Psychosis and Near Psychosis : Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment

This study offers a psychoanalytically-based approach to an integrated treatment of psychosis and near psychosis, achieved by organizing psychotherapy, medication, hospital and milieu interventions into a powerful therapeutic tool.

The author navigates confidently between psychiatric and psychoanalytic approaches, between biological evidence and psychoanalytic approaches, and between biological evidence and psychological assessments.

He argues that, since the so-called heroic psychoanalyses of psychotic patients has been shown to fail, the time is now ripe to discuss psychosis in terms of the broadened psychoanalytic theory, with the support of medication and a better understanding of the neuropsychological factors involved.