Psychotic Organization of the Personality

Antonio Perez-Sanchez is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a training and supervisor analyst of the Spanish Psychoanalytical Society and was its president (2008 to 2012). He is currently chair of the IPA Sponsoring Committee for the Portuguese Study Group NNP, and a member of the European team of the IPA Encyclopedic Dictionary. He has written papers on anxiety, envy, psychic truth, forgiveness and temporality, apart from other technical articles about psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He is the author of five books, written in Spanish, about psychotherapy and ending analysis. One of them has been translated into English ('Interview and Indicator in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy', London, Karnac Books, 2012) and Italian (2014).

CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I.

THEORETICAL (AND CLINICAL) ASPECTS

CHAPTER ONE

Psychic pain, the psychotic part of the personality, and pathological organization

CHAPTER TWO

Communication and the psychotic part of the personality

CHAPTER THREE

Psychotic organization of the personality:

psychopathological dynamics and foundations

CHAPTER FOUR

Consequences of the dynamics of the Psychotic Organization of the Personality

CHAPTER FIVE

Symbolization in the Psychotic Organization of the Personality

CHAPTER SIX

Delusional Thought, mental Emptiness, and other clinical manifestations

CHAPTER SEVEN

Technical Aspects of Psychoanalysis in Patients with Psychotic Organization of the Personality

PART II

CLINICAL (AND THEORY)

CHAPTER EIGHT

The psychoanalytic method in a schizophrenic patient: beginning and analytical process (I). Psychic pain and transferential vertex

CHAPTER NINE

Vicissitudes of the psychoanalytical process (II):

Emergence from psychotic organization.

CHAPTER TEN

General discussion and conclusions

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