Seed of Madness Constitution, Environment, Fantasy in Organization of Psychotic Core

Contributors to this book explore hereditary and constitutional factors, environmental influences and unconscious fantasies in the development of the psychotic core in such patients and provide guidance for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to hear and therapeutically respond to these patients' uncanny ways of describing their internal worlds.

About the author

Salman Akhtar, MD, is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, PA.

Summary

Contributors to this book explore hereditary and constitutional factors, environmental influences and unconscious fantasies in the development of the psychotic core in such patients and provide guidance for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to hear and therapeutically respond to these patients' uncanny ways of describing their internal worlds.

Product details

• Assisted by: Vamik D Volkan (Editor), Salman Akhtar (Editor), Vamik D. Volkan (Editor)
• Authors: Salman Volkan Akhtar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 27.09.2019
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780367328757
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32875-7
• Pages: 226
• Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, Clinical Case Studies, object relations theory, affect regulation, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, neurobiological factors, schizophrenia vulnerability, psychotic core development in patients