On Being Normal and Other Disorders - A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics

About the author

Paul Verhaeghe is Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Ghent in Belgium and is also in private practice. He is the author of 'Love in a Time of Loneliness' (1999) and 'Does the Woman Exist?' (1999).

Summary

The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships. Thus, the diagnosis of potential pathologies must also be founded on this relation. Given that the efficacy of all forms of treatment depends upon the therapeutic relation, a diagnostic of

Product details

• Authors: Paul Verhaeghe, Verhaeghe Paul
• Assisted by: Sigi Jottkandt (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367325732
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32573-2
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Clinical psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Lacanian psychoanalysis