Mental shelters. Pathological organizations in psychotic, neurotic and border patients. Stainer J.

“Mental Shelters” are mental states in which patients hide, hiding from anxiety and mental pain. At the same time, the patient’s life becomes sharply limited and the treatment process “gets stuck”. Addressing his book to a practitioner psychoanalyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, John Stayner uses new achievements of Kleanian psychoanalysis, allowing analysts to realize the problems of the treatment of seriously ill patients. The author studies the device of mental shelters and, using a thorough clinical material, explores the possibilities of the analyst in the treatment of patients who have left reality.