Breaking through Schizophrenia (eBook)

Wilfried Ver Eecke, PhD, is professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Philosophy and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology. He has been teaching there since 1967, the year after he had a postdoctoral year at Harvard University, where he studied with Erik Erikson.Ver Eecke edited, translated, and published eight books and close to one hundred articles. His publications have appeared in ten languages. Two of his books are translated into Chinese, and a third is in the process of being translated.

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Psychosocial and Linguistic Complexity of Human Beings as a Basis to Understand Schizophrenia and Psychosis 1 Toward a Philosophy of Psychosis 2 The Subjective Experience of the Person with Schizophrenia 3 Philosophical Questions about the Theory of Psychosis in the Early Lacan 4 Paternal Metaphor and Ordinary Psychosis 5 Theoretical and Therapeutic Implications of the Later Lacan’s Complex Theory of Psychosis 6 A Post-Lacanian View on Schizophrenia Part II: Hegel and Lacan on Mental Illness7 Hegel as Lacan’s Source for Necessity in Psychoanalytic Theory 8 Hegel and Lacan on Paranoia and the Question of How to Avoid the Dangers Inherent in Ideas of Social Reform Part III: Psychosis and Schizophrenia Are Illnesses Marked by a Defective Relationship to Language 9 Phenomenology, Linguistic Intentionality, Affectivity, and Villemoes’s New Therapy for Schizophrenics 10 Self-Referencing in the Language of the Severely Mentally IllPart IV: Lacan’s Concept of “Paternal Metaphor” Applied to Schreber and Hölderlin11 Reflections on the Concept of “Paternal Metaphor” at the Occasion of Lacan and Schatzman’s Analyses of Schreber12 The Concept of “A-Father,” or the Psychological Origin of Mental Breakdown in Schreber and Hölderlin Part V: Lacanian Reflections on Successful Talk Therapies with People Afflicted with Schizophrenia and Psychosis13 A Lacanian Interpretation of Karon’s Psychoanalytic Treatment of People Afflicted with Schizophrenia 14 On Villemoes’s Lacanian-Inspired Treatment Method of People Afflicted with Schizophrenia 15 On Prouty’s Successful Treatment Method for People Afflicted with SchizophreniaConclusion Bibliography IndexAbout the Author