Obsessions: The Twisted Cruelty

ISBN-13: 9780367104276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 260 str.

Francesco Bisagni

Opis

This book explores the interrelatedness between obsessive compulsive disorders, thinking disorders, and depression. The issue is considered both from a psychiatric viewpoint and from a psychodynamic perspective. The age of the cases presented in the book ranges from childhood through adolescence to adulthood.

Spis treści

Foreword , Introduction , Theory: Models and Perspectives , Psychiatric contributions: classifications and treatments , Psychoanalyses: symptoms, structures, and contexts , The Psychotic Threshold: OCD and Thinking Disorder , Intersections , The case of Marcelino: early adoption and ongoing intrusion , Marco and Maria: OCD and developmental breakdown at puberty , Pharmaco-psychotherapy: the combined transference , Interlude: lie and obsession—variations on a folie à deux , The Anal Conundrum , Introduction to Part III , The arrogance of power: Pasolini’s Salò , Encopresis, obsessional control, and the development of sexual promiscuity , Anal stench: Alex and the gas of solitude , The Depressive Threshold , Introduction to Part IV , Sonia: the king-size coffin—Imprisonment 1 , Fabio: the right to be furious—Imprisonment 2

O autorze

Francesco Bisagni