Ira Steinman

Treating the 'Untreatable'

Healing in the Realms of Madness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through a psychotherapeutic exploration of hallucinations, delusions and thought disorder, even the most hopeless and 'untreatable' patients have a chance for returning to a life of relationships. This title offers the hope of recovery, healing and cure for some of the most severe psychotic disturbances, schizophrenia and delusional disorder.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 149mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781855756809
• ISBN-10: 1855756803
• Artikelnr.: 42352443

Autorenporträt

Ira Steinman

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Delusional reality
The psychotherapy of delusional states
Causes of a delusional orientation
The method
The history of the psychotherapy of schizophrenia and delusional states
Psychotherapeutic technique and stages in the psychotherapy
Apologia and clinical presentation
The Good Angel, the Bad Devil, the Smiling Man's Voice, and Mother
God
The pugilist, Mary, and the mother with the fiery halo
Two rats and the extraterrestrial
The ghost in the history
Stalemate
Maya, Little, and the world of illusion
Death, Egyptian style
Nobody
The voice didn't win
The world
class artist of the symbolic world: the Mafia, the movie stars and the "Unconscious God"
Can anyone that evil ever really die?
The cheerleader
Thoughts, lessons and conclusions
Long
term studies on schizophernia
Brief review of the history of psychoanalytic perspectives on schizophrenia