Outpatient Treatment of Psychosis

David L Downing, PsyD, ABPP, is a board-certified psychoanalyst and psychologist. He is Director of Graduate Programs in Psychology and Professor at the University of Indianapolis, School of Psychological Sciences. He is also a former Dean of the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago, as well as training and supervising psychoanalyst. He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytical psychotherapy, consultation, and supervision in both Chicago, Illinois and Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States. Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and psychologist. He is Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the Adler Graduate Professional School in Toronto and is the author of many works in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and psychology including seventeen books. In 2006, 2011, and 2013 he was recognized with a Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in New York City for his scholarship, received a Significant Contribution to Canadian Psychology Award in 2008, a Goethe Award for best book in 2013, and the Otto Weininger Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in 2015 by the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association. He runs a mental health corporation in Ontario, Canada.

Introduction , Conceptual Considerations , A proposed model for the outpatient treatment of psychosis in private practice settings , Outpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy with psychotics: managing isolation and creating safety , The Clinical Encounter , Working with psychosis: contextualising and integrating fragments of meaning , Rethinking psychosis: attachment, developmental trauma, and the psychotic spectrum , Soaking in madness: a Modern Psychoanalytic approach to treating psychosis , Treatment Populations and Contrasting Theoretical Models , The endless hunt and the edge of psychosis: the persecutory search for identity , An archetypal approach to treating combat post-traumatic stress disorder , Finding and being a self: schizoid phenomena in the psychoanalytic treatment of a transgendered adolescent , A Jungian approach to the interpretation and treatment of delusions in adolescence