Living on the border : psychotic processes in the individual, the couple, and the group / edited by David Bell & Aleksandra Novakovic ; foreword by John Steiner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, David.

Novakovic, Aleksandra.

Series:

Tavistock Clinic series.

Tavistock Clinic series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book centres on the problem of psychosis, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective, as it manifests itself in different contexts and different levels of organisation: from the individual psychoanalytic session, through work with couples, groups and institutions and wider levels of social organisation. Beginning with a discussion of the psychoanalytic approach to psychosis centring on the work of Freud, Klein and the Post-Kleinians, it goes on to cover individual, couple and group therapy with psychotic patients. It draws on clinical material and theoretical discussion to explore the links between psychotic processes on different levels. This work is aimed at different professionals working within the psychodynamic frame of reference: individual psychotherapists, couple and family and group psychotherapists; organisational consultants and trainees in different therapies. As well as this it will be a useful resource to nurses, doctors and social workers who work with very disturbed patients and wish to learn about psychotic processes."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE The psychoanalytic approach to the treatment of psychotic patients; CHAPTER TWO Reflections on "meaning" and "meaninglessness" in post-Kleinian thought; CHAPTER THREE Rigidity and stability in a psychotic patient: some thoughts about obstacles to facing reality in psychotherapy; CHAPTER FOUR Forms of "folie-à-deux" in the couple relationship; CHAPTER FIVE Psychotic and depressive processes in couple functioning

CHAPTER SIX The Frozen Man: further reflections on glacial timesCHAPTER SEVEN Psychotic processes: a group perspective; CHAPTER EIGHT Psychotic processes in large groups; CHAPTER NINE A community meeting on an acute psychiatric ward: observation and commentaries; Commentary I; Commentary II; Commentary III; Commentary IV; CHAPTER TEN Asylum and society; CHAPTER ELEVEN Schizophrenia, meaninglessness, and professional stress; CHAPTER TWELVE Brilliant stupidity: madness in organizational life-a perspective from organizational consultancy; CHAPTER THIRTEEN The dynamics of containment; REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91577-2

0-429-90154-2

0-429-47677-9

1-78241-120-8

9780429476778

OCLC:

856432681