Book Announcement by Danielle Knafo (USA)
As a clear and user-friendly guide for clinicians who work with patients affected by psychosis, this book challenges the false notion that psychosis is untreatable through talk therapy.
Co-authors Danielle Knafo and Michael Selzer contend that since psychotic symptoms are features of survival adaptation, they naturally serve as a valuable source of information, providing clues about the origins of people’s psychic derailment along with a path to its cure. The authors advise therapists not only to read and respond to the messages embedded in the symptoms, but also to recognize and utilize the non-psychotic aspects of the patient in facilitating recovery. The overall aim is to recruit the patient as a collaborator in their treatment, thus wresting a meaningful and redemptive narrative from the psychotic experience.
Abundant with clinical examples, theoretical and technical points, and treatment methods, this Routledge volume covers all aspects and phases of treatment, from initial encounters through the middle phase to termination, and even supervision.
Danielle Knafo, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, a prolific author and a popular speaker. She is on the faculty of NYU’s and Adelphi’s Postgraduate Programs. She is a professor at LIU’s clinical psychology doctoral program, where she chaired a concentration in Serious Mental Illness for 22 years. She writes and lectures on many subjects, including creativity, trauma, psychosis, sexuality and gender, and technology. From Breakdown to Breakthrough is her tenth book. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan and Great Neck, NY.
Danielle Knafo, Ph.D.
Great Neck, New York, USA
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