On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics

Today's postmodern categories of anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorders are approached in two ways: through...more

Today's postmodern categories of anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorders are approached in two ways: through the well-known neurotic, psychotic, and perverse structures, as well as through the less familiar distinction between an actual pathology and a psychopathology. Both being regarded as specific ways of approaching language and the relation to the Other, the author clearly spells out the implications for treatment at every turn.   less