Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 700 g
Reihe: Figures of the Unconscious
Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 700 g
Reihe: Figures of the Unconscious
ISBN: 978-90-5867-160-8
Verlag: Leuven University Press
In his contribution, Wilfried Ver Eecke draws several lessons from evaluating the literature on schizophrenia. He argues that epistemologically neither a biological nor a psychological method of reasoning can capture all the factors that can play a role in the creation of schizophrenia. He relies heavily, but not exclusively, on the Finnish studies of Tienari, Myrhman, and Wahlberg and their colleagues to provide statistical evidence that non-biological factors also play an important role in causing schizophrenia. He relies heavily, but again not exclusively, on the study by Karon & VandenBos to demonstrate statistically the efficiency of psychodynamically inspired therapy of schizophrenics.
Ver Eecke also addresses an apparent inconsistency in De Waelhens' presentation of Lacan's theory of schizophrenia. Where De Waelhens seemed to argue at one time that the mother figure was the crucial figure to explain schizophrenia (leading to a defective relation to the body) and at another time that it was the role of the father which was crucial (leading to a defective relation to language and the symbolic), there Ver Eecke argues that the defective function of each influences the function of the other. He then draws a conclusion for the therapy of schizophrenics: to be helpful a therapist will have to address both deficiencies. The problem for treating schizophrenics is that correcting an unconscious deficiency to the body-a deficiency in the imaginary-requires a totally different kind of intervention than an attempt to correct a symbolic deficiency-a deficiency in the paternal function. A correction of the imaginary requires a kind of maternal mirroring; a correction of the symbolic requires making a distinction or a prohibition stick. One further difficulty arises. Psychotherapy uses language in its treatment. However, language in schizophrenics is deficient. We can therefore expect that language will be inefficient. This is so unless the therapist uses language, first, to make a repair at the imaginary level and only thereafter makes an attempt to make a correction in the symbolic. In analyzing successful therapeutic techniques reported by several therapists Ver Eecke discovers that all of them first try to repair the imaginary before they attempt to make corrections to the symbolic.
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Foreword (De Waelhens)
Preface (Ver Eecke)
Introduction. Situating the Contribution by A. De Waelhens (Ver Eecke)
Chapter One
The usefulness of the theory of De Waelhens/Lacan for an effective approach to schizophrenia, after the decade of the brain (Ver Eecke)
Chapter Two
Some Classic Psychiatric Conceptions of Schizophrenia (De Waelhens)
Chapter Three
The Accession to Language and Primal Repression. Their Failure in Schizophrenia (De Waelhens)
Chapter Four
The Structural Role of the Oedipus Complex. Absence of the Oedipal Triangle in Psychosis (De Waelhens)
Chapter Five
Psychoanalytic interpretation of Psychosis. The Paternal Metaphor and Foreclosure (De Waelhens)
Chapter Six
Concluding Reflections on the Problem of Psychosis. Psychoanalytic and Existential Criteria of Psychosis (De Waelhens)
Chapter Seven
Existential Elucidation of the Unconscious and of Psychosis (De Waelhens)
Conclusion (De Waelhens)
Bibliography (Ver Eecke)
Notes (Ver Eecke/De Waelhens)
Index (Ver Eecke)