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A major achievement from a major scholar....This book is an outstanding review of the highest quality Lacanian thinking. -- Peter Fonagy, University of London
The kind of book that can have transformational effects....the old ways... are replaced with a fresh new approach. -- PsycCRITIQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, John J. Derbort
This book will become a point of reference for both researchers and clinicians for years to come. -- Rik Loose, DBS School of Arts, Dublin
Verhaeghe creates pathways through the contested field of contemporary clinical diagnosis. The themes of this book are real and urgent. -- Bernard Burgoyne, Middlesex University
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About the Author
Paul Verhaeghe
Paul Verhaeghe is senior professor at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and head of the Department for Psychoanalysis and Counseling Psychology. He teaches clinical psychodiagnostics and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice as well. He is the author of Does the Woman Exist? (1999) and On Being Normal and Other Disorders (2004), which won the Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship, all available from Other Press.
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On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
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Paul Verhaeghe
4.13 · Rating details · 53 Ratings · 2 Reviews
Winner of the 2005 Goethe Award in Psychoanalytic Scholarship
The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships. Thus, the diagnosis of potential pathologies must also be founded on this relation. Given that the efficacy of all forms of treatment depends upon the therapeutic relation, a diagnostic of this sort has wide-ranging applications.
Paul Verhaeghe's critical evaluation of the contemporary DSM-diagnostic shows that the lack of reference to an updated governing metapsychology impinges on the therapeutic value of the DSM categories. In response to this problem, the author sketches out the foundations of such a metapsychology by combining a Freudo-Lacanian approach with contemporary empirical research. Close attention is paid to the processes of identity acquisition to show how the self and the Other are not two separate entities. Rather, subject formation is seen as a process in which both the subject's and the Other's identity, as well as the relationship between them, comes into being.
By engaging this new theoretical approach in a constant dialogue with the findings of contemporary research, this book provides a compass for the practical applications of such a differential diagnostic. Post-modern categories of anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorders are approached both through the well-known neurotic, psychotic, and perverse structures, as well as through the less familiar distinction between an actual pathology and a psychopathology. These two outlooks, which involve the role of language and the subject's relation to the Other, are spelled out to show their implications for treatment at every turn. (less)
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Published November 17th 2004 by Other Press (NY)
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On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
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1590510895 (ISBN13: 9781590510896)
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This book should be 10 stars. One of the best books out there on Psychoanalytic thought.
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Enjoyed Dr.Verhaeghe first book on mental illness exhibited in society in capitalist environment ; however this one is was a bit too heavy . Great book on the critique of psycho diagnostics of current methods and DSM ,
About the Author
Paul Verhaeghe
Paul Verhaeghe is senior professor at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and head of the Department for Psychoanalysis and Counseling Psychology. He teaches clinical psychodiagnostics and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice as well. He is the author of Does the Woman Exist? (1999) and On Being Normal and Other Disorders (2004), which won the Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship, all available from Other Press.
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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Other Press; 1 edition (November 17, 2004)
Language: English
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On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
by
Paul Verhaeghe
4.13 · Rating details · 53 Ratings · 2 Reviews
Winner of the 2005 Goethe Award in Psychoanalytic Scholarship
The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships. Thus, the diagnosis of potential pathologies must also be founded on this relation. Given that the efficacy of all forms of treatment depends upon the therapeutic relation, a diagnostic of this sort has wide-ranging applications.
Paul Verhaeghe's critical evaluation of the contemporary DSM-diagnostic shows that the lack of reference to an updated governing metapsychology impinges on the therapeutic value of the DSM categories. In response to this problem, the author sketches out the foundations of such a metapsychology by combining a Freudo-Lacanian approach with contemporary empirical research. Close attention is paid to the processes of identity acquisition to show how the self and the Other are not two separate entities. Rather, subject formation is seen as a process in which both the subject's and the Other's identity, as well as the relationship between them, comes into being.
By engaging this new theoretical approach in a constant dialogue with the findings of contemporary research, this book provides a compass for the practical applications of such a differential diagnostic. Post-modern categories of anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorders are approached both through the well-known neurotic, psychotic, and perverse structures, as well as through the less familiar distinction between an actual pathology and a psychopathology. These two outlooks, which involve the role of language and the subject's relation to the Other, are spelled out to show their implications for treatment at every turn. (less)
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Paperback, 528 pages
Published November 17th 2004 by Other Press (NY)
Original Title
On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics
ISBN
1590510895 (ISBN13: 9781590510896)
Edition Language
English
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Aug 22, 2012B.b. rated it it was amazing
This book should be 10 stars. One of the best books out there on Psychoanalytic thought.
