Michael Selzer

As a clear and user-friendly guide for clinicians who work with patients affected by psychosis, this book challenges the false notion that psychosis is untreatable through talk therapy.The authors contend that since psychotic symptoms are features of survival adaptation, they naturally serve as a valuable source of information, providing clues about the origins of people's psychic derailment along with a path to its cure. The authors advise therapists not only to read and respond to the messages embedded in the symptoms, but also to recognize and utilise the non-psychotic aspects of the patient in facilitating recovery. The overall aim is to recruit the patient as a collaborator in their treatment, thus wresting a meaningful and redemptive narrative from the psychotic experience. All aspects and phases of treatment - from initial encounters through the middle phase to termination, and even supervision - are covered in this volume.Abundant with clinical examples, theoretical and technical points, and treatment methods, this book is essential reading for all psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and other mental health clinicians working with psychosis.

As a clear and user-friendly guide for clinicians who work with patients affected by psychosis, this book challenges the false notion that psychosis is untreatable through talk therapy.The authors contend that since psychotic symptoms are features of survival adaptation, they naturally serve as a valuable source of information, providing clues about the origins of people's psychic derailment along with a path to its cure. The authors advise therapists not only to read and respond to the messages embedded in the symptoms, but also to recognize and utilise the non-psychotic aspects of the patient in facilitating recovery. The overall aim is to recruit the patient as a collaborator in their treatment, thus wresting a meaningful and redemptive narrative from the psychotic experience. All aspects and phases of treatment - from initial encounters through the middle phase to termination, and even supervision - are covered in this volume.Abundant with clinical examples, theoretical and technical points, and treatment methods, this book is essential reading for all psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and other mental health clinicians working with psychosis.

Almost but not completely obscured in the Biblical text are passages that affirm the existence of a doctrine that God rules Israel and that therefore no mortal may do so. This doctrine - theomonarchism - runs counter to the fervent monarchism that prevailed when the Biblical text was finally set. Nevertheless, traces of its existence did survive there, though little attention is usually paid to them. In NOTES ON THEOMONARCHISM these traces are identified and the more notable among them analyzed.MICHAEL SELZER has an undergraduate degree in Semitic studies from the University of Oxford.

These reflections on the Nazi Holocaust open with the author's childhood in a prison camp and culminate in a short but profoundly disturbing visit to Berlin sixty-five years later. Although addressing many issues, Selzer focuses particularly on the problems of remembering the victims and their persecutors, taking as his starting point the Biblical injunction, "Remember what Amalek did to you". Many will find these reflections troubling, few will deny their profundity and importance.