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Author Küchenhoff, Joachim, author

Title Understanding psychosis : a psychoanalytic approach / Joachim Küchenhoff ; translated by M.A. Luitgard Feiks and Jürgen Muck
Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018

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Contents Introduction. Psychiatry, Psychopathology and Psychodynamics. Psychoanalytic Theories about Psychosis. Conditions of Psychotic Experience: A Psychodynamic Factor Model. Psychotherapeutic Work with Psychotic Patients. Psychotherapeutic Engagement with Psychotic Patients: Concluding Remarks
Summary Do psychotic disorders make sense? Are psychotic symptoms amenable to interpretation? Understanding Psychosis: A Psychoanalytic Approach takes the various pathways to psychotic illness outlined by psychoanalytic clinicians and scholars and integrates them into a model that allows a systematic assessment of relevant psychodynamic dimensions in the diagnosis of psychotic disorders, and which serves as a guide to psychotherapy with psychotically ill patients. Joachim Küchenhoff reviews and integrates various psychoanalytic concepts and theories about psychosis into a multi-dimensional psychodynamic model that allows an assessment and understanding of the patient's subjective experience, objective psychological capabilities, and interpersonal resources. Küchenhoff helps the therapist to establish a basic attitude in working psychodynamically with patients and to understand the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship. Understanding Psychosis also addresses specific issues that can arise in work with clients experiencing psychosis, including understanding imminent crises or precursor states, elucidating semiotic qualities in seemingly negative symptoms, differentiating the psychotic and a non-psychotic part of the personality and providing a dynamic approach to the psychopharmacological treatment. Clinical vignettes and three detailed case reports are included in the book. Understanding Psychosis will be an essential guide for psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working with patients experiencing psychosis. It will also be of use to psychologists, and academics and students of psychotherapy, psychiatry and psychoanalysis for psychosis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Psychoses -- Case studies
Psychoanalysis -- Case studies
Psychoses.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychotic Disorders
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychoses.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018014233
ISBN 9781351025928
1351025929
9781351025942
1351025945
9781351025935
1351025937
9781351025911
1351025910
Other Titles Psychose. English