Psychotic Organisation of the Personality

The book is a psychoanalytic understanding of psychosis as a particular organisation of the personality, based on ''psychotic personality'' (Bion) and ''pathological organisations'' (Steiner). The theoretical development is traced through Freud, Klein and Bion, along with contemporary Kleinian authors. An important role is granted to psychic pain as the cornerstone of psychopathology, and particul...