Introduction

In this volume a number of British psychoanalysts introduce us to psychoanalytic definitions of intra-psychic and subjective meaning in patients suffering psychotic conditions. Irrespective of the particular type of psychotic illness under consideration of the context or treatment, each paper illustrates how the psychoanalytic clinician searches to establish meaning from events which are highly complex and often overwhelmingly confusing.

Contributors

Psychosis and violence Leslie Sohn

Sorrow, Vulnerability and Madness Michael Conran

How Can You Keep Your Hair On? Michael Sinason

The Delusions of the Non-Remitting Schizophrenias - Parallels with Childhood Phantasies Thomas Freeman

Managing Psychotic Patients in a Day Hospital Setting Richard Lucas

Destructive Narcissism and The Singing Detective David Bell