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Aug 14, 2018Vikram X rated it liked it · review of another edition
Enjoyed Dr.Verhaeghe first book on mental illness exhibited in society in capitalist environment ; however this one is was a bit too heavy . Great book on the critique of psycho diagnostics of current methods and DSM ,
Unfortunately I could not get further than Metapsychology chapters for I found myself getting lost in the labyrinth of Lacan's mind ; Will be back when the time is right !
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5.0 out of 5 starsImportant Read in Psycho-diagnosticsFebruary 20, 2016
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An amazing work on psycho-diagnosis -- an alternative view which gets at the person vs. objectivist-universal checklist of DSM
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This was a gift for a budding psychologist working with the aging population. Go with it Allison, don't throw in the towel (and certainly don't forget it when you go hitchhiking).
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3.0 out of 5 starsInteresting ConfusionJune 27, 2006
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"On Being Normal and Other Disorders..." is in need of a good editor. I assume because of it is a translation as well as having such non-mainstream technical subject matter made editing impossible. That is unfortunate because the flow, logic, and structure has a very manic and almost psychotic quality as a result.
Notwithstanding the struggle with understanding the author's idea development, I thought the Lacanian view of psychological development was very interesting. It provided an interesting and potentially workable link between Freudian psychoanalysis and attachment theory. I am intrigued by the possibility of seeing if there is a link between Lacanian theory and Shore's brain development work.
Again, I wish it was more readable
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5.0 out of 5 starsREALLY TOP DRAWERApril 6, 2008
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A lucid introduction, exposition and development of key clinical psychoanalytic concepts in a field from which such things are conspicuously absent, offering a tangible metapsychological foundation for future praxis.
Welcome and indispensable. Chips away at the crypto-spectral shroud that so often obscures Lacan's revolutionary contribution to the Clinic.
This book has been my bedside and waiting room companion for some months.
V.'s insights into the spectrum of Panic/PTSD/Bordeline are particularly helpful, I think.
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Charlie Sandover
5.0 out of 5 starsThe bestOctober 12, 2004
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Psychoanalytic writing gets no better than this expert, clear interrogation and integration of Lacanian and attachment theory (particularly as articulated by Peter Fonagy). This book may serve as an introduction to both these areas of psychoanalytic investigation -- it is clear and simple enough that an interested, educated layman could find much here to make sense of. Beautiful -- a more artful, rigorous, and hope-inspiring version of Nancy McWilliams's "Psychoanalytic Diagnosis."
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5.0 out of 5 starsPV at his bestMay 25, 2014
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This was a gift for a budding psychologist working with the aging population. Go with it Allison, don't throw in the towel (and certainly don't forget it when you go hitchhiking).
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3.0 out of 5 starsInteresting ConfusionJune 27, 2006
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"On Being Normal and Other Disorders..." is in need of a good editor. I assume because of it is a translation as well as having such non-mainstream technical subject matter made editing impossible. That is unfortunate because the flow, logic, and structure has a very manic and almost psychotic quality as a result.
Notwithstanding the struggle with understanding the author's idea development, I thought the Lacanian view of psychological development was very interesting. It provided an interesting and potentially workable link between Freudian psychoanalysis and attachment theory. I am intrigued by the possibility of seeing if there is a link between Lacanian theory and Shore's brain development work.
Again, I wish it was more readable
6 people found this helpful
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narwal pupa W
5.0 out of 5 starsREALLY TOP DRAWERApril 6, 2008
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A lucid introduction, exposition and development of key clinical psychoanalytic concepts in a field from which such things are conspicuously absent, offering a tangible metapsychological foundation for future praxis.
Welcome and indispensable. Chips away at the crypto-spectral shroud that so often obscures Lacan's revolutionary contribution to the Clinic.
This book has been my bedside and waiting room companion for some months.
V.'s insights into the spectrum of Panic/PTSD/Bordeline are particularly helpful, I think.
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Charlie Sandover
5.0 out of 5 starsThe bestOctober 12, 2004
Format: Paperback
Psychoanalytic writing gets no better than this expert, clear interrogation and integration of Lacanian and attachment theory (particularly as articulated by Peter Fonagy). This book may serve as an introduction to both these areas of psychoanalytic investigation -- it is clear and simple enough that an interested, educated layman could find much here to make sense of. Beautiful -- a more artful, rigorous, and hope-inspiring version of Nancy McWilliams's "Psychoanalytic Diagnosis."
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