This book discusses the work that the author has undertaken over the last twenty-five years, as well as the work of generations of mental health practitioners over the last one hundred years, which demonstrates that broken attachments, and in particular a type of attachment that the author refers to as the "infanticidal attachment", may play a pivotal role in the development of the schizophrenic psychoses.The Infanticidal Origins of Psychosis: The Role of Trauma in Schizophrenia includes chapters such as "The Ravages of Schizophrenia", "The Aetiology of Schizophrenia", "Theories of Biopathogenesis" and "Schizophrenia and the Holocaust".

Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. He developed revolutionary ideas about the unconscious mind, repression and the meaning of dreams and the clinical method of treatment through dialogue. Here you will find insights from his greatest works.The School of Life series takes a great thinker and highlights those ideas most relevant to ordinary, everyday dilemmas. These books emphasize ways in which wise voices from the past have urgently important and inspiring things to tell us.

Estela Welldon brings together a generous selection derived from her many literary gems, in which she illustrates her groundbreaking—and sometimes explosive—studies of female sexuality and perversions, perverse transference, malignant bonding, perverse motherhood, and the impact upon children of viewing domestic violence. Along with these are vivid descriptions of group analytic psychotherapy with forensic patients and, uniquely, of the joint group treatment of incest survivors and perpetrators. She also outlines the development of forensic psychotherapy as a new field of clinical and academic endeavor and her involvement in this. In a series of interviews with Brett Kahr she describes her professional journey, from being trained by Horacio Etchegoyen in her native Argentina, followed by an eye-opening period at the Menninger Clinic, then eventually to London and a distinguished career at the Portman Clinic.