Making Room for Madness in Mental Health - The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication

In this book, Marcus Evans makes a strong case for the importance of psychoanalytic supervision in mental health practice and its role in helping frontline staff to "tune in" to their patients' unconscious communications or the "psychotic wavelength".

Table des matières

Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Theory in practice -- Psychoanalytic supervision in mental health settings -- Being driven mad: towards understanding borderline states -- Pinned against the ropes: psychoanalytic understanding of patients with antisocial personality disorder -- Tuning in to the psychotic wavelength -- The role of psychoanalytic assessment in the management and care of a psychotic patient -- Deliberate self-harm: "I don't have a problem dying, it's living I can't stand" -- Anorexia: the silent assassin within -- Hysteria: the erotic solution to psychological problems -- Conclusion

A propos de l'auteur

Evans, Marcus

Résumé

In this book, Marcus Evans makes a strong case for the importance of psychoanalytic supervision in mental health practice and its role in helping frontline staff to "tune in" to their patients' unconscious communications or the "psychotic wavelength".

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Marcus Evans, Marcus O''shaughnessy Evans, Edna O'Shaughnessy
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781782203292
• ISBN: 978-1-78220-329-2
• Pages: 240
• Thèmes: Tavistock Clinic; Tavistock Clinic Series; Tavistock Clinic Series; Tavistock clinic
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Psychologie, ésotérique, spiritualité, anthroposophie > Psychologie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Psychologie > Psychanalyse; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Médecine > Général