1st Edition

Unbearable Affect A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis

By David Garfield Copyright 2009
    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this cohesive, dramatic, and highly readable book, the author establishes a roadmap for the diagnosis and psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic disorders based on finding, understanding and reordering of unbearable affect. He provides concrete clinical advice, vivid examples, and crisp jargon-free descriptions of theoretical concepts and clinical techniques. Most of all, he demonstrates that it is possible for psychotic patients to take control of their conditions, rebuild family relationships, and establish themselves in the viable productive lives that they have long despaired of achieving.

    ContentsSECTION I AFFECT DIAGNOSISSECTION II AFFECT THERAPEUTICSSECTION Ill A LIFE'S WORK: STAYING OUT OF PSYCHOSIS

    Biography

    David Garfield