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A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of
the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated
with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care
anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of
psychosis. Compelling clinical material is reproduced to help
illuminate the meaning of illnesses such as paranoid schizophrenia,
catatonia, psychotic anorexia and manic-depression. Several depth
interviews by the author, an authority on the application of
psycho-analytic thought to the problems of psychosis are reproduced
for the first time.
Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the
story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals:
Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, Jose Saramago and John Nash.
Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a
contextual framework by Jeanne Magagna, revealing the wellspring of
creativity in the subjects' emotional experiences and delving into
the nature of psychotic states which influence and impede the
creative process. Jackson and Magagna aim to illustrate how
psychoanalytic thinking can be relevant to people suffering from
psychotic states of mind and provide understanding of the
personalities of four exceptionally talented creative individuals.
Present in the text are themes of loving and losing, mourning and
manic states, creating as a process of repairing a sense of
internal damage and the use of creativity to understand or run away
from oneself. The book concludes with a glossary of useful
psychoanalytic concepts. Creativity and Psychotic States in
Exceptional People will be fascinating reading for psychiatrists,
psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, other psychoanalytically
informed professionals, students and anyone interested in the
relationship between creativity and psychosis.
This book focuses on the study and treatment of patients with
psychotic illnesses. It draws on Kleinian concepts and Scandinavian
clinical experience to show how a psychotherapeutic approach can,
through a combination of empathy and sound theory, stabilise,
contain, integrate and tame the psychosis.
In a series of fascinating supervisory case studies Jackson draws
on Kleinian concepts and Scandinavian clinical experience to show
how a psychotherapeutic approach can, through a combination of
empathy and sound theory, stabilise, contain, integrate and tame
the unnamable terrors and compulsions of psychosis. Jackson's
courage, modesty and total integrity shine through. Jeremy Holmes
MD, University of Exeter.
A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of
the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated
with an integrated combination of psychiatric and psychological
care anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of
psychosis. Compelling clinical material is reproduced to help
illuminate the meaning of illnesses such as paranoid schizophrenia,
catatonia, psychotic anorexia and manic-depression. Several depth
interviews by Murray Jackson, an authority on the application of
psycho-analytic thought to the problems of psychosis, are
reproduced for the first time.
Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the
story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals:
Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, Jose Saramago and John Nash.
Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a
contextual framework by Jeanne Magagna, revealing the wellspring of
creativity in the subjects' emotional experiences and delving into
the nature of psychotic states which influence and impede the
creative process. Jackson and Magagna aim to illustrate how
psychoanalytic thinking can be relevant to people suffering from
psychotic states of mind and provide understanding of the
personalities of four exceptionally talented creative individuals.
Present in the text are themes of loving and losing, mourning and
manic states, creating as a process of repairing a sense of
internal damage and the use of creativity to understand or run away
from oneself. The book concludes with a glossary of useful
psychoanalytic concepts. Creativity and Psychotic States in
Exceptional People will be fascinating reading for psychiatrists,
psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, other psychoanalytically
informed professionals, students and anyone interested in the
relationship between creativity and psychosis.
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