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Book SynopsisThe purpose of the Whurr series in Psychoanalysis edited by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target of University College London, is to publish clinical and research based texts of academic excellence in the field. Each title makes a significant contribution and the series is open-ended. The readership is academic and graduate students in psychoanalysis, together with clinical practitioners, in Europe, North America and indeed worldwide.This book brings together a number of international writers who are concerned with understanding and treating psychoses. The orientation of the book is psychoanalytic, but it is also cognisant of the need for a multi-disciplinary approach to these disorders for which there remains no comprehensive cure. One of the greatest obstacles clinicians and patients face lies less in our ignorance than in failure by mental health services to integrate existing knowledge into workable treatment plans. Too often clinical disciplines (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, nursing etc.) work separately rather than together, employing languages that are mutually incomprehensible. As a result, patients are unlikely to have their different needs properly met. At the heart of the multi-disciplinary approach lies the therapeutic relationship between patient and psychoanalyst, psychodynamically-minded psychiatrist or psychotherapist. Detailed clinical cases are presented together with contemporary conceptualisations of psychotic states.Table of ContentsA Rationale for The Psychoanalytically Informed Psychotherapy of schizophrenia and Other Psychoses. Towards The Concept of "rehabilitative psychoanalysis", James S. Grotstein. New Discoveries Concerning Psychosis and their Organizational Fate, Brian Martindale. Psychoanalysis and The Treatment of Psychosis, Murray Jackson. Treating and Studying The Schizophrenias, Thomas Freeman. The Unconsious and The Psychosis, Franco De Masi. The "living Dead" - survivors of Torture and Psychosis, Andrzej Werbart and Marika Lindbom-Jakobson. "The Parachute Project" -first Episode Psychosis - Background and Treatment, Johan Cullberg. On Autism, Schizophrenia and Paranoia in children - The Case of Little Jeremy, Luiz Educardo Prado de Oliveira. Psychotic Addiction to Video Games, David Rosenfeld. Psychotic Developments in a Sexually Abused Borderline Patient, Paul Williams.

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Book SynopsisInspired by many successful years of teaching to analysts in training, Franco De Masi has selected the most significant lessons and added a few new ones to provide an enriching discussion of psychopathology and psychoanalytic clinical work. Lessons in Psychoanalysis begins with a general discussion of the scientific status of psychoanalysis, its main theories and models, and the way in which the unconscious registers emotional reality. These are followed by detailed chapters on key topics which relate more closely to clinical work. De Masi begins with the problem of diagnosis in psychoanalysis and the importance of a patient’s clinical history. He then turns his attention to transference and the analytic relationship, which he views as central to clinical work, followed by chapters on the analytic impasse and the use of countertransference. He then deals with other vital themes: regression, anxiety, phobia and panic, trauma, depersonalisation in the various syndromes, melancholic and non-melancholic depression, narcissism, and psychic withdrawal. He concludes with some final considerations of analytic therapy. De Masi makes clear that analytic concepts are not linear but formed over time from numerous contributions. To demonstrate this, he provides a description of how ideas evolved to form a concept. Following the trajectory enables a fuller understanding and demonstrates the flexibility of analytic concepts to incorporate new contributions without losing meaning. De Masi also includes data from neuroscientific research on certain phenomena to broaden the discussion and demonstrate what is happening in other related fields. His work shows that psychoanalysis has the capacity to be a unitary body which allows various models and theories to coexist even where disagreement may arise. This book is essential reading for trainee psychoanalysts and students, and highly recommended for qualified professionals who continue to question analytic practice and theory.Trade Review‘Lessons in Psychoanalysis, written by one of the leading contemporary voices in our field, draws upon its author’s long and fruitful experience as a clinician, educator, and theoretician. Starting from the assumption that there is no single explanatory theory that helps us understand the many-sidedness of clinical experience, it introduces readers to a number of key authors and theories, offering hypotheses that can be helpful when applied to specific psychopathological domains. At its heart is the assertion that psychoanalytic therapy avails itself of a natural function of the mind—emotional-intuitive functioning— potentially present in each of us, that allows us to make contact with unconscious processes in our patients and in ourselves.’ -- Howard B. Levine, Editor-in-Chief, 'The Routledge W. R. Bion Studies Series'‘Approximately fifteen years ago, I had the chance to be the first to publish Franco De Masi’s work in French. Since then, I have never stopped publishing his writing. His great psychoanalytic knowledge and methodological competencies, combined with undeniable clinical experience, notably in the field of psychosis, have made him an essential contemporary author. Thanks to the clarity of his thinking, the reader of Lessons in Psychoanalysis will not only be able to return to the fundamentals of practice, but will also be able to access a specifically analytical examination of psychopathology from the best of today’s psychoanalytic clinical work.’ -- Ana de Staal, psychoanalyst, member of the Freudian Psychoanalysis Society, and publisher in Paris‘Franco De Masi’s new book is a milestone in teaching psychoanalysis. It displays the author’s unique capacity to explain basic concepts up to complex clinical issues, like countertransference, trauma, and states of psychic withdrawal. It will be an essential text not only for the psychoanalytic student, but also for those experts who want to deepen and extend their didactic competence. The book also provides an insight into the author’s own clinical work and areas of research, in particular in working with narcissistic, borderline-psychotic, and severely traumatised patients. In my view, an invaluable contribution.’ -- Prof. Heinz Weiss, head, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, and member, board of directors, Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt am MainTable of ContentsAbout the author Introduction CHAPTER 1 On the specific nature of psychoanalysis CHAPTER 2 Making a diagnosis in psychoanalysis CHAPTER 3 The significance of history CHAPTER 4 Psychoanalytic theories CHAPTER 5 The unconscious and emotional reality CHAPTER 6 Non-validation of emotional experience CHAPTER 7 Transference and the analytic relationship CHAPTER 8 Impasse CHAPTER 9 Countertransference CHAPTER 10 Regression CHAPTER 11 Anxiety CHAPTER 12 Phobia and panic CHAPTER 13 Trauma CHAPTER 14 Identity and psychopathology CHAPTER 15 Melancholic depression CHAPTER 16 Non-melancholic depression CHAPTER 17 Narcissism CHAPTER 18 Psychic withdrawal CHAPTER 19 Final considerations References Index

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