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Features a critical evaluation of the contemporary DSM-diagnostic that shows that the lack of reference to an updated governing metapsychology impinges on the therapeutic value of the DSM categories. This book sketches out the foundations of such a metapsychology by combining a Freudo-Lacanian approach with contemporary empirical research.
Sommario
Preface -- Diagnostics and Discourse -- Introduction: Clinical Psychodiagnostics versus Medical Diagnostics -- Categorical Diagnostics versus Clinical Praxis: A Matter of Impossibility -- The Impotence of Epistemology -- Know-how in Clinical Practice: Doxa as the Result of Impotence and Impossibility -- Conclusion: The Need for a Metapsychology -- Metapsychology -- Identity as a Relational Structure -- Defense in Double Time: A Linear Model -- From a Linear to a Circular Model: On Becoming a Subject -- Etiology and Evolution: Nature, Nurture, and the Theory of the Drive -- Conclusion: The Subject's Position in Relation to Anxiety, Guilt, and Depression -- Positions and Structures of the Subject -- The Actualpathological Position: Panic Disorder and Somatization -- Between Actualpathology and Psychopathology: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline -- The Psychopathological Position of the Subject: Hysteria and Obsessional Neurosis -- Perverse Structure versus Perverse Traits -- The Psychotic Structure of the Subject -- Conclusion: Diagnosis and Treatment
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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).
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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
