| Vulnerability to Psychosis: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Nature and Therapy of the Psychotic State Contributor(s): de Masi, Franco (Author), Slotkin, Philip (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0367329603 ISBN-13: 9780367329600 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 150.195 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 344 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book postulates that the trigger of the psychotic condition is located in the basic processes which structure the first emotional relations. It presents some of the reasons why patients succumb to the attraction of a course doomed to result in the permanent derangement of their minds. |
Contributor Bio(s): de Masi, Franco: - Franco De Masi is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and former President of Centro Milanese di Psicoanalisi and Secretary of the Training Milanese Institute. He is a medical doctor and a psychiatrist who worked for twenty years in psychiatric hospitals. Now he lives and works as a full time psychoanalyst in Milan. Currently his main interests are focused on the theoretical and technical psychoanalytical issues related to severely ill patients. He has published several papers in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis and in the Rivista Italiana di Psicoanalisi. He is author and editor of numerous books including Making Death Thinkable. |