A leading psychoanalyst shares his experiences working with schizophrenic patients to show how effective talk therapy can be as a treatment Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization.
He celebrates the courage of the children he has worked with and reminds us that the wisdom inherent in human beings-to turn to conversation with others When in distress-is the fundamental foundation of any cure for human conflict..
With tenderness, Bollas depicts Schizophrenia as an understandable way of responding to our precariousness in a highly unpredictable world.
He offers his interpretation of how Schizophrenia develops, typically in the teens, as an adaptation in the difficult transition to adulthood.
In this sensitive and evocative narrative, he draws on his personal experiences working with schizophrenics since the 1960\'s.
At a time When the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas asserts that schizophrenics can be helped by much more humane treatments, and that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if they have someone to talk to them regularly and for a sustained period, soon after their first breakdown.
A leading psychoanalyst shares his experiences working with schizophrenic patients to show how effective talk therapy can be as a treatment Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization
