Archive | Schizophrenia

24 January 2012

The Drugs and Schizophrenia

The schizo-paranoid position and the depressive position

“There is no single cure for mental illnesses like schizophrenia, as there is no single explanation of the mechanisms that trigger a phenomenon such as delirium”. Some, perhaps out of time and reality, forgetting that phenomena such as hallucinations or manic are the product of the functioning of an organ, the brain, as did all [...]

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13 September 2011

Emotional Ties Between the Schizoid-paranoid and Depressive Position

Schizoid-paranoid and Depressive Position

In both cases (M and V) there is plenty of material for a discussion of Klein’s two key positions held by Melanie Klein fundamental fact: the schizo-paranoid position, and this exceeded the depressive position. Why say this? The feature perhaps more distinctive of M. and V. is to split both the external objects, that the [...]

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22 August 2011

The Childhood of the Schizophrenic

The Childhood of the Schizophrenic

We will now examine another category of cases, completely different: the psychological ones. The premise behind this category is that the adverse psychological factors would affect in a negative way the mind or the psyche of the individual to eventually lead to schizophrenia, in the meantime not to intervene compensating elements Accepting the existence of [...]

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