Foreword by Bertram P. Karon, PhD, ABPP Introduction Part I: Psycho-Social and Linguistic Complexity of Human Beings as a Basis to Understand Schizophrenia and Psychosis Chapter 1: Towards a Philosophy of Psychosis Chapter 2: The Subjective Experience of the Person with Schizophrenia Chapter 3: Philosophical Questions about the Theory of Psychosis in the Early Lacan Chapter 4: Paternal Metaphor and Ordinary Psychosis Chapter 5: Theoretical and Therapeutic Implications of the Later Lacan's Complex Theory of Psychosis Chapter 6: A Post-Lacanian View on Schizophrenia Part II: Hegel and Lacan on Mental Illness Chapter 7: Hegel as Lacan's Source for Necessity in Psychoanalytic Theory Chapter 8: Hegel and Lacan on Paranoia and the Question of How to Avoid the Dangers Inherent in Ideas of Social Reform Part III: Psychosis and Schizophrenia are Illnesses Marked by a Defective Relationships to Language Chapter 9: Phenomenology, Linguistic Intentionality, Affectivity and Villemoes' New Therapy for Schizophrenics Chapter 10: Self-referencing in the Language of the Severely Mentally Ill Part IV: Lacan's Concept of "Paternal Metaphor" Applied to Schreber and Hoelderlin Chapter 11: Reflections on the Concept of "Paternal Metaphor" at the Occasion of Lacan's and Schatzman's analyses of Schreber Chapter 12: The Concept of "A-Father" or the Psychological Origin of Mental Breakdown in Schreber and Hoelderlin Part V: Lacanian Reflections on Successful Talk Therapies with Persons Afflicted with Schizophrenia or Psychosis. Chapter 13: A Lacanian Interpretation of Karon's Psychoanalytic Treatment of Persons Afflicted with Schizophrenia Chapter 14: On Villemoes' Lacanian Inspired Treatment Method of Persons Afflicted with Schizophrenia Chapter 15: On Prouty's Successful Treatment Method for Persons Afflicted with Schizophrenia Conclusion
