Subtitle:
The meaning of psychotic episodes
Series Title:
The Jossey-Bass behavioral science series
Edition:
First
Place of Publication:
San Francisco, California
Publisher:
Jossey-Bass, Inc., Publishers
Copyright Date:
1976
ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
0875892973
Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)
Media Sub-type:
Book
Copy:
2
LoC Call Number:
RC 512 .P43 1976 c.2
Accession Number:
078548
Keyword Subject Headings:
Psychoses
Schizophrenia
Symbolism (Psychology)
Mythology
Rituals of renewal
Psychopathology
Schizophrenia
Symbolism (Psychology)
Mythology
Rituals of renewal
Psychopathology
User Notes:
Hardback, xii + 256 pp. including an appendix, notes, bibliography, and index.
Contents:
Preface
Introduction: In search of the roots of renewal
1. Healing factor is in the psychotic episode
2. Emotional development and the self-image
3. The chronically regressive personality
4. The acute psychotic regression
5. The ritual drama of renewal
The center
Death
The return to the beginnings
The clash of opposites
The reversal of opposites
Apotheosis
The union of opposites
New birth
The renewed society
The quadrated world
6. From monarch to Messiah
7. The renewal of the center
