Ignatius of Loyola-knight and saint, mystic and ascetic, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)-was one of the greatest figures in Western Christianity. This book, written by a psychiatrist-psychoanalyst who is also a Jesuit, is the first work to investigate the inner life of Ignatius and to [...]
Demonstrates the workings of the paranoid process and therapeutic approaches to it for a wide variety of clinical syndromes, particularly the psychoses, borderline states and narcissistic disorders. Meissner also discusses clinical problems concerning adolescence, ageing, suicide and addiction.[...]