1st Edition
Treating the 'Untreatable' Healing in the Realms of Madness
By Ira Steinman
Copyright 2009
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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Treating the 'Untreatable' offers the hope of recovery, healing and cure for the most severe psychotic disturbances, schizophrenia and delusional disorder. Through a psychotherapeutic exploration of hallucinations, delusions and thought disorder, even the most hopeless and "untreatable" patients have a chance for returning to a life of relationships and function even after years, if not decades,... Read more
Preface -- Delusional reality -- The psychotherapy of delusional states -- Causes of a delusional orientation -- The method -- The history of the psychotherapy of schizophrenia and delusional states -- Psychotherapeutic technique and stages in the psychotherapy -- Apologia and clinical presentation -- The Good Angel, the Bad Devil, the Smiling Man's Voice, and Mother-God -- The pugilist, Mary, and the mother with the fiery halo -- Two rats and the extraterrestrial -- The ghost in the history -- Stalemate -- Maya, Little, and the world of illusion -- Death, Egyptian style -- Nobody -- The voice didn't win -- The world-class artist of the symbolic world: the Mafia, the movie stars and the "Unconscious God" -- Can anyone that evil ever really die? -- The cheerleader -- Thoughts, lessons and conclusions -- Long-term studies on schizophernia -- Brief review of the history of psychoanalytic perspectives on schizophrenia
Biography
Ira Steinman
