"Searles' writing is a delight -- straightforward, with a minimum of jargon. The portraits of patients he draws are vivid, humorous, and compelling. His greatest contribution has been, perhaps, his illumination of the basic humanity of the patient and the common ground between patient and therapist. This volume represents the wisest and most humane of what contemporary psychoanalysis has to offer, exemplified in the work of one of its most original contemporary practitioners." -- Library Journal

This book contains a collection of papers on or relating to schizophrenia, reflecting the gradual evolution and development of Searles' ideas concerning the psychotherapeutic management of chronic schizophrenic disorders. It delineates advanced techniques in the intensive psychotherapy.

This book examines the key ordering—disordering processes of the psychotic self. It draws on Sigmund Freud, Jung, object relation and selfpsychologies, and, particularly, the work of Winnicott, Bion, and Elkin.

Knowledge is never static. It is always open to revolutionary thinking or to evolving development. Similarly an individual s knowledge is always moving, and indeed if the ability to think about ideas is lost, an important part of the individual is also lost. In this book, a collection of some of the papers and lectures written by Michael Jacobs over a period of thirty or more years, the author shows his own thinking at work, as he challenges himself to look deeper at some important aspects of his discipline principally psychodynamic psychotherapy, although always with reference to other forms of discourse such as literature and theology. Here the reader will find the writer behind those popular texts such as The Presenting Past, Psychodynamic Counselling in Action, and Shakespeare on the Couch.

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.