years Later
On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” explores these two key papers on the topics of psychosis and neurosis and their relationship to the unconscious and to reality.
The contributors to this book approach these texts from both a historical and a contemporary point of view, highlighting their fundamental contributions and comparing Freud’s thoughts with modern psychoanalytic theory. The chapters demonstrate the ongoing richness of Freud’s work and his legacy by highlighting new ideas and developments and include both clinical vignettes and theoretical insight. The contributors also raise questions that deserve further study, about the understanding and treatment of psychosis in children, distinctions and similarities between autism and psychosis, and the way in which aspects of our rapidly changing world – social media, climate change, AI - influence the evolution of psychotic states.
On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented clinicians in practice and in training. It will also be of interest to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies and to readers interested in how modern clinicians interpret Freud’s work.
Series Editor’s Forward
Freud, S. (1924) “Neurosis and psychosis”
Freud, S (1924) “The loss of reality in neurosis and psychosis”
1.- Introduction
By Catalina Bronstein and Gabriela Legorreta
2.- The clinic of psychosis.
By Altamirando Mates de Andrade
3.- Reality and Pscyho (-Pathological) Organisation of the Personality
By Antonio Pérez-Sánchez
4.- Some Observations on the Relation to Reality and the Function of Belief in Schizophrenia
By David Bell
5.- “The negative in psychosis”
By Marie-France Brunet
6.- The Object of Psychosis
By Paul Williams
7.- Psychosis and Neurosis: What reality?
By Dominique Scarfone
8.- Possessiveness and its relation to some youthful follies
By Carlos Moguillansky
9.- Sensory perceptions as regulators of psychic reality
By Elisabeth Skale
Biography
Gabriela Legorreta, PhD, is a member of the Montreal Psychoanalytic Society (French section of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society), as well as a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Montreal Psychoanalytic Institute and President Elect of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. She is former Chair and present Consultant of the IPA Publications Committee.
Catalina Bronstein, MD, is a training and supervising analyst, and former president, of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She is a child and adolescent and adult psychoanalyst working at the Brent Adolescent Centre in London and in private practice, and is Visiting Professor at the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London.
“The essays in this thoughtfully constructed book open new and important vistas in our understanding of psychosis and the psychoses. These are certainly times that demand of psychoanalysis a return to the study of psychosis and the authors offer us an enlightening beginning to that task.” - Christopher Bollas, Psychoanalyst and writer, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society; The Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, and Honorary Member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is a member of ESGUT, the European Study Group of Unconscious Thought.
“Contrary to other writings, Freud (1925) stated that ‘the treatment of psychotic patient can be useful for the formulation of new theories, and the transference in psychotic patients is not completely absent. Transference is often not entirely absent but can be used to a certain extent’. Your book will be a mandatory study for all psychoanalysis scholars. The chapters dedicated to the evolution of the concept of neurosis and psychosis in Freud’s work are of great theoretical and clinical richness.” - David Rosenfeld, training and supervising analyst, Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association; consultant professor, School of Medicine, Buenos Aires University; former Vice-President, International Psychoanalytic Association
