Through a psychotherapeutic exploration of hallucinations, delusions and thought disorder, even the most hopeless and 'untreatable' patients have a chance for returning to a life of relationships. This title offers the hope of recovery, healing and cure for some of the most severe psychotic disturbances, schizophrenia and delusional disorder.

In this groundbreaking volume, Drs. David Garfield and Ira Steinman bring us into the immediacy of the analyst's consulting room in direct confrontation with the thought disorder, delusions and hallucinations of their patients grappling with psychosis. From the early days of psychoanalysis when Freud explicated the famous Schreber case, analysts of all persuasions have brought a variety of theories to bear on the problem of schizophrenia and the other psychoses. Here, as William Butler Yeats notes, -the center cannot hold- and any sense of self-esteem--positive feelings about oneself, a...