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Living on the Border
. Ed(S): Bell, David; Novakovic, Aleksandra
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Description for Living on the Border
Paperback. Focuses on the problem of psychosis, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective, as it manifests itself in different contexts and different levels of organisation: from the individual psychoanalytic session, through work with couples, groups and institutions and wider levels of social organisation. Editor(s): Bell, David; Novakovic, Aleksandra. Series: The Tavistock Clinic Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
This book centres on the problem of psychosis, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective, as it manifests itself in different contexts and different levels of organisation: from the individual psychoanalytic session, through work with couples, groups and institutions and wider levels of social organisation. Beginning with a discussion of the psychoanalytic approach to psychosis centring on the work of Freud, Klein and the Post-Kleinians, it goes on to cover individual, couple and group therapy with psychotic patients. It draws on clinical material and theoretical discussion to explore the links between psychotic processes on different levels. This work is aimed at different ... Read more
This book centres on the problem of psychosis, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective, as it manifests itself in different contexts and different levels of organisation: from the individual psychoanalytic session, through work with couples, groups and institutions and wider levels of social organisation. Beginning with a discussion of the psychoanalytic approach to psychosis centring on the work of Freud, Klein and the Post-Kleinians, it goes on to cover individual, couple and group therapy with psychotic patients. It draws on clinical material and theoretical discussion to explore the links between psychotic processes on different levels. This work is aimed at different ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Karnac Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
The Tavistock Clinic Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781855756014
SKU
V9781855756014
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About . Ed(S): Bell, David; Novakovic, Aleksandra
David Bell is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where he directs the Fitzjohn's Unit, a specialist service for serious/complex psychological disorders. He is visiting Professorial Fellow, Birkbeck College, London and past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Throughout his career he has been deeply involved in the relation between psychoanalysis and literature, philosophy and politics, and ... Read more
Reviews for Living on the Border
'A comprehensive exploration of some of the most puzzling and intransigent mental states that clinicians encounter ; "Ground breaking" is often an over-used and cliched term, ...but in the case of this book, it constitutes a fair description, one most unusual in the professional literature hitherto.'- Margot Waddell, author of Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality'A wide ... Read more