Lacanian Psychoanalysis - 9780367027124

Taylor & Francis

Lacanian PsychoanalysisA Clinical Casebook\nAuthor(s): Danile Brillaud, John Holland\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367027124, 978-0367027124\nSynopsis\nIn this important work, Danile Brillaud provides an illuminating exploration of major concepts in Jacques Lacans notoriously difficult writings, the crits. To illustrate the theory, she discusses clinical cases and examples from the treatment of patients with a wide range of psychiatric disorders.\n\nThis book is intended as an introduction to Lacanian theory and practice. Concrete examples show the interdependence of clinical work and conceptual formalisation in Lacans reading of Freud. A spectrum of disorders and clinical issues is presented, including delusional misidentification syndromes, paranoid psychosis and schizophrenia, hypochondria, Cotard delusion, fetishism, the differential diagnosis of neurosis and psychosis, and more. Brillaud highlights the ro.