Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis: Attachment, Separation, and the Undifferentiated Unintegrated Mind

by Michael Robbins

Book Overview

Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis proposes a major revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Freud believed that psychosis is the consequence of a biologically determined inability to attain and sustain a normal or neurotic mental organization. Michael Robbins proposes instead that psychosis is the outcome of a different developmental pathway. Conscious mind functions in two qualitatively different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367191172
• ISBN13: 9780367191177
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"