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020 _a1855750759
060 _aWM 200.
100 1 _aJackson, Murray
245 1 0 _aUnimaginable storms :
_ba search for meaning in psychosis
260 _aLondon :
_bKarnac Books,
_c1994
300 _axx, 232 pages
505 _aParanoid 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.
520 _aA 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.
650 _aPsychotic Disorders
650 _aPsychotherapy
650 _aPsychoanalysis
_97581
690 _aPsychoses
700 1 _aWilliams, Paul
999 _c43401
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