Beschreibung:
Current Lacanian ideas on psychosis have much to contribute to the complex and often surprising forms of psychotic symptomatology encountered in clinical practice. By focussing on the unique experience of individuals with psychosis, this book examines the centrality of body phenomena to both the onset and stabilisation of psychosis.
Introduction 1. Mild Psychosis, the Body and Ordinary Psychosis 2. Modern Psychiatry, Elementary Phenomena and the Lacanian Theory of Psychosis 3. Formations of the Unconscious, Actual Neurosis and Body Phenomena in Psychosis 4. Case Studies: the Onset of Psychosis, Body Phenomena and Stabilisation 5. The Onset of Psychosis, Body Phenomena and the Imaginary in Ordinary Psychosis 6. The Symptomatisation of the Body and Stabilisation in Ordinary Psychosis Conclusion