Equal to the Madness Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis
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Biografisk notat
Zachary Wheeler, PsyD is a clinical psychologist based in Los Angeles, California. Through his work at residential facilities and his private practice, Dr. Wheeler has treated numerous patients presenting with severe mental health disorders. His general therapeutic orientation is informed by contemporary psychoanalytic theory, particularly the work of Wilfred Bion. His primary interests are in the research, development, and teaching of psychotherapy for schizophrenia spectrum disorders as well as the psychotherapy of obsessive-compulsive disorder.In <i>Equal to the Madness</i>, Dr. Wheeler grapples with the challenges of working with clients experiencing psychosis. As of the most daunting (and most interesting) challenges for a psychotherapist, it requires an extensive theoretical knowledge, experience, flexibility, and courage. Combining classical theories with more modern approaches, his approach is eclectic and synthetic, and avoids most of the dogmatic pitfalls of other authors. Dr. Wheeler’s curiosity, dedication, and imagination help us to learn how to be equal to our madness.
- Louis Cozolino, professor of psychology, Pepperdine University,
Equal to the Madness: Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis is the first book of its kind to offer a semi-structured psychodynamic treatment for psychotic disorders. This volume addresses all the most important areas of treatment in one volume, providing clinicians with comprehensive theory and technique for working with psychotic patients. This book seeks to be didactic, practical, and applied, rather than only theoretical. It is written in a clear and concise for those who are just learning about the treatment of psychosis for the first time, but comprehensive enough to be helpful to more seasoned professionals. It is grounded in contemporary psychodynamic writing, with a strong focus on Bion’s seminal contributions to the treatment of psychotic states. It is an ideal textbook for graduate psychology courses, psychiatric facilities, analytic training programs, and clinicians in private practice. This book was researched using the innovative process of ‘distillation and matching,’ a means of selecting and identifying the common elements in treatment from diverse analytic literature spanning over one hundred years. The result is a synthesized approach to psychotherapy that is sufficiently organized, clear, and explicit so as to be useful as a treatment handbook, without impacting the clinician’s freedom and clinical judgment. The ultimate goal of this book is to condense, simplify, and streamline psychoanalytic thinking on psychosis into an easy-to-access treatment compendium.
Presented in a clear and comprehensive way, this book synthesizes a broad base of psychoanalytic research theory and technique into an innovative, flexibly structured treatment for schizophrenia.
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Introduction
Part I: Groundwork
Chapter 1: Narrativizing the Forgotten Catastrophe: A Subjective Etiology of Schizophrenia
Chapter 2: Bion’s Conception of Schizophrenia and Psychosis
Part II: Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis (CIP-P)
Chapter 3: Psychoanalytic Vertices for Diagnosing Psychosis and Schizophrenia
Chapter 4: Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis, Part I: Principles, Techniques, and Modifications
Chapter 5: Countertransference Intensive Psychotherapy for Psychosis, Part II: Initiating the Treatment
Chapter 6: Driven Crazy: The Varieties of Psychotic Countertransference
Part III: Psychotic Symptomatology: Psychodynamics and Clinical Approach
Chapter 7: The Relief of Having a Singly Story, Part I: Delusion Formation
Chapter 8: The Relief of Having a Singly Story, Part II: Common Delusional Themes and Principles of Treatment
Chapter 9: Sensory Blindness: Treatment of Hallucinatory Experience
Chapter 10: Afterthought Disorders, Part I: Syntax, Morphology, and Pragmatics of the Unconscious
Chapter 11: Afterthought Disorders, Part II: Linguistic Typology and Language Interventions
Chapter 12: Ego Castration: Treating Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia with Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Chapter 13: A Life of Quiet Desperation: Catatonia as Hypertrophy of the False Self
Chapter 14: Psychic Birth Defects as Foundation for Soma-Psychotic States
Chapter 15: Attacking the Link: Genital Mutilation and Psychotic Anti-Sexuality
Chapter 16: Dead Objects and Subject Relationships: The Origins of Disturbed Attention
Chapter 17: A Retreat from Madness: Autistic Phenomenology in the Schizophrenia Spectrum
Part IV: Working Through
Chapter 18: Major Conflicts, Tensions, and Subclinical Syndromes in Schizophrenia
Chapter 19: Slouching Toward Zero: Working with Proto-Affect and Emotional Deadness
Chapter 20: Stepping into a Dream: Working with Transference Psychosis
Chapter 21: Neophobia as Operative Influence in Forms of Psychotic Resistance
Chapter 22: Consummate Lies: Psychotic Defensive Conglomerations
Chapter 23: Regression as Anti-Growth in Schizophrenia
Chapter 24: Equal to the Madness: Course of Treatment and Working Through
References
Index
About the Author