Psychosis

Part 1 Understanding: Learning to Think About Schizoid Thinking, Dr Murray Jackson; Manfred Bleuler and the Understanding of Psychosis, Dr Peter Borham; The Ubiquity of Psychotic Anxiety, Dr Robert Young; Schizophrenia: A Constructive Analogy or a Convenient Construct? Richard Marshall; Knowledge and its Pretenders, Dr David Bell; Murderousness in Relation to Psychotic Breakdown, Dr A Hyatt Williams; Schizophrenia: A Sacrifice that Fails, Eleanore Armstrong-Perlmon. Part II Treatment: Working with Psychotic Patients in Art Therapy, Katherine Killick; Psychotic Interventions at Arbours Crisis Centre, Dr Joseph Berke; Breaking and Entering in Phantasy and Fact, Dr Christopher Cordess; The Return from Mindlessness, Dr Kenneth Sanders; Dual Diagnosis: Psychotherapy with Individuals Mentally Ill/ Mentally Handicapped, Valerie Sinason; The Management of Projective Identification in the Analytic Treatment of a Borderline Psychotic Patient, Fakhry Davids.

The book is a timely and thoughtful contribution to psychotherapeutic work with people who have serious mental disorders... This book offers sustenance of a kind that will be welcome to the people who have found the courage to continue psychiatric work in difficult times and circumstances... The people who have contributed chapters have an impressive range of clinical experience.