This book examines the key ordering—disordering processes of the psychotic self. It draws on Sigmund Freud, Jung, object relation and selfpsychologies, and, particularly, the work of Winnicott, Bion, and Elkin.Preface -- The Core of Psychosis -- Hallucination -- Mindlessness -- Boundaries -- Hate -- Epistemology and Reversal -- Schreber and Rena -- The Psychotic Self -- Epilogue