Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, students should be able to:1) Demonstrate an understanding of the cause of psychosis as indicated in the work of Freud and Lacan. 2) Demonstrate an understanding of the implications for practice and treatment of the formulations on psychosis by Freud and Lacan 3) Evaluate the rationale for psychoanalytic intervention in the treatment of psychosis 4) Show how Freud and Lacan used the Schreber and Wolf Man cases to throw further light on the theories of infantile sexuality, perversion, sexual identity, transference and obsessional neurosis