Outpatient Treatment of Psychosis

David L. Downing, PsyD, ABPP, is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist. He is Professor of Psychology at the University of Indianapolis, School of Psychological Sciences. Author of many works, he also maintains a private practice in Illinois and Indiana, USA.Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP, is a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. He is Professor of Psychology and Psychoanalysis at Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto, and is the author of numerous works. He runs a mental health corporation in Ontario, Canada.

• Introduction , Conceptual Considerations , A proposed model for the outpatient treatment of psychosis in private practice settings , Outpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy with psychotics: managing isolation and creating safety , The Clinical Encounter , Working with psychosis: contextualising and integrating fragments of meaning , Rethinking psychosis: attachment, developmental trauma, and the psychotic spectrum , Soaking in madness: a Modern Psychoanalytic approach to treating psychosis , Treatment Populations and Contrasting Theoretical Models , The endless hunt and the edge of psychosis: the persecutory search for identity , An archetypal approach to treating combat post-traumatic stress disorder , Finding and being a self: schizoid phenomena in the psychoanalytic treatment of a transgendered adolescent , A Jungian approach to the interpretation and treatment of delusions in adolescence

"[T]his is an excellent book with an abundance of fine clinical writing that will expand any reader's thinking about psychosis. Hats off to the editors and contributors for addressing one of the more crying clinical needs of our time." - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association