Ordinary Psychosis and The Body

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Jonathan D. Redmond

   Pages 1-5

3. Mild Psychosis, the Body and Ordinary Psychosis

   • Jonathan D. Redmond

   Pages 6-30

4. Case Studies on Ordinary Psychosis and the Body

   • Jonathan D. Redmond

   Pages 31-52

5. Modern Psychiatry and Lacan’s Theory of Psychosis

   • Jonathan D. Redmond

   Pages 53-71

6. Competing Lacanian Views of Psychosis and the Body

   • Jonathan D. Redmond

   Pages 72-93

7. Revisiting the Body in the Onset of Psychosis

   • Jonathan D. Redmond

   Pages 94-114

8. Ordinary Psychosis, Stabilisation and the Body

   • Jonathan D. Redmond

   Pages 115-143

9. Afterword

   • Jonathan D. Redmond

   Pages 144-146

10. Back Matter

    Pages 147-166

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Current Lacanian ideas on psychosis have much to contribute to the complex and often surprising forms of psychotic symptomatology encountered in clinical practice. By focussing on the unique experience of individuals with psychosis, this book examines the centrality of body phenomena to both the onset and stabilisation of psychosis.

• Psychoanalysis
• Lacan
• mild psychosis
• body disturbances
• complex
• Encounter
• neurosis
• psychiatry
• psychosis
• The Unconscious

• Australian College of Applied Psychology, Melbourne, Australia

  Jonathan D. Redmond

Jonathan D. Redmond (PhD) is a Lecturer at the Australian College of Applied Psychology. He holds degrees in Communication and Cultural Studies, Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalytic Studies. He is the author of numerous articles on psychoanalytic theory.

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