Invasive Objects: Minds Under Siege

The "Director" controls Ms. B.s life. He flatters her, beguiles her, derides her. His instructions pervade each aspect of her life, including her analytic sessions, during which he suggests promiscuous and dangerous things for Ms. B to say and do, when he suspects that her isolated state is being changed by the therapy. The "Director" is a diabolical foreign body installed in the mind who purports to protect but who keeps Ms. B feeling profoundly ill and alone. Whether engaging in the coconstructed therapeutic relationship or the implications for "madness in society" at large, Williams. diverse influences . psychoanalytic and otherwise . repeatedly come to the fore in an intellectually stimulating and clinically enriching way. It goes without saying that work with patients whose thinking is psychotic is a challenge, as these papers clearly demonstrate, but Williams reminds us that it is a challenge that psychoanalysis can not only engage but also treat with enduring and impressive therapeutic results.

Pages: 272

Series: Relational Perspectives Book Series

Edition: 01

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Incorporated

Copyright: 2010

Published: 02/10