On Being Normal and Other Disorders A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics

Name: On Being Normal and Other Disorders A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
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ISBN: 9781590510896

ISBN-10: 1590510895

ISBN-13: 9781590510896

Edition: 2004

Authors: Paul Verhaeghe

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 11/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.20" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.694

Paul Verhaeghe is Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Ghent in Belgium and is also in private practice. He is the author of 'Love in a Time of Loneliness' (1999) and 'Does the Woman Exist?' (1999).




Introduction : clinical psychodiagnostics versus medical diagnostics



Categorical diagnostics versus clinical praxis : a matter of impossibility



The impotence of epistemology



Know-how in clinical practice : doxa as the result of impotence and impossibility



Conclusion : the need for a metapsychology



Identity as a relational structure



Defense in double time : a linear model



From a linear to a circular model : on becoming a subject



Etiology and evolution : nature, nurture, and the theory of the drive



Conclusion : the subject's position in relation to anxiety, guilt, and depression



The actualpathological position : panic disorder and somatization



Between actualpathology and psychopathology : post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline



The psychopathological position of the subject : hysteria and obsessional neurosis



Perverse structure versus perverse traits



The psychotic structure of the subject


Conclusion : diagnosis and treatment