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Author Fimiani, Bret, author

Title Psychosis and extreme states : an ethic for treatment / Bret Fimiani
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Palgrave Lacan series
Palgrave Lacan series.
Contents 1. Introduction: The Psychotic as Guide -- 2. The Body of the Psychotic -- 3. The Impasse of Transference in Psychosis -- 4. Dream-Work Versus Delusion -- 5. The Utility of Gilles Deleuzes Critique of Psychoanalysis -- 6. Toward a New Ethic -- 7. The Fear of Psychosis: Part I -- 8. The Fear of Psychosis: Part II -- 9. Bridging the Gap Between Psychotic and Non-Psychotic Experience
Summary This book advances a theory of transference-in-psychosis with the aim of provoking a change in the way the experience of psychosis is understood and thus, clinically treated. It examines the function of ethics in the installation of transference in the treatment of psychosis and contends that the aim of the psychoanalytic experience is the creation of a new ethic for the analysis and for the treatment. Beginning from the premise that the body of the psychotic is a site of social contestation, the author draws upon the work of Freud, Lacan, Deleuze & Guattari and Apollon to reframe the problem of the body (as an effect of language) and its relation to transference, and ethics, in treating psychosis. It argues that psychosis still has much to teach psychoanalysis about how psychoanalysis must continue to change in order to create/offer an approach that is effective for psychosis (versus neurosis) and provides a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory of psychosis that derives, at its core, from the experience of psychosis itself. The books synthesis of clinical and peer model principles will provide readers with a way to understand and navigate potential transference impasses often encountered with purely clinical approaches. In doing so it provides a valuable new framework for practitioners and scholars working in clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, critical theory, psychiatry and social work. Bret Fimiani is faculty, board member and psychoanalyst of the San Francisco Bay Area Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, USA, and a clinical psychologist. He works with people experiencing psychosis and extreme states in his private practice in Oakland, CA and at the Haight-Ashbury Integrated Care Center in San Francisco. His research interests include adapting the Lacanian analytic frame for the treatment of psychosis and extreme states
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 26, 2021)
Subject Psychoses -- Treatment
Psychoses -- Treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects
Transference (Psychology)
Psychotic Disorders -- therapy
Psychoses -- Treatment
Transference (Psychology)
Psicosi.
Transferència (Psicologia)
Psicoteràpia.
Genre/Form Llibres electrònics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030754402
3030754405