Can psychoanalytic theory contribute to the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia?
A discontinuity between the study of the brain and study of the mind is discussed. Mental phenomena emerge from the level of individuals interacting through language. Mental life as based in interindividuality is nevertheless experienced solitary. Bion's notion of psychosis as a fantasy of omniscience taking over consciousness. Two clinical vignettes.
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Gaustad Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*