1st Edition

Weathering the Storms Psychotherapy for Psychosis

By Murray Jackson Copyright 2001
    392 Pages
    by Routledge

    392 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book focuses on the study and treatment of patients with psychotic illnesses. It draws on Kleinian concepts and Scandinavian clinical experience to show how a psychotherapeutic approach can, through a combination of empathy and sound theory, stabilise, contain, integrate and tame the psychosis.

    Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Psychotic features in obsessive-compulsive neurosis: "Ada" -- Obsessional symptoms following adolescent psychosis: "Brenda" -- Obsessions in schizophrenia: "Alec" -- Paranoid schizophrenia—command hallucinations: "Brian" -- Hysterical psychosis: "Claudia" -- Anorexia, psychosis, and the question of sexual abuse: "Dorothy" -- Paranoid schizophrenia—space—time factors: "Conrad" -- Chronic paranoid schizophrenia—schizoid thinking: "Ellen" -- Paranoid violence: "Duncan" -- Schizophrenia—psychotherapy, termination, reparation: "Florence" -- Paranoid psychosis—delusional body image: "Elmer" -- Paranoid delusions—sealing-over and working through a psychotic transference: "Frank" -- Phobia, hysteria, psychosis: "Grace" -- Chronic schizophrenia—catatonic and spatial features: "George" -- Manic-depressive psychosis: "Harry" -- Vignettes -- Mostly theory -- Mostly practice -- Conclusions -- Characteristics of schizoid thinking -- Infancy research and the “right mind” -- The future—winds of change

    Biography

    Jackson, Murray