Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-496) and index.
Contents:
Diagnostics and discourse: Go and name the things? -- 1. Introduction: clinical psycho-diagnostics versus medical diagnostics -- 2. Categorical diagnostics vs. clinical praxis: a matter of impossibility -- 3. The impotence of epistemology -- 3.1. The object of psycho-diagnostics -- 3.2. Epistemological impotence: a constructive misunderstanding -- 3.3. From object to relationship -- 4. Know-how in clinical practice: doxa as the result of impotence and impossibility -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The medical-biological paradigm, or the wet dream of positive science -- 4.3. The moral treatment paradigm: to teach somebody mores -- 4.4. The analytic paradigm: promise and decay -- 5. Conclusion: the need for a metapsychology -- Metapsychology -- 6. Identity as a relational structure -- 7. Defense in double time: a linear model -- 8. From a linear to a circular model: on becoming a subject -- 9. Etiology and evolution: nature, nurture and the theory of the drive -- 10. Conclusion: the subject's position in relation to anxiety, guilt and depression -- Positions and structures of the subject -- 11. The actualpathological position: panic disorder and somatization -- 12. Between actual- and psychopathology: post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline -- 12.1 Post-traumatic stress disorders -- 12.2. Borderline: the actualpathological position in the neurotic structure -- 13. The psychopathological position of the subject: hysteria and obsessional neurosis -- 13.1 General: psychoneurosis as normal structure of the subject -- 13.2 The hysteric's relation towards the other and (a)/-m -- 13.3 The obsessional relation towards the other and (a)/-m -- Perverse structure versus perverse traits -- The psychotic structure of the subject -- Conclusion: diagnosis and treatment.
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