1st Edition

Unimaginable Storms A Search for Meaning in Psychosis

By Murray Jackson, Paul Williams Copyright 1994
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of psychosis. Compelling clinical material is reproduced to help illuminate the meaning of illnesses such as paranoid schizophrenia, catatonia,... Read more
Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Paranoid schizophrenia: “the radio loves me” , Schizophrenic self-burning: which self? , Psychotic character: “a bit of an old rogue” , Catatonia 1: psychotic anorexia , Catatonia 2: imitation of Christ , Manic–depressive psychosis , The treatment setting , Integration

Biography

Murray Jackson