Part I Encountering schizophrenia 1. Common concepts and impressions of schizophrenia 2. Schizophrenia in families 3. The observed and the experiential faces of schizophrenia Part II Psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic approaches to schizophrenia 4. The contribution of Psychoanalysis towards understanding schizophrenia 5. Psychoanalytic and non-psychoanalytic features of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for schizophrenia 6. Psychotherapeutic approaches to schizophrenia Part III The process and results of treating schizophrenic and schizoaffective patients with psychoanalytic psychotherapy 7. Effective hospital-based treatment of schizophrenic patients 8. Difficulties encountered during psychoanalytic psychotherapy and overcoming them 9. Maintaining psychological wellbeing during the treatment process
Biography
Gillian Steggles is an academic psychiatry researcher based in London. She has a degree in Medicine from University College Hospital, London, and a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies from Essex University, and her work centres on a psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic approach to schizophrenia.
