Unimaginable Storms

Download or read book Unimaginable Storms written by Murray Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.