The book emphasizes the critical role of psychoanalytic supervision in mental health care, arguing that it enables frontline staff to better understand and connect with patients' unconscious messages, often referred to as the "psychotic wavelength." Marcus Evans highlights how this approach enhances therapeutic relationships and improves patient outcomes by fostering deeper insights into the complexities of mental health communication.
Focusing on gender dysphoria, this book serves as a comprehensive guide for clinicians, offering insights into understanding, assessing, and treating individuals who identify as transgender. It also appeals to other professionals, parents, and those experiencing gender dysphoria. The inclusion of a foreword by Stephen B. Levine and a preface by David Bell adds credibility and context, enhancing its relevance to a broader audience interested in this critical topic.
This book demonstrates the use of psychoanalytic thinking in front-line mental health settings and aims to make an approach to working with emotional and mental disturbance available to a wide range of clinicians within psychiatric and other mental health settings. Rooted in the author’s extensive clinical experiences, the approach explored in this book applies psychoanalytic thinking and discusses this in relation to the mental health conditions regularly encountered in psychiatric settings, such as Schizophrenia, Manic Depression, Psychotic Depression, Anorexia, Deliberate Self Harm, and Personality Disorder. The book therefore provides valuable and practical ways of working with these difficult, complex, and problematic conditions. It further makes sense of the relationships and emotions encountered when working in these settings and introduces possibilities for more effective and rewarding ways of working, including a model of support through supervision, reflective practice, and clinical discussion. Illustrated by clinical examples from more than four decades of experience in the field, this book is ideal for the interested mental health practitioner.
