Beschreibung:
Danielle Knafo, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with expertise in the treatment of psychosis. During her tenure as professor at LIU's Clinical Psychology Doctoral program for 22 years, she chaired a concentration on serious mental illness. She is faculty and supervisor at NYU's Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. She has written and lectured extensively on psychoanalysis, trauma, and psychosis.
As a clear and user-friendly guide for clinicians who work with patients affected by psychosis, this book challenges the false notion that psychosis is untreatable through talk therapy.
Foreword by Orna Ophir Introduction: From Breakdown to Breakthrough 1. Psychoanalysis meets Psychosis: Theory and Practice 2. Beginnings 3. Establishing a Pre-Alliance 4. Sample First Session: Psychosis and Cannabis 5. Outpatient Treatment with Psychosis: Managing Isolation and Creating Safety 6. "Don't Step on Tony!": Working with Psychotic Symptoms 7. Anybody Home? Working with Negative Symptoms 8. Alone in a Crowded Mind: When Psychosis Masks Loneliness 9. Coming Undone: Acute Decompensation and Creating a Narrative 10. Going Blind to See: A Case Study of Trauma, Regression, and Psychosis 11. Endings 12. Supervision