Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Psychosis - A Case of Catatonia and Discussion

This book explores the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient with psychosis from a range of different psychotherapeutic perspectives. With a fresh perspective on psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis, this book is an essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and clinicians involved in the treatment of psychosis.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Early case of therapy with a catatonic boy 2. Interview with the therapist 3. Witnessing the patient with psychosis 4. Comment on Dr. Bennett E. Roth’s experiences with a psychotic young man dominated by an internal pathological organization. 5. Discussion of Dr. Bennett E. Roth’s case of a catatonic boy 6. Comment on Dr. Bennett E. Roth’s experiences with a catatonic psychotic boy: technical challenges of working with the psychotic and the nonpsychotic parts 7. Gone 8. Working in the dark and from the heart 9. On trust as a necessary precondition to therapeutic success discussion

About the author

Bennett Roth received a Ph.D. degree from New York University then trained in both psychoanalysis and group therapy. He has contributed to journals in both fields with particular interest in difficult patients. Following consulting work after 9/11, he researched group violence that resulted in A Group Analytic Approach to Mass Violence.

Summary

This book explores the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient with psychosis from a range of different psychotherapeutic perspectives. With a fresh perspective on psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis, this book is an essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and clinicians involved in the treatment of psychosis.

Product details

• Authors: Bennett E. (Department of Psychiatry Roth, Phd. Roth
• Assisted by: Bennett E. Roth (Editor), Bennett E. Roth PhD. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032702490
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3270249-0
• No. of pages: 72
• Series: Routledge Focus on Mental Health
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Schizophrenia, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis