On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis”

Gabriela Legorreta, PhD, is a member of the Montreal Psychoanalytic Society (French section of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society), as well as a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Montreal Psychoanalytic Institute and President Elect of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. She is former Chair and present Consultant of the IPA Publications Committee.Catalina Bronstein, MD, is a training and supervising analyst, and former president, of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She is a child and adolescent and adult psychoanalyst working at the Brent Adolescent Centre in London and in private practice, and is Visiting Professor at the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London.

“The essays in this thoughtfully constructed book open new and important vistas in our understanding of psychosis and the psychoses. These are certainly times that demand of psychoanalysis a return to the study of psychosis and the authors offer us an enlightening beginning to that task.” - Christopher Bollas, Psychoanalyst and writer, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society; The Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, and Honorary Member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is a member of ESGUT, the European Study Group of Unconscious Thought.“Contrary to other writings, Freud (1925) stated that ‘the treatment of psychotic patient can be useful for the formulation of new theories, and the transference in psychotic patients is not completely absent. Transference is often not entirely absent but can be used to a certain extent’. Your book will be a mandatory study for all psychoanalysis scholars. The chapters dedicated to the evolution of the concept of neurosis and psychosis in Freud’s work are of great theoretical and clinical richness.” - David Rosenfeld, training and supervising analyst, Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association; consultant professor, School of Medicine, Buenos Aires University; former Vice-President, International Psychoanalytic Association

• Series Editor’s ForwardFreud, S. (1924) “Neurosis and psychosis”Freud, S (1924) “The loss of reality in neurosis and psychosis”1.- Introduction By Catalina Bronstein and Gabriela Legorreta2.- The clinic of psychosis. By Altamirando Mates de Andrade3.- Reality and Pscyho (-Pathological) Organisation of the Personality By Antonio Pérez-Sánchez4.- Some Observations on the Relation to Reality and the Function of Belief in Schizophrenia By David Bell5.- “The negative in psychosis”By Marie-France Brunet6.- The Object of Psychosis By Paul Williams7.- Psychosis and Neurosis: What reality? By Dominique Scarfone8.- Possessiveness and its relation to some youthful folliesBy Carlos Moguillansky9.- Sensory perceptions as regulators of psychic realityBy Elisabeth Skale