Description
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the use of psychoanalytic thinking in front line mental health settings and aims to make available an approach to working with emotional and mental disturbance to a wide range of clinicians within psychiatric and other mental health settings.
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Theory in Practice 3. Supervision and Consultation: turning in to psychotic communications in frontline mental health settings 4. Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in Therapeutic Relationships 5. Psychoanlaytic Understanding of Depressional and Suicidal Risk 6. Psychotherapeutic work with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder 7. Turning in to Psychotic Communication on a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit 8. Therapeutic work with treatment resistant patients 9. The Contribution of Psychanalytic Perspectives on the patient’s relationship with their bodies 10. Social Systems and Social Defence
