A Discourse for the Birds: An Adaptive Psychoanalytic Journey within the Public Psychiatric Service

This paper is an account of an entrée by psychoanalytic methodology and practice into the public psychiatric service in what is now HSE Dublin North at St. Francis Day Hospital Raheny, chiefly by referrring to a seminal case of intractable paranoia, the analysis of which lasted over three years leading to the acceptance of what has become a valuable contributor to psychiatric treatment within the Kilbarrack catchment area. ‘...If the doctor ‘says what there is’, if the doctor gives his diagnosis, it is indeed to give an adequate response.…