Pattern of Madness

AvNeville Symington

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

Author of many respected psychoanalytic works including Narcissism: A New Theory, Emotion and Spirit, Making of a Psychotherapist and Spirit of Sanity, the distinguished psychoanalyst Neville Symington's latest book expands, refines and deepens what has become an ever more impressive, far-reaching and absorbing inquiry into the nature of madness and sanity.It is Symington's central contention that the core psychopathology of our times can be identified and designated as narcissism, although self-centredness, egoism or solipsism might serve equally well. Critical of psychiatry's mere symptomatology, and of much psychotherapeutic practice as superficial and sterile, the present volume probes compellingly into the narcissistic pattern in an effort to delineate its structure in all its complexity and thereby gain a measure of perspective and distance from this most intractable of psychic states.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-05-27
Mått:152 x 228 x 19 mm
Vikt:385 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781855752795

Utforska kategorier

Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Psykiatri inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Neville Symington is a member of the British and Australian Psychoanalytical Societies. His books include 'Narcissism: A New Theory', 'The Making of a Psychotherapist', 'A Pattern of Madness' and 'Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis' (all published by Karnac Books); 'The Analytic Experience', and 'The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion' (written with Joan Symington). He has a private psychoanalytic practice in New South Wales, Australia.

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'A bold and fascinating discourse on the inner structure of madness. Symington's analysis of the polarity between narcissism and emotional freedom is highly original, and the clinical vignettes are lucid and striking.'- Anne Alvarez, PhD. Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic

Innehållsförteckning

Preface , Introduction , The Pattern of Sanity , Ontology , Freedom , The person , Narcissism and the struggle for survival , Emotional action , The internalizing act , Roy Schafer’s action language , The Pattern of Madness , The jelly , God , Acts of God , The quality of attachment , The worm , Perversions , Trauma , Psychiatric diseases , Psychoanalytic schema of narcissism derived from psychiatry , The Subjective Experience , Human dilemmas , Guilt , Generation of perception and belief , Self-knowledge versus self-consciousness , Technique , Reverse perspective , Principles of action

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635 kr