Collected Papers on Schizophrenia and Related Subjects

Harold F. Searles, M.D. (born 1918) is one of the pioneers of psychiatric medicine specialising in psychoanalytic treatments of schizophrenia. Arguably, Searles's work was largely ignored in the wider analytic community until the 1980s, when his radical views on the analyst's involvement through countertransference started to become more normative. Since then Jungians in particular have paid increasing attention to his work, linking his findings both to those of Jung and to the work of another maverick analyst, Robert Langs. Searles has also been associated with Donald W. Winnicott and Hans W. Loewald as psychoanalytic figures who all emphasised the importance of the part played in psychic development by the external environment.

'This collection of Dr. Searle's papers on schizophrenia is unquestionably the finest book on the subject yet published. Robert P. Knight, in his fine preface, notes that among Searle's attributes is a 'High degree of candor and personal humility.' This is an essential trait for anyone who, successful in treating schizophrenics, decides to write in order to help others make their way through the maze. The papers all feature a wealth of exactly appropriate clinical material.'- International Journal of Group Psychotherapy'These collected papers may be used as a textbook which delineates advanced techniques in the intensive psychotherapy of the schizophrenic patient. Experienced therapists will find that Searle's thoughtful discussions will deepen their understandings of their daily encounters with psychotic patients. Searle's research has fashioned new and useful forms for the data he has been able to uncover in his relationship with schizophrenic patients'.- Archives of General Psychiatry

• Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Data Concerning Certain Manifestations of Incorporation (1951) -- Concerning a Psychodynamic Function of Perplexity, Confusion, Suspicion, and Related Mental States (1952) -- Dependency Processes in the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia (1955) -- The Informational Value of the Supervisor's Emotional Experiences (1955) -- The Psychodynamics of Vengefulness (1956) -- The Schizophrenic's Vulnerability to the Therapist's Unconscious Processes (1958) -- Positive Feelings in the Relationship between the Schizophrenic and His Mother (1958) -- The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy-an Element in the Aetiology and Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia (1959) -- Oedipal Love in the Countertransference (1959) -- Integration and Differentiation in Schizophrenia (1959) -- Integration and Differentiation in Schizophrenia: An Over-All View (1959) -- The Evolution of the Mother Transference in Psychotherapy with the Schizophrenic Patient (1961) -- Schizophrenic Communication (1961) -- Sexual Processes in Schizophrenia (1961) -- Anxiety Concerning Change, as Seen in the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenic Patients-With Particular Reference to the Sense of Personal Identity (1961) -- The Sources of the Anxiety in Paranoid Schizophrenia (1961) -- Schizophrenia and the Inevitability of Death (1961) -- Phases of Patient-Therapist Interaction in the Psychotherapy of Chronic Schizophrenia (1961) -- The Differentiation between Concrete and Metaphorical Thinking in the Recovering Schizophrenic Patient (1962) -- Problems of Psycho-Analytic Supervision (1962) -- Scorn, Disillusionment and Adoration in the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia (1962) -- The Place of Neutral Therapist Responses in Psychotherapy with the Schizophrenic Patient (1963) -- Transference Psychosis in the Psychotherapy of Chronic Schizophrenia (1963) -- The Contributions of Family Treatment to the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia (1964) 1