Terms and Conditions: ‘Psychosis’ and Psychoanalytic Treatment

Psychoanalysis is a practice launched by a neurologist, Sigmund Freud[2], based on the interpretation of dreams, products of every mental life which signify so madly that the normal and the pathological become indistinguishable. With the work of the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan, psychoanalysis recognizes the human subject as a subject of the effects of the functioning of language. This requires that the practitioner in the field of the mental attend to the speech and language of a patient – one who is suffering a disturbance in their symbolization of their world.…