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New symptoms and their psychoanalytic treatment
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 17x24cm
Pages: 314
ISBN: 9788859028819
Publication date: 01/01/2022
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This book investigates the new symptoms of our time and our civilization’s new discontents: anorexia, bulimia, substance abuse, depression and panic attacks. These symptoms should be considered like a new epidemics resulting from a new mass psychology that has changed the very notion of symptom.
The book contains essays that deal with these themes in a clear and absorbing style. The symptoms are not reduced to their psychopathological dimension, but are considered as elements of the structure of modern social bonds. Recommended to all those who want to gain a deeper understanding of today’s way of living.
Introduction • Brief summary of the essentials of the Clinica del vuoto (The Clinic of emptiness) • Anorexic-bulimic enjoyment • Contemporary depressions • The psychoanalytical clinic of addictions • Pathological addictions • The monosymptomatic group• The body in psychosomatic phenomena • Panic attacks • New adolescents and new families • The listening helpdesk in the adolescence clinic • Family treatment • Mediation and separation in new families • The psychoanalytical clinic of disability • The clinical use of psychiatric drugs
