Lacan on Madness: Madness, yes you can't

ISBN 10: 0415736153 / ISBN 13: 9780415736152

Published by Routledge, 2015

About this Item

Editor(s): Gherovici, Patricia; Steinkoler, Manya. Num Pages: 286 pages, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JMAF; JMP; MMJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544. . 2015. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lacan on Madness: Madness, yes you can't
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415736153
• ISBN 13: 9780415736152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This new collection of essays by distinguished international scholars and clinicians will revolutionize your understanding of madness. Essential for those on both sides of the couch eager to make sense of the plethora of theories about madness available today, Lacan on Madness: Madness, Yes You Can’t provides compelling and original perspectives following the work of Jacques Lacan.

Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler suggest new ways of working with phenomena often considered impermeable to clinical intervention or discarded as meaningless. This book offers a fresh view on a wide variety of manifestations and presentations of madness, featuring clinical case studies, new theoretical developments in psychosis, and critical appraisal of artistic expressions of insanity.

Lacan on Madness uncovers the logics of insanity while opening new possibilities of treatment and cure. Intervening in current debates about normalcy and pathology, causation and prognosis, the authors propose effective modalities of treatment, and challenge popular ideas of what constitutes a cure offering a reassessment of the positive and creative potential of madness. Gherovici and Steinkoler’s book makes Lacanian ideas accessible by showing how they are both clinically and critically useful. It is invaluable reading for psychoanalysts, clinicians, academics, graduate students, and lay persons.

About the Author

Patricia Gherovici is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press, 2003) winner of the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize, and Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge, 2010).

Manya Steinkoler is a psychoanalyst in formation at Après-Coup New York  and a professor in the Department of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College.