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On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
Paul Verhaeghe
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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 this sort has wide-ranging applications. The author's critical evaluation of the contemporary DSM-diagnostic shows that the lack of reference to and governing metapsychology impinges on the therapeutic value of the DSM categories. In response to this problem, the author sketches out the foundations of such a metapsychology by combining ... Read more
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 this sort has wide-ranging applications. The author's critical evaluation of the contemporary DSM-diagnostic shows that the lack of reference to and governing metapsychology impinges on the therapeutic value of the DSM categories. In response to this problem, the author sketches out the foundations of such a metapsychology by combining ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
538
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781855756885
SKU
V9781855756885
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About Paul Verhaeghe
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).
Reviews for On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
'A major achievement from a major scholar...This book is an outstanding review of the highest quality of Lacanian thinking.'- Peter Fonagy, University of London.'Verhaeghe creates pathways through the contested field of contemporary clinical diagnosis. The themes of this book are real and urgent.'- Bernard Burgoyne, Middlesex University'The kind of book that can have transformational effects... the old ways ... are ... Read more