"Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas shows that schizophrenics can be helped by much more humane treatments, and explains that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if they have someone to talk with them regularly and for a sustained period soon after they show signs of imminent breakdown ...
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"Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas shows that schizophrenics can be helped by much more humane treatments, and explains that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if they have someone to talk with them regularly and for a sustained period soon after they show signs of imminent breakdown. In this sensitive and evocative narrative, Bollas draws on his personal experiences working with schizophrenics since the 1960s. He offers his interpretation of how schizophrenia develops, typically in the teen years, as an adaptation during the difficult transition to adulthood."--
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It may be unfair for me to review this as I was unable to crawl past page 99. I'd really hoped to gain an understanding of psychoanalysis but this is the same convoluted gibberish I"ve read elsewhere. Lots of theory and anecdotal stories but no outcome studies. I believe Bollas has helped some people not helped by other means, and his compassion for them is obvious, but by his own admission relief comes after a couple years (at least) of 5X weekly sessions. Some of his patients don't speak for the first couple weeks and it appears he doesn't encourage them to, but waits until they're ready. No insurance will pay for that and few patients can afford to. Are the analysts working for free?!
75% of Bollas's bibliographical sources are at least 25 years old, one is 80 years old. Several of the more recent ones are his books.
Someone looking to understand what goes on in the mind of a psychotic person may find something useful here.
