Self Psychology and Psychosis

David Garfield is Professor, Associate Chair for Psychotherapy and Director of Psychiatry Residency Training in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School. He graduated from UCSF School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry training at Harvard's Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He also finished his psychoanalytic training in 2006 at Chicago's Institute for Psychoanalysis and he is on their voluntary teaching faculty. He has written dozens of articles on psychotherapy and his book, 'Unbearable Affect: A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis' is in its second edition (Karnac Books, 2009). He has co-edited the book 'Beyond Medication' and he lectures internationally on psychosis. Ira Steinman has focused on schizophrenia for 45 years; his early training ranged from studying with R.D. Laing to working at the National Academy of Sciences' Drug Efficacy Study, which evaluated all the antipsychotic medications available at that time. For more than 35 years, he has pursued an out-patient psychiatric practice where he has been able to demonstrate that an intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy, in conjunction with the judicious use of antipsychotic medication, can help even the most lost and disturbed schizophrenic and delusional patients recover, heal and, at times, achieve a cure. With such an approach, some allegedly "untreatable" schizophrenics have been able to work their way off of antipsychotic medication. He has spoken on this subject at length on a local, statewide, national and international level for more than twenty five years. He is a member of the ISPS (International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and other Psychoses); the American Psychiatric Association; and the Northern California Psychiatric Association

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS PREFACE Coming to self psychologyINTRODUCTION Self psychology and psychosisPRELUDE AND ENTRE Cross modal attunement and revitalization of the selfPART I: MIRRORING CHAPTER ONE The opening phase - the case of Judith CHAPTER TWO Judith - the middle phase CHAPTER THREE Repair of the self - Judith CHAPTER FOUR The infrastructure of the vertical splitPART II: IDEALIZING CHAPTER FIVE Rachel - in need of an internal safe haven CHAPTER SIX Three rats and the extraterrestrial PART III: ALIKENESS (TWINSHIP) CHAPTER SEVEN Jonathan and the twinship transference CHAPTER EIGHT Selfobjects in psychosis - the twinship compensation CHAPTER NINE The widening scope of psychoanalysis: self psychology and psychosis REFERENCES INDEX