This presentation was a session at the ISPS-US 2022 National Conference in Sacramento, CA. Thank you to our sponsors The California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University: [ Ссылка ]

The International Society for Psychological & Social Approaches (ISPS-US) promotes psychological and social approaches to states of mind often called "psychosis" in treatment, education, and advocacy through collaborations between service providers, experts by experience, and family members. Join ISPS-US as a member by visiting www.isps-us.org

Session Description:
We will begin with a definition of “What is Psychosis?” from a medical and psychiatric perspective. We will then proceed to understand psychosis and paranoia from various psychoanalytic perspectives, starting from Freud and proceeding to contemporary social-psychodynamic-psychoanalytic perspectives . Psychoanalytic theorists and their contributions which I have found very helpful will be discussed and may include DW Winnicott (British Object Relations & Independent group); Harry Stack Sullivan, Silvano Arieti, Harold Searles, and Ann-Louise Silver (Interpersonal Psychoanalysis); Hanna Segal, Herbert Rosenfeld, and Richard Lucas (Post-Kleinian Psychoanalysis); Gaetano Benedetti, Martti Siirala and Maurizio Peciccia (Humanistic-Existential Psychoanalysis); Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière (Contemporary Lacanian and Social Psychoanalysis); David Garfield and Ira Steinman (Self-Psychology and Intersubjectivity); Philip Bromberg and Brian Koehler (Relational -Social Psychoanalysis ).

Psychodynamic approaches are just one more set of maps, in addition to others, such as Open Dialogue, Hearing Voices Network, Peer-Support, Compassion Mind Therapy , CBTp, etc., being invoked to help ease the suffering of persons with distressing voices and beliefs, traumas, social exclusion and loneliness. There is no one map that is fundamental to every person. Persons should have the opportunity to choose whatever maps are helpful to them.

About the Presenter:
Brian Koehler, PhD is a psychologist-psychoanalyst, and graduate faculty at NYU & CUNY.
He is Associate Editor of the ISPS journal, past president of ISPS-US & past EC member of ISPS. He was a reviewer for Schizophrenia Bulletin & other journals. He has published many articles & has been in private practice for over 30 years.

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