1st Edition

The Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance

By Paul Williams Copyright 2010
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents the proceedings of the of the conference on the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance held in Belfast in June 2008.The aim of the conference was to offer a state of the art communication of the key psychoanalytic thinking and approaches to the conceptualisation and treatment of severe disturbance. The result of a unique gathering of the most eminent psychoanalysts in... Read more
Foreword , Welcome , The therapeutic action in psychoanalytic psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder , Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) , The mentalization based approach to psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder , Psychoanalytic group therapy with severely disturbed patients: Benefits and challenges , The fiend that sleeps but does not die: Toward a psychoanalytic treatment of the addictions , Some considerations about the psychoanalytic conceptualisation and treatment of psychotic disorders , “First you were an eyebrow” and “How do I know that my thoughts are my thoughts?” , Pre-suicide states of mind , Individual and large-group identities: Does working with borderline patients teach us anything about international negotiations? , Plenary Discussion

Biography

Paul Williams