Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction -- Foreword -- The psychoanalytic approach to the treatment of psychotic patients -- Reflections on “meaning” and “meaninglessness” in post-Kleinian thought -- Rigidity and stability in a psychotic patient: some thoughts about obstacles to facing reality in psychotherapy -- Forms of “folie-a-deux” in the couple relationship -- Psychotic and depressive processes in couple functioning -- The Frozen Man: further reflections on glacial times -- Psychotic processes: a group perspective -- Psychotic processes in large groups -- A community meeting on an acute psychiatric ward: observation and commentaries -- Ward observation -- Commentary I -- Commentary II -- Commentary III -- Commentary IV -- Asylum and society -- Schizophrenia, meaninglessness, and professional stress -- Brilliant stupidity: madness in organizational life-a perspective from organizational consultancy -- The dynamics of containment