This book demonstrates the use of psychoanalytic thinking in front-line mental health settings and aims to make an approach to working with emotional and mental disturbance available to a wide range of clinicians within psychiatric and other mental health settings.

Rooted in the author's extensive clinical experiences, the approach explored in this book applies psychoanalytic thinking and discusses this in relation to the mental health conditions regularly encountered in psychiatric settings, such as Schizophrenia, Manic Depression, Psychotic Depression, Anorexia, Deliberate Self Harm, and Personality Disorder. The book therefore provides valuable and practical ways of working with these difficult, complex, and problematic conditions. It further makes sense of the relationships and emotions encountered when working in these settings and introduces possibilities for more effective and rewarding ways of working, including a model of support through supervision, reflective practice, and clinical discussion.

Illustrated by clinical examples from more than four decades of experience in the field, this book is ideal for the interested mental health practitioner.

About the Author

Marcus Evans is a psychoanalyst and former consultant psychotherapist at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. After qualifying there as a psychotherapist, he was appointed Head of Nursing and subsequently Associate Clinical Director of the Adult & Adolescent Departments, 2011-2015. He has given outreach courses to front-line staff in several Mental Health Trusts, including Camden and Islington, the Bethlem and Maudsley, and Broadmoor. His other book, Making Room for Madness in Mental Health, was published by Routledge in 2016.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367567361
Author Marcus Evans
Format Hardback
Page Count 156
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 450g