James O’Connor – A discourse for the Birds – An Adaptive Psychoanalytic Journey Within the Public Psychiatric Service at St Francis, Raheny

THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 81-91. This paper is an account of an entrée by psychoanalytic methodology and practice into the public psychiatric service in what is now HSE Dublin North at St. Francis Day Hospital Raheny, chiefly … Continue reading

Tom Dalzell – Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis – A Later Lacanian Critique of the 388 in Québec City

THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 93-102. This paper attempts to assess the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic illness at a publicly funded centre in Canada. This treatment ‘after Lacan’ is thought to amount to treating delusions with the patient’s … Continue reading

Patricia McCarthy – The Psychoanalytic Discourse Allows A Different Kind of Therapeutic Engagement in Psychosis

THE LETTER 55 & 56 Spring/Summer 2014, pages 103-118. For the psychiatrist, negative symptoms are viewed as a sign of mental illness marked by a symbolic deficit. Symbolic deficit flags the imperative of the Real and as such is viewed … Continue reading

Issue 54 (Autumn 2013)

EDITORIAL The publication of Cormac Gallagher’s translation of Guy Le Gaufey’s acclaimed book Lacan’s Notall: Logical Consistency, Clinical Consequences in four segments, reaches completion in the current issue of The Letter with the appearance of the third chapter, Some Clinical … Continue reading