Transference in Institutional Work With Psychosis and Autism - The Transferential Constellation

This book presents Delion's extensive experience in psychiatric institutions, focusing on the concept of the transferential constellation. Delion discusses the pioneering work of François Tosquelles at the Saint Alban psychiatric hospital, which enabled psychoanalytic treatment to be applied in cases of severe psychopathologies.

List of contents

Introduction
The concept of transference in neurosis and psychosis
Multi-referential transference and the institution
Dissociated transference in adult patients
Adhesive and projective transference in children
The transferential constellation
Historical overview of institutional psychotherapy
Concluding remarks
Index

About the author

Pierre Delion is a psychoanalyst and Professor Emeritus of child psychiatry at the University of Lille, France. He is former chief of the Lille UHC Child Psychiatry Department, as well as the author of several books about babies, autism, psychosis and institutional psychotherapy.

Summary

This book presents Delion’s extensive experience in psychiatric institutions, focusing on the concept of the transferential constellation. Delion discusses the pioneering work of François Tosquelles at the Saint Alban psychiatric hospital, which enabled psychoanalytic treatment to be applied in cases of severe psychopathologies.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Delion
• Assisted by: Agnès Jacob (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032461489
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246148-9
• No. of pages: 62
• Series: Routledge Focus on Mental Health
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis