SPS Reading Group: Psychosis and Extreme States

When: First Wednesday of the month, starting November 5th, 5-6:3o p.m.

Facilitator: Nathan Lupo

Location: Online via Zoom

In anticipation of Dr. Fimiani's talk on February 7th, SPS is hosting a reading group to explore and discuss his book, "Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment" (available from Palgrave publishers).

Whether or not you are working with patients experiencing psychosis or extreme states, this book offers a rich practical and theoretical guide for clinical work, and offers novel ways of thinking about the body in psychoanalysis and the experience of clinical practice that may be applicable to work with a variety of patients.

From the back cover: "This book advances a new theory of transference in psychosis, with the aim of initiating changes to the way which the experience of psychosis is understood and clinically treated. It examines the function of ethics in the installation of transference in the treatment of psychosis and contends that the aim of the psychoanalytic experience is the creation of a new ethic for the analysand. Beginning from the premise that the body of the psychotic is a site of social contestation, the author draws upon the work of Freud, Lacan, and others to reframe the problem of the 'body' and its relation to transference and ethics."