Psychosis: A Contemporary Introduction

Author(s) : Franco De Masi

Psychosis: A Contemporary Introduction

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 148
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98473
  • ISBN 13 : 9781041003731
  • ISBN 10 : 1041003730

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface; Premise

PART 1: Psychotic illness Introduction
1. Delusion
2. Hallucinations
3. Psychotic and non-psychotic part of personality
4. The invasive power of psychosis
5. The meaning of psychotic dreams
6. Psychic retreat
7. Sensory experience and psychosis
8. Loss of symbolic order

PART 2: Problems in therapy
9. The setting
10. Difficulty in therapy
11. How and whether to interpret
12. The psychotic superego
13. A long analytic therapy
14. Beyond symptoms

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