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Working with Psychosis
Authors:Paul Terry
Affiliation:1. Working Well Ltd. , London, UK gbraun@workingwell.uk.com
Abstract:This is the first of four papers about working with psychosis in a newly established post of psycho-analytic psychotherapist in an acute psychiatric unit in Australia. In this paper the author gives an account of some early impressions and experiences with staff and patients, particularly connected with an unacknowledged grief in the aftermath of psychosis. The author next discusses some of the psycho-analytic theory about psychosis which he found containing and helped make some sense of his experiences. He then introduces a case study of an exploratory psycho-analytic psychotherapy with a 40-year-old man suffering from a bi-polar disorder. The beginning of the therapy is described when this man revealed feelings of grief and despair about his illness. Being able to face and bear these feelings enabled him to begin to mourn what was irretrievably lost because of his illness and to contemplate what might still be possible. The author describes some of the early themes and one session in detail, and discusses how fluctuations in contact with the client reflect his retreat to a pathological organization in the mind. This psychic retreat was dominated by a psychotic process, and the retreat offered refuge from a dread of fragmentation and the pain of mourning and loss.
Keywords:Grief  Psychosis  Fragmentation  Loss  Suicide  Psychic Retreat
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