
From Breakdown to Breakthrough
Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis
- 274 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
As a clear and user-friendly guide for clinicians who work with patients affected by psychosis, this book challenges the false notion that psychosis is untreatable through talk therapy.
The authors contend that since psychotic symptoms are features of survival adaptation, they naturally serve as a valuable source of information, providing clues about the origins of people's psychic derailment along with a path to its cure. The authors advise therapists not only to read and respond to the messages embedded in the symptoms, but also to recognize and utilise the non-psychotic aspects of the patient in facilitating recovery. The overall aim is to recruit the patient as a collaborator in their treatment, thus wresting a meaningful and redemptive narrative from the psychotic experience. All aspects and phases of treatment - from initial encounters through the middle phase to termination, and even supervision - are covered in this volume.
Abundant with clinical examples, theoretical and technical points, and treatment methods, this book is essential reading for all psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and other mental health clinicians working with psychosis.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About Language
- Foreword by Orna Ophir
- Introduction: From Breakdown to Breakthrough
- 1 Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis: Theory and Practice
- 2 Beginnings
- 3 Establishing a Pre-Alliance
- 4 Sample First Session: Psychosis and Cannabis
- 5 Outpatient Treatment with Psychosis: Managing Isolation and Creating Safety
- 6 “Don’t Step on Tony!”: Working with Psychotic Symptoms
- 7 Anybody Home? Working with Negative Symptoms
- 8 Alone in a Crowded Mind: When Psychosis Masks Loneliness
- 9 Coming Undone: Acute Decompensation and Creating a Narrative
- 10 Going Blind to See: A Case Study of Trauma, Regression, and Psychosis
- 11 Endings
- 12 Supervision
- References
- Index