Finding a space to think and a way to talk

Author: Garelick Antony  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 0266-8734

Source: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Vol.25, Iss.1, 2011-03, pp. : 3-12

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Abstract

Mental mechanisms and issues of psychoanalytic technique in the treatment of psychotic states are explored and illustrated with clinical vignettes. The value of establishing a psychosis workshop to facilitate understanding and an appropriate language to communicate with the patient drawing on the work of Dr Richard Lucas and the author is described.