THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 13-25. This talk challenges the current assumption that psychiatric drugs work by correcting an underlying ‘chemical imbalance,’ or any other brain-based abnormality. An alternative, ‘drug-centred’ model of drug action will be out-lined that … Continue reading
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THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 27-39. Psychoanalysis is a practice launched by a neurologist, Sigmund Freud, based on the interpretation of dreams, products of every mental life which signify so madly that the normal and the pathological become … Continue reading
THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 41-52. Recent research does not support the pessimistic view of recovery outcomes in those receiving early intervention for psychosis. However the effectiveness of any intervention depends on the willingness of the patient to … Continue reading
THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 53-64. The Danish National Schizophrenia Project is used as a background for presenting some phenomenological characteristics of persons in psychotic states of mind, some psychoanalytic concepts grounded in the phenomenology of the psychotic … Continue reading
THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 65-73. The concept of lack in Lacanian theory leads to the Lacanian Real. How can the Real take the place of a conception of psychosis as a lack in the Symbolic, thought of … Continue reading
THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 75-79. Based on published research, the views of service users, as well as clinical experience, this paper critiques the concept of schizophrenia. It will highlight: the failure of the emergence of a biological … Continue reading