Making Room for Madness in Mental Health: The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychotic Communication

by Marcus Evans

Overview

In this book, Marcus Evans makes a strong case for the importance of psychoanalytic supervision in mental health practice and its role in helping frontline staff to "tune in" to their patients' unconscious communications or the "psychotic wavelength".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782203292
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/12/2016
Series:	Tavistock Clinic Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Marcus Evans qualified as a psychiatric nurse in 1983 and went on to occupy nursing posts as charge nurse of St. Giles day hospital, clinical nurse specialist in Liaison psychiatry and parasuicide in Kings College hospital A&E, and clinical nurse specialist in psychotherapy at the Bethlem and Maudsley. After qualifying as a psychotherapist at the Tavistock he took up a post as head of the nursing discipline with a brief to develop the nursing discipline within the trust. He held the post of Head of Nursing until taking on the post of Associate Clinical Head of Complex Needs in 2011. Marcus has supervised, designed, developed, and taught outreach courses for front line mental health staff in various settings for the last twenty-five years in many mental health trusts including: Camden and Islington, The Bethlem and Maudsley, and Broadmoor. He was also one of the founding members of the Fitzjohns service at the Tavistock clinic. His passion is the application of psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic ideas to mental health settings.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface vii

Acknowledgements ix

About the Author xiii

Preface xv

Foreword xxi

Introduction 1

1 Theory in practice 23

2 Psychoanalytic supervision in mental health settings 41

3 Being driven mad: towards understanding borderline states 61

4 Pinned against the ropes: psychoanalytic understanding of patients with antisocial personality disorder 85

5 Tuning in to the psychotic wavelength 105

6 The role of psychoanalytic assessment in the management and care of a psychotic patient 123

7 Deliberate self-harm: "I don't have a problem dying, it's living I can't stand" 137

8 Anorexia: the silent assassin within 157

9 Hysteria: the erotic solution to psychological problems 177

Conclusion 197

References 205

Index 211