[Clinic and psychotherapy of psychosis]

Even though Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis share the idea that the basic characteristic of psychosis is a disorder of the relation with reality, the difference is that for psychoanalysis said relation is libidinal, which means that it is essentially based on the object relation. According to these grounds, psychoanalysis considers that psychotic symptoms make sense beyond the deficit and dysfunction, a meaning to be understood through the subject's history. This conception of reality, which includes both the external reality and the psychic one, also determines a specific psychotherapeutic approach as long as the purpose is not "verifying" the external reality, but containing and eventually analysing the psychic reality. There are clinical examples that show the primary failure in the relation with reality and the use of Projective Identification to be deposited into the therapist.