Psychotic Organisation of the Personality: Psychoanalytic Keys

ISBN-13: 9781782205685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 274 str.

Antonio Perez-Sanchez

Opis

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.

O autorze

Antonio Perez-Sanchez is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a training and supervisor analyst of the Spanish Psychoanalytical Society and was its president (2008 to 2012). He is currently chair of the IPA Sponsoring Committee for the Portuguese Study Group NNP, and a member of the European team of the IPA Encyclopedic Dictionary. He has written papers on anxiety, envy, psychic truth, forgiveness and temporality, apart from other technical articles about psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He is the author of five books, written in Spanish, about psychotherapy and ending analysis. One of them has been translated into English (Interview and Indicator in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, London, Karnac Books, 2012) and Italian (2014).