Geras ir svarbiausia paskaitomas intro į lakaniškąją psichoanalizę, kuris kartu yra ir neblogas argumentas prieš medikamentinį psichozės gydymą, kuriuo taip mėgstama remtis šiandien.
Na, ir aišku, visada smagu suvokti, jog ir pats esi kiek išprotėjęs, Tačiau, kaip teigia pats Leaderis, išprotėjimas yra visiškai normaliai suderinamas su kasdieniu gyvenimu problemos prasideda, kuomet einama iš proto, Aktuali ir vertinga knyga mūsų visuomenei,
Grammar nazi pastaba lietuviškam vertimui: pasirinkta autorių ir atvejų vardų ir pavardžių vertimo sistema yra tiesiog didingas "bardakas", Very interesting and informative about the way the mind works
Explains the way I feel
But strange that these psychoanalysts have no cure.
Their efforts seem to have no help for their patients at all, Excelent book. Thank you Darian Leader. Obrigado Vera Ribeiro pela tradução perfeita, Darian leader undertakes an exploration of nature of psychosis, what most would consider to be what madness is, It is an interesting attempt in which Leader, relying heavily on the work of Jacques Lacan, tries to give a psychoanalytical explanation of psychosis that will be comprehensible to the laymen.
That is, of course, an almost impossible task, which has much the same difficulty level as explaining quantum physics to the nonscientist, If you have a little background in Freud and Lacan, however, it is a good read, albeit at times it does overuse example stories where explanations might have been more appropriate.
Madness, in our culture, is defined by visibility, From the popular press to TV soaps and films, the depiction of madness always borders on the extreme: violent outbursts, fits, hallucinations, But what if madness is not exactly what we think it to be What if it is the rule rather than the exception And what if its defining features are not visible and dramatic but, on the contrary, highly discreet, shared by average citizens who will never come to psychiatric attention What if, in other words, there is a difference between being mad and going mad Beginning and ending with the case of Harold Shipman a massmurderer so apparently 'normal' that some of his patients said they would still be treated by him even after his conviction psychoanalyst Darian Leader explores the idea of discreet madness, and argues that it is only through revising our concept of what madness is that we will have the tools to help those who have gone mad to rebuild their lives.
Wat is waanzin Onbegrijpelijk wat er in het hoofd afspeelt van een persoon geconfronteerd met waanzin, Darian brilliantly explains the nature of psychosis, the cosmology of meaning and symbolism in any given individual, It touches on the difference between being mad and going mad, the first which is totally compatible with daily living until a specific trigger causes an outbreak.
It relies heavily on Lacanian psychology for most of the book, which I personally appreciated, It gets a little bit heavy at times, and I imagine to be difficult to read if one isn't familiar with traditional symbolism and psychoanalysis, but the examples at the end of the book, try to give specific cases on how pathology is created and manifested.
Certainly a useful and interesting book for anyone in the field of psychiatry, Lacancı psikanaliz perspektifinden oldukça açık biçimde konuyu ele alıyor, Günümüz psikiyatrisi üzerine çok önemli eleştirilere yer verilmiş, Psikoz deneyimi üzerine sağlıklı bilgi edinmek adına bir başucu kitabı olmuş, Çok beğendim. I this was useful background reading, but not being used to psychology books, I found the explanations through case histories voyeuristic and deeply saddening, As someone interested in Lacanian psychoanalysis, this book was perfect in its excesses of examples, If you have started reading Lacan like me, you will be invaded with many difficult concepts and initially relatively few examples,
Here, you will find the opposite : Darian Leader manages to use few Lacanian jargons and shows you the clinical and conceptual application of psychotic subjects.
The study of psychosis brought another aspect to understand neurotic "normal" people: You can see the contrast to the repressing neurotic subject by seeing the situations if some mechanisms did not go as intended.
" la gente puede "estar" loca sin "volverse" loca, " unlike many other reviewers, i quite like the farfetched lacanian psychoexploratory hypotheses, If youre in love with Freud and neofreudian theories on psychoanalysis, this
book is the one for you, The thing is, Freud was a sex obsessed femaleunfriendly man who gave too much weight to his own ideas and had some really good points mostly the unconscious, idea of therapy and figuring out individuals in stead of locking people up.
