Psychosis, with Bret Fimiani (pt. 1)

This episode discusses psychosis as a psychic structure and psychoanalytic work with experiences of psychosis and extreme states. It draws on Bret Fimiani's recent Psychosis and Extreme States - An Ethic for Treatment (Palgrave 2021) to distinguish a psychoanalytic approach to the experience of psychosis, and to explore the perspectives of the psychotic subject in analytic treatment and of the analyst sustaining transference with psychotic subjects.  Thanks to Omar Brown and Claire Tranchino for helping to edit this episode. 

Find Bret Fimiani’s work here:

Psychosis and Extreme States (2021) (Palgrave Lacan Series)

References mentioned in this episode:

The Schreber Case — Freud 

Hearing Voices Network

History Beyond Trauma — Francoise Davoine & Jean-Max Gaudillere 

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Read Penumbr(a), a new journal of psychoanalysis and modernity: penumbrajournal.org/