Psychotic Organisation of the Personality: Psychoanalytic Keys

by Antonio Perez-Sanchez

The book is a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis as a particular organisation of the personality, based on 'psychotic personality' (Bion) and 'pathological organisations' (Steiner). The theoretical development is traced through Freud, Klein and Bion, along with contemporary Kleinian authors. An important role is granted to psychic pain as the cornerstone of psychopathology, and particularly to the psychotic patient's difficulties in dealing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782205683
• ISBN13: 9781782205685
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"