Unbearable Affect: A Guide to the Psychotherapy of Psychosis

by David A.S. Garfield

In this cohesive, dramatic, and highly readable book, David Garfield establishes a roadmap for the diagnosis and psychotherapeutic treatment of psychotic disorders based on finding, understanding and reordering of unbearable affect. He provides concrete clinical advice, vivid examples, and crisp jargon-free descriptions of theoretical concepts and clinical techniques. Most of all, he demonstrates that it is possible for psychotic patients to take control of their conditions, rebuild family relationships, and establish themselves in the viable productive lives that they have long despaired of achieving.

Genres: Psychology

230 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 10, 1995

About the author

David Garfield, MD, is Professor, Associate Chair for Psychotherapy, and the Director of Chicago Medical School Psychiatry Residency Training Program, at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (Chicago, IL).