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This book examines the processes at issue in the onset of psychiatric disorders linked to stress in the workplace. Six clinical observations are presented: an acute psychosomatic decompensation (status asthmaticus); a delirious episode; a dementia-like confusional state; a sexuality disorder; two successive decompensations and a suicide.

Focuses on positive and life-enhancing emotions and attitudes. This book covers the realms such as: love, friendship, enthusiasm, courage, tact, resilience, and forgiveness, among others. It elucidates issues of development, adaptation, psychopathology, and analytic technique, as these pertain to the positive dimension of affective experience.

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Virtual Intimacy and Communication in Film brings together a group of psychoanalysts to explore, through film, the new forms of communication, mainly the internet, that enter more and more frequently the affective life of people, their intimacy and even the analytic room. The contributors, all practising psychoanalysts, analyse the potential surprising transformation the human relationships are going across, including psychoanalysis.