Unimaginable storms : a search for meaning in psychosis

By:

Jackson, Murray

Contributor(s):

Williams, Paul

Publication details: London : Karnac Books, 1994Description: xx, 232 pagesISBN:

1855750759

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WM 200.

Contents:

Paranoid schizophrenia : "the radio loves me" -- Schizophrenic self-burning : which self? -- Psychotic character : "a bit of an old rogue" -- Catatonia 1 : psychotic anorexia -- Catatonia 2 : imitation of Christ -- Manic-depressive psychosis -- The treatment setting -- Integration.

Summary: A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of psychosis. Compelling clinical material is reproduced to help illuminate the meaning of illnesses such as paranoid schizophrenia, catatonia, psychotic anorexia, and manic-depression. Several depth interviews by Murray Jackson, an authority on the application of psycho-analytic thought to the problems of psychosis are reproduced for the first time.

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Book	BEH-MHT Library Service Shelves	WM 200 JAC 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		BEH00415
Book	Hirson Library (St Helier) Shelves	WM 200 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003844
Book	Sally Howell Library (Epsom) Shelves	WM 200 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011492
Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves	WM 200 JAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	10/06/2024	SLAM000221
Book	Whipps Cross Library (Barts Health) Shelves	WM207 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		T02038

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A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of psychosis. Compelling clinical material is reproduced to help illuminate the meaning of illnesses such as paranoid schizophrenia, catatonia, psychotic anorexia, and manic-depression. Several depth interviews by Murray Jackson, an authority on the application of psycho-analytic thought to the problems of psychosis are reproduced for the first time.

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