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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.
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
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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.
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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.
