The Infantile Psychotic Self and Its Fate

Describes an approach to understanding and treating patients usually described as borderline or psychotic. The book focuses on these patients' fragile psychic cores, which have become saturated by unnameable bad effects that have been channelled through early experiences with the mother.

ISBN	1568213794	Pages	348
ISBN13	9781568213798 (What's this?)	Volumes	001
Publisher	Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers	Weight (grammes)	422
Imprint	Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers	Published in	Northvale NJ
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	210
Publication date	01 Mar 1995	Width (mm)	139
Library of Congress	RC512.V65	Spine width (mm)	25
DEWEY	618.8917	Academic level	Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY edition	DC20

	Foreword by David Rosenfeld
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction to Infantile and Adult Psychotic Selves	1
2	The Schizophrenic Symptom Complex in Classic Formulation and Structural Theory	13
3	Object Relations in Schizophrenia	25
4	The Infantile and the Adult Psychotic Selves: A Developmental Approach	45
5	A Reexamination of the Issue of Nature versus Nurture	63
6	Characteristics of the Adult Psychotic and Uninvaded Selves in Schizophrenia	73
7	The Fates of the Infantile Psychotic Self	85
8	True Transsexuals	99
9	Attis	115
10	Thirty-Seven Years with Attis	129
11	Treatment of the Psychotic Personality Organization	167
12	Dogman	175
13	Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Schizophrenics	205
14	Jane	239
	Coda	299
	References	301
	Index	323

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