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Living on the Border: Psychotic Processes in the Individual, the Couple, and the Group

Editor : David Bell, Editor : Aleksandra Novakovic

Reviews and Endorsements

'A comprehensive exploration of some of the most puzzling and intransigent mental states that clinicians encounter ; “Ground breaking” is often an over-used and clichéd term, ...but in the case of this book, it constitutes a fair description, one most unusual in the professional literature hitherto.'
- Margot Waddell, author of Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality

'A wide ranging collection showing the immense value of a psychoanalytic approach to severe psychological disorder- Never could a need for a book like this be more urgent than at our current juncture.'
- John Steiner, author of Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organisations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients and Seeing and Being Seen: Emerging from a Psychic Retreat

Contents
The psychoanalytic approach to the treatment of psychotic patients - Hanna Segal
Reflections on “meaning” and “meaninglessness” in post-Kleinian thought - Margot Waddell
Rigidity and stability in a psychotic patient: some thoughts about obstacles to facing reality in psychotherapy - Margaret Rustin
Forms of “folie-à-deux” in the couple relationship - James Fisher
Psychotic and depressive processes in couple functioning - Francis Grier
The Frozen Man: further reflections on glacial times - Salomon Resnik
Psychotic processes: a group perspective - Aleksandra Novakovic
Psychotic processes in large groups - Caroline Garland
A community meeting on an acute psychiatric ward: observation and commentaries:
Ward observation: Commentary I - David Kennard; Commentary II - Julian Lousada; Commentary III - Mary Morgan; Commentary IV - Wilhelm Skogstad
Asylum and society - Elizabeth Bott Spillius
Schizophrenia, meaninglessness, and professional stress - R.D. Hinshelwood
Brilliant stupidity: madness in organizational life - a perspective from organizational consultancy - Tim Dartington
The dynamics of containment - David Bell