3rd Edition
Psychosis and Near Psychosis Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment
By Eric Marcus
Copyright 2017
342 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
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The goal of psychotherapy as formulated in this revision of a classic text is to improve ego function of severely disturbed patients who are often hospitalized. This book shows why and how. It describes the psychotherapeutic techniques that aid patients to understand the meaning of the psychotic symbols so that they can experience reality and their emotions as separate entities. Medication... Read more
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ego Functions 2. Psychotic Structure 3. Near Psychotic Structure 4. Mental Status Examination 5. Psychiatric Illnesses and Mental Structure 6. Medication and Mental Structure 7. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of Psychosis 8. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of Near Psychosis 9. Transference and Countertransference References Name Index Subject Index
Biography
Eric R. Marcus is the director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and professor of clinical psychiatry in the department of psychiatry of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
