Treating Severe Depressive and Persecutory Anxiety States

Name: Treating Severe Depressive and Persecutory Anxiety States
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Provides the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist with a more flexible method of practicing psychoanalysis. This title examines specific groups of patients that present unique challenges to the psychoanalyst. > This book serves two purposes. First, it provides the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist with a more flexible method of practicing psychoanalysis. This is the clinical approach of \""analytic contact\"", a technical stance in which more patients can be reached in a deeper and more helpful manner. Analytic contact is an operationally robust Kleinian appro > Preface -- Introduction -- Combined Persecutory and Depressive Trauma -- Psychoanalysis as defined by the clinical situation: Establishing analytic contact with acutely troubled patients -- When suffering never ends: The internal experience of the paranoid and the depressive world colliding -- When patients face the dual threat of depressive and paranoid phantasies -- Unresolved depressive and paranoid phantasies: Certain cliny