This new collection of essays by distinguished international scholars and clinicians will revolutionise 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. 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.
Key Features
- Compelling Perspectives: Original insights from distinguished international scholars and clinicians.
- Fresh Views: New ways of working with phenomena often considered impermeable to clinical intervention.
- Variety of Manifestations: Covers a wide array of madness presentations with clinical case studies.
- Accessible Lacanian Ideas: Demonstrates the clinical and critical utility of Lacanian concepts.
Additional Information
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.
