This book demonstrates the use of psychoanalytic thinking in front-line mental health settings and aims to make an approach to working with emotional and mental disturbance available to a wide range of clinicians within psychiatric and other mental health settings. Rooted in the author’s extensive clinical experiences, the approach explored in this book applies psychoanalytic thinking and discusses this in relation to the mental health conditions regularly encountered in psychiatric settings.
Key Features
- Valuable and practical ways of working with difficult, complex, and problematic conditions.
- Explores relationships and emotions encountered in mental health settings.
- Introduces a model of support through supervision, reflective practice, and clinical discussion.
- Illustrated by clinical examples from more than four decades of experience.
Additional Information
This book discusses mental health conditions such as Schizophrenia, Manic Depression, Psychotic Depression, Anorexia, Deliberate Self Harm, and Personality Disorder. It is ideal for the interested mental health practitioner.
