Psychotyczny „świat obok”. Psychoza jako sposób komunikacji ze światem
The Psychotic ”Next to World”. Psychosis as a Way of Communicating with the World

Summary/Abstract: The psychological “next to world” is the world of psychosis, a world parallel to surrounding reality. Persons suffering from psychosis often speak about the existence of “a second world”, which can be terrifying but also tempting. This is a world based on other principles than the ones of the world experienced on a daily basis. A description of that world is served by figures and symbols from the realm of culture – in the past these were mainly religious symbols, and at present they are the products of mass culture (such as the “world of Hogwart”). From the Freud era psychologists and psychiatrists tried to understand the narrations of their psychotic patents. Today, the attitude towards patients experiencing psychosis reveals two approaches. One is strictly biological and considers ”psychosis as an illness”, with all the consequences of this strictly medical method. The other regards psychosis to be a language that we may attempt to understand. The author of this text intends to demonstrate upon assorted examples the possibility of comprehending psychosis and the method of treating it based on dialogue and its Bakhtinesque “polyphonic quality”.

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