Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis proposes a major revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Michael Robbins…
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Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis
Psychoanalysis Meets Psychosis proposes a major revision of the psychoanalytic theory of the most severe mental illnesses including schizophrenia. Michael Robbins proposes instead that psychosis is the outcome of a different developmental pathway. Freud believed that psychosis is the consequence of a biologically determined inability to attain and sustain a normal or neurotic mental organization.
Conscious mind functions in two qualitatively different ways, primordial conscious mentation and reflective representational thought, and psychosis is the result of persistence of a primordial mental process, which is adaptive in infancy, in later situations in which it is neither appropriate nor adaptive.In Part I Robbins describes how the medical model of psychosis underlies the current approach of both psychiatry and psychoanalysis, despite the fact that neuroscience has