Lacan on madness : madness, yes you can't

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Label

Lacan on madness : madness, yes you can't

Title remainder

madness, yes you can't

Statement of responsibility

edited by Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler

Contributor

• Gherovici, Patricia
• Steinkoler, Manya

Subject

• Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
• Mental illness
• Psychoses

Language

eng

Summary

This new collection of essays by distinguished international scholars and clinicians will revolutionize your understanding of madness. Essential for those on both sides of the couch eager to make sense of the plethora of theories about madness available today, Lacan on Madness: Madness, Yes You Can't provides compelling and original perspectives following the work of Jacques Lacan. Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler suggest new ways of working with phenomena often considered impermeable to clinical intervention or discarded as meaningless. This book offers a fresh view on a wide variety of manifestations and presentations of madness, featuring clinical case studies, new theoretical developments in psychosis, and critical appraisal of artistic expressions of insanity. Lacan on Madness uncovers the logics of insanity while opening new possibilities of treatment and cure. Intervening in current debates about normalcy and pathology, causation and prognosis, the authors propose effective modalities of treatment, and challenge popular ideas of what constitutes a cure offering a reassessment of the positive and creative potential of madness. Gherovici and Steinkoler's book makes Lacanian ideas accessible by showing how they are both clinically and critically useful. It is invaluable reading for psychoanalysts, clinicians, academics, graduate students, and lay persons

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

362.2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BF109.L28

LC item number

L3176 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

• 2015 G-967
• WM 140