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- Seminars in the Psychotherapies
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in the Psychotherapies
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Therapy Theory and Practice
- Part II Applied Psychotherapeutic Thinking
- Section 1 Psychological and Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry
- Section 2 Work in Practice
- Chapter 21 The Effect on Staff and Organisations of Working with Patients with Psychotic Illness
- Chapter 22 Introduction to Organisational Dynamics
- Chapter 23 Reflective Practice and Its Central Place in Mental Health Care
- Chapter 24 Working Psychotherapeutically with Children
- Chapter 25 Therapeutic Communities
- Section 3 Contemporary Developments
- Index
- References
Chapter 21 - The Effect on Staff and Organisations of Working with Patients with Psychotic Illness
from Section 2 - Work in Practice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
- Seminars in the Psychotherapies
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in the Psychotherapies
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Therapy Theory and Practice
- Part II Applied Psychotherapeutic Thinking
- Section 1 Psychological and Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry
- Section 2 Work in Practice
- Chapter 21 The Effect on Staff and Organisations of Working with Patients with Psychotic Illness
- Chapter 22 Introduction to Organisational Dynamics
- Chapter 23 Reflective Practice and Its Central Place in Mental Health Care
- Chapter 24 Working Psychotherapeutically with Children
- Chapter 25 Therapeutic Communities
- Section 3 Contemporary Developments
- Index
- References
Summary
Clinical work with patients who have psychotic illness is rewarding; however, it is also psychologically demanding. The more challenging side of this work is not often emphasised in routine psychiatric practice. There are powerful unconscious processes present in psychosis that have strong countertransference effects that need to be understood and worked with.
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- Seminars in the Psychotherapies , pp. 273 - 284Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021