From Breakdown to Breakthrough

Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-57901-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

Reihe: Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knafo, Danielle

Selzer, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Danielle Knafo, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with expertise in the treatment of psychosis. During her tenure as professor at LIU's Clinical Psychology Doctoral program for 22 years, she chaired a concentration on serious mental illness. She is faculty and supervisor at NYU's Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. She has written and lectured extensively on psychoanalysis, trauma, and psychosis. 

Michael Selzer, M.D., is a psychiatrist who directed the Schizophrenia Division at NY Hospital, Westchester Division. He was also clinical associate professor at NY Downstate Medical Center, where he was director of medical education in psychiatry. He has taught and written about the treatment of psychosis and borderline personality disorder.