1st Edition

Outpatient Treatment of Psychosis Psychodynamic Approaches to Evidence-Based Practice

Edited By David L. Downing, Jon Mills Copyright 2017
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a practitioner's guide to evidence-based practice in working with psychotic patients in an outpatient setting by clinicians and scholars who are internationally recognized for their work in treating severe psychopathology. Topics cover conceptual, technical, and practical considerations in the parameters of working with adult and adolescent populations that exhibit thought... Read more
Introduction , Conceptual Considerations , A proposed model for the outpatient treatment of psychosis in private practice settings , Outpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy with psychotics: managing isolation and creating safety , The Clinical Encounter , Working with psychosis: contextualising and integrating fragments of meaning , Rethinking psychosis: attachment, developmental trauma, and the psychotic spectrum , Soaking in madness: a Modern Psychoanalytic approach to treating psychosis , Treatment Populations and Contrasting Theoretical Models , The endless hunt and the edge of psychosis: the persecutory search for identity , An archetypal approach to treating combat post-traumatic stress disorder , Finding and being a self: schizoid phenomena in the psychoanalytic treatment of a transgendered adolescent , A Jungian approach to the interpretation and treatment of delusions in adolescence

Biography

David L. Downing, PsyD, ABPP, is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of Indianapolis, School of Psychological Sciences. Author of many works, he also maintains a private practice in Illinois and Indiana, USA.

Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP, is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. He is Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis at Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto, and is the author of numerous works. He runs a mental health corporation in Ontario, Canada.