Unbearable Affect - 9780367105884

Taylor & Francis

Establishes a roadmap for the diagnosis and psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic disorders based on finding, understanding and reordering of unbearable affect, a path through the thick forest of psychotherapeutic theories and techniques to lead us on a journey of discovery. > In this cohesive, dramatic, and highly readable book, the author establishes a roadmap for the diagnosis and psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic disorders based on finding, understanding and reordering of unbearable affect. He provides concrete clinical advice, vivid examples, and crisp jargon-free descriptions of theoretical concepts and clinical techniques. Most of all, he demonstrates that it is possible for psychotic patients to take control of their conditions, rebuild family relationships, and establish themselves in the viable productive lives that they have long despaired of achieving. > ContentsSECTION I AFFECT DIAGNOSISSECTION II AFFECT THERAPEUTICSSECTION Ill A LIFE'S WORK: STAYING OUT S