Many of his theories have been unproven of utterly discarded by scientific research and psychoanalysis is not evidence based, which are the reasons that the Dutch government has recently got rid of psychoanalysis in basic care insurance and Freud has about.
share in university studies psychology today, His ideas have led to mothers being accused of virtually every psychiatric disorder their children cope with, to tons of money spent on years of therapies in which patients got too talk excessively about their problems in stead of doing something about them and my own experience with a psychiatrist that was projecting HIS freudian ideas on me in stead of listening to what was really going on.
Which are all reasons why I got dissapointed in the book after three pages,
HOWEVER. Darian Leader has some really good points to discuss, Which are:
the overkill turn around in psychiatry nowadays in which patients get pills and get lost or/and there is NO time at all to discuss causes and inner experiences of people.
practictioners thinking they treat or help patients by normalizing them to societys standards, Some quirky ways may indeed be functional to an individual, people may deal with existential themes that transcend DSM categories greatly and for gods sake, the point of therapy is to helpt fragmented people become whole again, which can only be done by holistic treatment, not by treating one symptom at a time.
the focus on visible behavior, lists of visible behavior to be precise and getting people diagnosed by these extensive lists of mostly visible behaviours.
Id prefer the REAL dimensional thing with some traits or aspects such as neurotic, psychotic, hysteric, antisocial in stead ofdiagnoses that overlap and change every year.
Anyway, have not read the book really, Flipped through and read some good passages, If it would be a book diving into madness but with a critical view to whatever theory or type of therapy being in vogue, it would probably be a damn good book.
It is just that I cannot easily assess its value if beautiful insights get alternated by freudian misconceptions, Sorry Darian.
Kolay okunan bir kitap değil, aylarca elimde süründü, Darian Leader'ın psikotik bireylerle olan psikanaliz sürecine bakışı çok değişik: bireyi tanı kitaplarına kısıtlamayan bir noktadan baktığı için daha insancıl geliyor ancak uygulamalar noktasında hala kuşkularımın olduğunu inkar edemem.
Kitabın zor okunması da muhtemelen düşünmeye ve sorgulamaya itmesi sebebiyle bir çırpıda okunabilen, hap bilgilerin olduğu kitaplara benzememesi sebebiyle olsa gerek.
Psikanaliz ile ilgilenen klinisyenlere önerilebilecek bir kitap, Psikoloji okurları uzak dursun. : This book sets out to explain what madness, or psychosis these words are used interchangeably by the author, is, in a uniquely accessible way, Starting from rejection of multiplying diagnoses of the modern day and time, Leader asks questions about underlying structures of psyche as well as places of their possible breakdowns, and posits madness as a question of failure to integrate or interpret meaning.
He dedicates a fair share of the book to discussing “quiet”, everyday madness that has not erupted or potentially will never erupt and hence has not acquired a plethora of loud, noticeable symptoms.
Madness, he says, is usually compatible with “normal” life analysing, among others, the case of Harold Shipman, british serial killer, and understanding this helps us understand how to proceed and care for those, whose psychosis has been triggered.
Interestingly and contrary to general knowledge and common sense, Leader states that the noticeable, “loud“ symptoms of a triggered psychosis usually point to the attempts of psychotic subject to cure themselves, and not to the root of the illness.
The book is full of case studies and examples of direct speech something, Leader says, is missing from the majority of modern psychiatric literature or therapy reports.
Instead of seeing the therapist as a figure of authority, as an expert, who aims to provide their patient with onesizefitsall algorithmic treatment, he believes that patient and therapist must be working together, as colleagues, on mending the breakdown of meaning.
It was Lacan who said that therapists must be “secretaries to the insane”, And after reading this account of what madness is, I incline to agree on this with both Lacan and Leader, An interesting psychoanalytic account. Only for those with a backbone for Lacan, If you are already very interested in psychoanalytic theory then this book will be good for you, It's not an easy read and requires an acceptance of some of the most convoluted elements of psychoanalytic thinking to really get 'past go', The chapter on Shipman I found the most accessible and interesting, .